Terms of use

• User: anyone who visits the site or uses Studio, the SDK or an account.
• Account: the profile created with GitHub login.
• Agent: a program or policy you submit or register for a task.
• Studio: the in-browser simulation (one agent, stacking).
• Arena: 1v1, not available yet.
• Leaderboard: the public table of names, URLs, scores and ELO.
• Harness: the process that runs a live match and may write official ELO.

The Provider offers, free of charge, a stacking work-cell for embodied agents, a documented protocol and, when the harness is configured, a public leaderboard. The Service is offered by a natural person as an open-source project, not by a company.

We do not provide control of a physical robot, hosted GPU inference, a PyPI release, or 1v1 Arena until the site says it is live. “Coming soon” features are not part of this contract.

You must be at least 16 and have a GitHub account that complies with GitHub’s terms. Your contract with GitHub is separate.

The API key is a credential. Keep it secret, do not commit it, rotate it if it leaks. Anyone who uses it acts as you. You are responsible for actions taken with your key and account.

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service for research, learning, development and evaluation of your agents, subject to these terms and the law.

Repository code, if published, is used under the licence in that repository. These terms do not transfer trademarks, logos or the VSArena name.

You keep rights in your agent code, weights and repo. By running a live match or registering an agent you grant the Provider a free, worldwide, non-exclusive licence, for the term of protection, to reproduce and display the agent name, repo URL, scores, ELO and match metadata in order to run the board and document the benchmark.

The board is public. Do not submit secrets, third-party personal data, unlawful material or weights you cannot show. The browser cannot write ELO; only harness ingest with the configured secret is official.

We may hide or remove placeholder, abusive, misleading or non-compliant entries. That is not a general obligation to monitor all information.

You may use the Service to evaluate agents, record demos, develop policies and cite public results fairly.

You may not, in particular:

• fake scores, bypass the harness, or attack the infrastructure;
• submit malware, attempt unauthorised access, or use the Service to commit crimes;
• upload unlawful, defamatory or infringing content;
• present Studio demos as official ELO;
• present ColorSeek or Baseline-IK as neural VLAs if they are not;
• resell access without written agreement.

The site, the VSArena name as used here, layout and Provider copy belong to NovaCoding-G, except third-party works and open-source components under their licences. You may cite VSArena in a paper or post with a link to the site, without implying sponsorship that does not exist.

The Service is provided as-is. We may interrupt it, change it, reset test environments or move infrastructure. We do not guarantee uptime, bit-identical physics versus Isaac Sim or other stacks, or that a score stays frozen after a physics or protocol change. Material protocol changes will be noted in the docs.

To the fullest extent allowed by law, the Provider gives no warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, error-free operation, or fitness to control real hardware. Simulation results do not replace real-robot tests, safety reviews or certifications.

The Service is free. Except where the law forbids it, the Provider is not liable for indirect loss, lost profits, lost data, lost publication opportunity, or damage from using the Service to control real machines.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for wilful misconduct or gross negligence, death or personal injury, or other liability that Italian law does not allow to be waived (Civil Code Article 1229 and mandatory consumer rules).

If, despite the Service being free, a rule still imposes damages, the total will not exceed EUR 100 per user, again except for the mandatory cases above.

If your content or your use of the Service causes third-party claims, you will indemnify the Provider for resulting costs and damages, except where the Provider’s wilful misconduct or gross negligence caused the claim.

You may stop using the Service at any time and request account deletion as described in the privacy notice. The Provider may suspend or close an account for breach, security risk, or project shutdown, with reasonable notice unless urgent.

There are no subscriptions or charges, so no tacit renewal. If paid features are added later, they will have separate terms and, for consumers, withdrawal rights where the Consumer Code requires them.

If you are an EU consumer (Italian Consumer Code, Legislative Decree 206/2005), mandatory protections remain, including the consumer’s court (Article 66-bis). Unfair terms that harm the consumer are void; the rest of the contract may survive.

The Service is digital and starts when you use it (opening Studio or signing in). It is free, so there is no price to refund. You may still ask for erasure of your data.

Italian law applies, except where private international law makes another mandatory law prevail.

Disputes with non-consumers go to the courts of the Provider’s residence or domicile in Italy. Consumers use the court the law gives them.

If both sides agree, you may try an out-of-court settlement. EU consumers may use the European Commission’s ODR platform.

Notices are valid if sent to novacodingg@gmail.com or, if that is unset, via an issue on https://github.com/NovaCoding-G. Changes to these terms are posted on this page with a new date. Use after publication is acceptance, without prejudice to mandatory rights.

If one clause is void, the others remain. Failure to enforce a right is not a waiver. These terms plus the privacy notice are the whole agreement on the Service. For users in Italy, the Italian text prevails if it conflicts with the English.