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Terms
Last updated April 24, 2026.
Lede is a free, open-source macOS app distributed by Kevin Blackburn-Matzen.
By installing or using it, you agree to the terms below. If you don't agree,
don't use the app. There's no account to delete and nothing to cancel —
just remove the app and the small amount of state it keeps locally.
What Lede does
Lede reads notifications and message metadata from services you connect
(currently Gmail, GitHub, Slack, Outlook, and Google/Outlook calendars),
sends short snippets of that content to Anthropic's Claude API for scoring
and summarization, and shows the result in a menu-bar panel.
Your responsibilities
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Bring your own keys. Lede uses your Anthropic API key
(or, in dev builds, your Claude subscription) for every triage call.
You are responsible for those costs and for keeping the key out of
other people's hands.
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Honor the providers' terms. When you connect Gmail,
GitHub, Slack, Outlook, or any other service, your use is governed by
their terms — Lede doesn't alter or override them.
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Use a Mac you control. Lede stores OAuth tokens in
the macOS Keychain. Don't install it on a shared account where another
user could use those tokens to access your data.
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Don't redistribute under another name. The MIT license
lets you fork and modify, but please don't ship a rebrand that confuses
people about whether they're getting the real Lede.
What Lede is not responsible for
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Third-party outages and changes. If Anthropic, Google,
GitHub, Slack, or Microsoft change their APIs, rate-limit you, or go
down, Lede may stop working until a new release lands. There's no SLA.
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Triage accuracy. Claude's scoring is a heuristic —
helpful in aggregate, occasionally wrong about a specific item. Don't
rely on Lede as your only signal for time-critical messages.
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Costs you incur on third-party services. Anthropic
bills your account directly for API usage; the providers (Google,
Microsoft, etc.) may impose their own quotas. Lede shows an estimate
in the About pane but doesn't enforce limits.
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Data you've already sent us. We don't have a server,
so there's nothing for us to "delete on request." Disconnecting a
source removes its tokens from your Keychain immediately; quitting
Lede stops all activity; deleting the app removes the local cache.
License + warranty disclaimer
Lede is released under the MIT license — see
LICENSE
in the repo. The license disclaims warranties and limits liability;
those terms apply here. In short: the app is provided
as is, with no guarantee that it will work, won't
crash, or won't lose data.
Privacy
What Lede reads, where it sends it, and how to wipe it are described
in the privacy policy. The TL;DR: the app
never sends data to a server we run; the only network calls go to the
providers you connected and to Anthropic's API.
Changes to these terms
If these terms change in a meaningful way, the "Last updated" date at
the top of this page changes too. Material changes will also be noted
in release notes for the version that introduces them.