Terms of use

Warden is released under the licence in the repository, and that licence, not this page, is what governs your use of the software. This page is a plain-English summary of what it means in practice.

You may use it, read it, modify it and share it. It costs nothing and there is nothing to agree to before installing.

The software is provided as is, without warranty of any kind. It is a student project, tested primarily on the machines its authors own. It may not work on yours.

Warden changes Windows settings when you approve it to. Those changes are real, and you are responsible for deciding whether to allow them. The design tries hard to make that decision an informed one. You see the exact command, its effect, and the test that will judge it, before anything runs. But the decision remains yours.

Keep backups of anything you care about. This is true regardless of Warden, but it is worth saying on a page about a tool that modifies system settings.

Warden asks Windows for a System Restore point before the first disruptive action of a session. That is a useful safety net and not a substitute for a backup.

There is no paid tier, no subscription and no payment processing anywhere in this project. The tiers shown on the pricing page are illustrative and clearly marked as such. If that ever changes, these terms will change with it, in public.

The download bundles a local model runtime and model weights, both redistributed unmodified under their own open-source licences. Those licences ship inside the application folder, and the build script that assembles them is in the repository.