v1.0.5 protocol notices
[ A G I J O B M A N A G E R - P R O T O C O L T E R M S A N D N O T I C E S ]
Notice version: v1.0.5. Publication date: 18 September 2026.
Software publisher/rightsholder: MONTREAL.AI and the other identified rightsholders.
Deployment operator: the actual person or entity identified for the selected instance;
not determined by a brand, ENS name, source comment or wallet address alone.
Legal center: https://github.com/MontrealAI/AGIJobManager/tree/v1.0.5/docs/LEGAL
1. Scope, license and acceptance
The MIT License governs the covered software and documentation, including commercial
use, its notice requirements and warranty/liability provisions. This notice adds no
restriction, fee, indemnity or other condition to MIT permissions.
These notices explain the software, risks and proposed allocation of responsibilities.
Contractual service provisions apply only where incorporated into a properly identified
operator's agreement and validly accepted under applicable law. Publication, access,
a wallet transaction or a source comment alone does not establish informed acceptance,
legal capacity or authority. A local UI acknowledgement is bypassable and is not an
on-chain agreement system. Operators must present their own identity, terms, fees,
privacy information and any required language/acceptance process before offering service.
2. Separate roles; actual conduct controls
The Protocol is software implementing jobs, USDC escrow, collateral, validation,
disputes and settlement. Software is not a substitute for identifying responsible
people and entities. Mere authorship, publication, attribution, an ENS reference or a
fork does not appoint MONTREAL.AI, contributors or rightsholders to operate a third
party's deployment, employ its participants, hold their keys, advise them, guarantee
work, insure funds, settle disputes or provide ongoing support.
If a publisher, owner, moderator, host, ENS controller or fee recipient actually
performs a service, retains control, receives compensation or makes an undertaking,
its duties follow those facts and applicable law. Open-source, automated, AI-only,
non-upgradeable, decentralized or overseas labels do not confer regulatory immunity.
No notice transfers every duty to participants or excuses a party's own conduct.
3. Owner, moderator and fee-recipient disclosure
The manager owner has real administrative powers: separate intake and settlement
pauses, eligibility settings and exceptions, moderator appointment, specified job
parameters, unassigned-job delisting and stale-dispute decisions allowed by the code.
An intake pause permits normal exits; a settlement pause can delay refunds, payment
claims and other exits and extends lifecycle clocks. Moderator decisions can affect
outcomes. Absence of a proxy does not remove these powers or trust assumptions.
Successful jobs allocate the recorded validator budget first, then 30% and 10% of
original job cost to configured recipients, with the remainder to the agent. The default
validator budget is 8%; a 100 USDC example is 8 / 30 / 10 / 52 before rounding or unused
reviewer amounts. The operator must disclose recipients, beneficiaries, relationships
and services paid for. The publisher is not necessarily either recipient. Receiving
fees can matter to the regulatory and tax analysis; they are not automatically royalties.
Wallet rotation requires paused intake and zero live job escrow and all bond reserves.
Existing reserved payment claims keep their beneficiaries. Withdrawals protect escrow,
bonds and claims. Ownership requires proposed-owner acceptance; renunciation is disabled.
ENS parent, helper and interface control can be held separately and must be disclosed.
4. Users and lawful activity
Employers define lawful work, funding, acceptance criteria and their off-chain agreements.
Agent operators are responsible for authorized performance, lawful deliverables and key
security. Validators assess evidence honestly and independently; moderators exercise
only actual authority, with disclosed conflicts and any applicable duties. Automated
agents act for their responsible operators. Each party must meet obligations applicable
to its own activities, including taxes, records, privacy, IP, sanctions, worker and
consumer rights and any required authorization. Obligations can attach to owners,
operators, publishers and recipients as well as participants.
ENS membership, NFTs, allowlists, Merkle proofs and blacklists do not establish identity,
independence or a complete KYC/AML, sanctions or compliance program. The code does not
supply deployment-specific legal clearance. Its availability is not an invitation to
use it where prohibited or to bypass legal requirements or access controls.
5. Jobs, refunds and settlement
Employers deposit native Circle USDC with six decimals. Eligible agents may be required
to post collateral. Fresh managers start with intake paused and NFT eligibility disabled;
owners can opt in for future jobs. Each job retains its posting-time NFT policy and
validator reward percentage. Eligibility NFTs do not change payout shares.
Completion, review, challenge, voting and dispute windows follow the deployed code.
Ordinary finalization waits for the full required review/challenge periods. No votes,
insufficient quorum or tied votes do not automatically pay the agent. Employers can
explicitly accept submitted undisputed work. A buyer-win outcome preserves full job
escrow for refund. Code-supported cancellation, expiration and neutral dispute timeout
remain available subject to their conditions, pauses and required transactions.
Failed outgoing USDC transfers are reserved for the original beneficiary and can be
retried under the code. A completion event is not proof every recipient was paid.
USDC issuer freezes, blocked addresses or infrastructure failures can delay receipt.
The protocol does not issue USDC or control its issuer, redemption, price or availability.
No notice removes a code-supported refund, reserved claim or mandatory legal remedy.
There is no promised discretionary rescue, reversal, insurance or guaranteed recovery.
6. Work agreements, intellectual property and classification
The actual parties must agree scope, quality, evidence access, deadlines, confidentiality,
IP ownership/licensing and any service levels. A completion NFT or ENS name alone does
not transfer IP, certify quality, give ownership of MONTREAL.AI or grant investment rights.
The software publication is not an investment offer or promise of yield. Actual job fees
and services must still be disclosed. Worker, agency, fiduciary, payment-service and
other legal relationships depend on facts and law, not solely on chosen labels or the
absence of a separate written agreement.
7. Public data and third parties
Protocol addresses, ENS identities and activity can be personal data, linkable and permanent.
Do not add personal information about yourself or others, confidential material or secrets to public text, links, files, ENS/IPFS/NFT metadata or support posts.
Users bear responsibility for their selected data, instructions, disclosures and agent outputs to the fullest lawful extent; check authority, rights and public-safe content before submission.
Keep protected work in a separately agreed lawful, access-controlled workflow. Mere software or contract use does not appoint MONTREAL.AI or an owner as its private-data custodian or processor.
Actual processing roles and mandatory duties cannot be transferred by a disclaimer, checkbox or indemnity. No privacy rights are waived by a wallet transaction.
Hashes, encryption and private-looking links do not guarantee anonymity; local deletion, unpinning or ENS changes cannot erase all public copies.
Wallet, RPC, host and metadata providers can process connection data. Actual operators must provide accurate notices and applicable safeguards; no zero-data or regulatory-immunity claim is made.
8. Operational commitments and risk
There is no additional publisher promise in this release to monitor every job, keep a
service online, supply updates, screen users, fund losses, rescue assets or respond within
a particular period. Owners and moderators must accurately state services they undertake;
a discretion or technical permission does not cancel accepted duties or mandatory law.
Smart contracts, credentials, keys, networks and USDC can fail. Reviews can be mistaken,
collusive or absent, and neutral refund can leave work unpaid. Users pay gas, including
for failed transactions; deadlines need callers and do not execute themselves.
Tests, signatures, hashes, badges and audit references are not guarantees of safety,
legality, independence, delivery, profit or payment. Users should independently assess
suitability and potential loss rather than rely on promotional language.
9. Warranty and liability boundaries
The MIT warranty and liability provisions remain applicable to licensed software.
For separately agreed voluntary services, any additional disclaimer or limitation for
the operator, owner, moderators, publisher or contributors applies only if validly agreed
and enforceable. Subject to express commitments and mandatory rights, no additional
warranty of merchantability, fitness, accuracy, availability, security, quality or results
is given by these notices. To the extent validly agreed and permitted, such parties
exclude indirect or consequential losses from those voluntary services.
Nothing excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including fraud, intentional
misconduct, gross fault or protected injury where applicable law so provides. Escrow,
bonds, beneficiary claims and required refunds are not funds the operator may retain by
invoking a limitation. No unilateral cap or waiver is imposed on non-consenting persons.
Any service cap requires a locally reviewed agreement specifying its amount and scope.
10. Professional-user indemnity and representation
An independent operator may seek a proportionate, locally reviewed business-user
indemnity for third-party loss caused by that user's unlawful data disclosure, content,
intentional misuse or breach. It requires valid agreement, identified beneficiaries,
appropriate defense/settlement procedures and mandatory-law exceptions; it is not
imposed by this notice or by MIT. It must not cover the protected party's own misconduct
or non-indemnifiable amounts, or impose an unlawful consumer burden.
Mere contribution, role-address ownership or authorized signing does not by itself
create personal guarantees, agency or partnership. Actual commitments, authority,
conduct and mandatory personal liability remain effective. No one may falsely imply
MONTREAL.AI endorsement, representation or certification. Accurate licensed attribution
and otherwise lawful references remain permitted.
11. Mandatory law, disputes and language
Nothing binds regulators or non-consenting third parties, prevents lawful complaints,
cooperation or urgent relief, waives non-waivable rights, eliminates taxes/filings,
or excuses violation of applicable law. Code determines on-chain execution; it does
not override mandatory law or a valid agreement. Off-chain disputes and remedies may
involve any party responsible under the actual facts; no blanket immunity from suit
or jurisdiction is claimed. Each operator must select an appropriate dispute process
subject to mandatory consumer/worker protections and other applicable requirements.
These materials are English. Where local law requires another language or a prior
translation and express choice, the operator must provide a valid process; worldwide
availability is not a waiver. Seek qualified advice for the actual jurisdictions and
activities. This software release is not a legal opinion or professional engagement.
12. Versions and existing rights
This publication does not amend earlier agreements, retroactively obtain consent,
rewrite verified deployed source or change existing jobs. Operators must implement
prospective amendments through an effective notice/acceptance process and preserve
accrued rights. Invalid provisions do not expand a disclaimer beyond lawful limits.
The MIT License and separate valid agreements remain distinct; this source notice is
not a universal entire-agreement clause or additional restriction on software use.