Terms of Service

1. Service Description

Scientia Ex Machina ("SXM", "we", "us") provides automated evaluation and certification services for AI skills and agents. Our certifications, including Standard and Hardened tiers, are informational assessments based on automated testing at a single point in time.

2. Nature of Certification

SXM certification is not a guarantee of safety, security, or fitness for purpose. Our evaluations form one component of a broader AI governance framework. Certification indicates that a skill passed our automated test battery at the time of evaluation. It does not guarantee:

• Freedom from all vulnerabilities or security risks
• Compliance with any specific regulatory framework (ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, etc.)
• Fitness for any particular use case or deployment environment
• Protection against novel or zero-day attack vectors
• Ongoing security beyond the evaluation date

Skill developers and users are responsible for conducting their own due diligence, security assessments, and compliance reviews appropriate to their use case.

3. SXM Hardened Certification

The SXM Hardened tier provides adversarial red-team testing against known attack patterns. A passing score indicates resistance to the specific test vectors in our battery at the time of evaluation. New attack techniques emerge regularly, and a Hardened certification does not guarantee resistance to future or undiscovered attack methods.

4. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, SXM and its operators shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages arising from:

• Reliance on certification results
• Security incidents involving certified skills
• Data loss, financial loss, or reputational damage related to the use of certified or uncertified skills
• Inaccuracies in evaluation results
• Service downtime or unavailability

Our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid for the specific service giving rise to the claim.

5. Security Advisories

Our Security Advisories describe anonymised vulnerability patterns. They are published for educational purposes and do not constitute security advice for any specific deployment. Implementing remediation steps is the responsibility of the skill developer.

6. Payments and Refunds

Payments for SXM Hardened certification are processed via Stripe. Certification results are delivered automatically upon completion. Refunds are available if the evaluation fails to complete due to a system error on our side. Refunds are not available for skills that fail certification.

7. Intellectual Property

Skills submitted for evaluation remain the intellectual property of their developers. We do not claim ownership of submitted skills or their source code. Evaluation results and reports are licensed to the purchaser for their own use.

8. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Submit skills containing malware or deliberately harmful code
• Attempt to manipulate evaluation results
• Misrepresent SXM certification status
• Use SXM certifications as the sole basis for security decisions in critical infrastructure

9. Changes to Terms

We may update these terms at any time. Continued use of SXM services after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.

10. Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia.

11. Contact

Questions about these terms can be directed to jason@teachnology.au.