Terms of Service

Purpose and scope

MENTOR is operated by Gosu Choi and helps users understand only the code they need by generating repository-aware code tours and follow-up answers from code context, diffs, and user instructions.

By creating an account, signing in, connecting the VS Code extension, or using any MENTOR feature, you agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy posted on the service.

Questions about these Terms or the service may be sent to contact@ai-code-mentor.com.

Accounts, eligibility, and sign-up

MENTOR uses Google OAuth to identify users. For new users, account creation is completed only after the user reviews and accepts the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

You are responsible for keeping your Google account and connected development environment secure. If you use MENTOR for an organization or a third-party repository, you must have authority to submit that repository and related code context to MENTOR.

MENTOR may refuse, suspend, or revoke access when needed to protect the service, enforce these Terms, respond to security issues, or prevent misuse.

Service features and repository processing

The service can register repositories, receive selected comparison information, analyze code context, generate guided tours, answer follow-up questions, and show account or credit usage information.

For public repositories, MENTOR may use the public clone URL to prepare server-side analysis. For private repositories, the VS Code extension may push Git objects or selected analysis context to a server-side repository cache so the backend can generate explanations.

Repository cache deletion and account-management tools may be offered in the product. Deleting a cache can limit or stop repository-aware features until the repository is registered or synchronized again.

Credits and usage limits

MENTOR uses credits as internal usage units. New accounts currently receive an initial credit balance, and the current product charges 10 credits for a tour generation and 1 credit for each follow-up Q&A reply.

Credits are not currency, stored value, or a cash-equivalent right unless MENTOR separately states otherwise. If an operation cannot be completed after credits are reserved, MENTOR may restore the reserved credits through its system records.

Credit costs, initial balances, rate limits, and access controls may change as the service evolves. MENTOR may block a request when the account is inactive, revoked, or does not have enough credits.

User responsibilities and prohibited conduct

You must not use MENTOR to violate law, infringe third-party rights, expose code you are not authorized to process, transmit malware, attempt unauthorized access, overload infrastructure, or bypass authentication, repository, or credit controls.

You should avoid submitting secrets, credentials, regulated personal information, or highly confidential material unless you have authority to do so and have confirmed that the service is appropriate for that material.

AI-generated outputs

MENTOR uses AI systems to generate explanations, tours, graphs, and answers from the context provided to the service. Outputs may be incomplete, outdated, inaccurate, or unsuitable for your specific codebase or production environment.

You remain responsible for reviewing, testing, and deciding whether to rely on any output. MENTOR does not provide legal, security, professional engineering, or production-readiness guarantees.

Ownership and limited license

You keep ownership of your repositories, code, prompts, questions, and other materials you submit, subject to any rights held by your organization or third parties.

You grant MENTOR a limited right to host, copy, transmit, analyze, cache, and process submitted materials only as needed to operate, secure, improve, and support the service.

MENTOR and its operator retain rights in the service, software, interfaces, documentation, branding, and non-user materials. You may not copy or reverse engineer the service except where allowed by law or an applicable open-source license.

Privacy and provider processing

MENTOR processes personal information and repository-derived context as described in the Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy is part of the overall service rules and should be reviewed with these Terms.

When AI features are used, prompts, code context, diffs, questions, and related metadata may be sent to MENTOR systems and configured AI providers for processing.

Service changes and availability

MENTOR may add, modify, suspend, or remove features, workflows, supported repository types, credit policies, model providers, pages, or operational policies.

The service is provided on an as-available basis. MENTOR does not guarantee uninterrupted availability, error-free operation, preservation of every cache or log, or compatibility with every repository, extension version, or development environment.

Liability, governing law, and updates

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, MENTOR is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, loss of profits, loss of data, repository errors, or decisions made based on generated outputs.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Korea, unless mandatory law requires otherwise. MENTOR may update these Terms by posting the revised version on the service, and material changes may be announced through reasonable service notices.