Terms & License

Last updated June 2026

Refine is a free, open-source tool that connects your own AI coding agent to a live timeline panel. Please read these terms - especially the parts about Beta status, your agent credits, and code changes - before you use it.

Beta software

Refine is an early Beta. It is provided for evaluation and everyday use, but features, commands, the panel, and its behavior may change, regress, or be removed at any time without notice. We make no guarantee that it will be available, stable, error- free, or fit for any particular purpose.

Your agent token & credit usage

Refine does not run its own AI model. It triggers your own AI coding agent (for example Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex) running in your environment. Every Refine click, and any persistent session started with npx transitions-refine live or /refine live, consumes your provider's tokens, credits, or quota - including while a live session sits idle and keeps polling.

You are solely responsible for that consumption and any associated costs. Transitions.dev is not responsible for, and will not reimburse, any tokens, credits, fees, overages, or charges incurred through your use of the tool. Stop a live session when you are done (say stop refine or run npx transitions-refine stop) to avoid idle credit usage.

The agent changes your code

When you accept or apply a suggestion, the agent writes changes directly into the source files of your project. Suggestions are generated by an AI agent and may be incorrect, incomplete, or unsuitable for your codebase.

Use version control and review every change (for example via git diff) before committing.
Keep backups of any work that matters to you.
You are responsible for everything that is committed to and shipped from your repository.

You use this code-writing capability at your own risk.

No warranty & limitation of liability

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the authors and copyright holders shall not be liable for any claim, damages, or other liability - whether direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential, and including lost work, lost data, or lost tokens/credits - arising from or in connection with the software or its use.

License

Refine is released under the MIT License.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.