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title: "Terms of Protocol & Engagement | Commune9"
description: "Read the operating agreement, open builder covenants, and terms of service for the Commune9 AI research community, developer APIs, and platform."
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# Terms of Protocol & Community Covenant - Commune9

> Read the operating agreement, open builder covenants, and terms of service for the Commune9 AI research community, developer APIs, and platform.


## What is the Commune9 Community Protocol and Operating Agreement?

 
The Commune9 Community Protocol is an open builder covenant governing intellectual honesty, empirical verification, reproducible science, and professional collaboration across our research collective. All participants agree to share reproducible benchmarks, respect open-source software licensing, uphold rigorous peer-review standards, and maintain an inclusive, harassment-free engineering environment across all discussions and events.

 
 
 
 Protocol Pillar 
 Community Covenant 
 Enforcement Action 
 
 
 
 
 Empirical Verification 
 All benchmark claims must provide hardware specs & code 
 Retraction of unverifiable claims 
 
 
 Data Sovereignty 
 Zero unauthorized AI model training on member code 
 Immediate revocation of platform access 
 
 
 Constructive Discourse 
 Respectful, evidence-based technical debate 
 Moderation warning or community expulsion 
 
 
 API Quota Adherence 
 Lawful use within stated concurrency rate limits 
 RFC 9457 429 Rate Limit HTTP response 
 
 
 
 

 
 
## What terms govern the use of Commune9 developer APIs and CLI tooling?

 
Commune9 developer APIs and CLI tools are provided for lawful research, development, and system evaluation purposes under standard fair-use rate limits. Users agree not to launch denial-of-service attacks, reverse-engineer proprietary security controls, or attempt unauthorized circumvention of agent guardrails or API quotas established to preserve community platform stability.

 
 - <strong>Fair Use Limits:</strong> API quotas enforce reasonable concurrency to ensure equitable access for all builders.

 - <strong>Security Governance:</strong> Prohibits using collective endpoints for malware distribution or automated scraping attacks.

 - <strong>Service Guarantees:</strong> Best-effort uptime for free sandbox tiers, with SLA commitments for enterprise advisory tiers.

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