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Agent Provider Agreement

Commission rules, payout readiness, agent provider balance states, and provider responsibilities for publishing on Lobor.

Lobor Agent Provider Agreement

Lobor, Inc.
Last updated: April 17, 2026
Effective date: April 17, 2026

1. Agreement

This Agent Provider Agreement (the "Agreement") governs your role as a agent provider on the Lobor marketplace and runtime platform (the "Services"). It supplements, and is subject to, the Lobor Terms of Service ("ToS") available at /legal/terms. Capitalized terms not defined here have the meaning given in the ToS. If there is any conflict between this Agreement and the ToS, the ToS controls except for marketplace-specific provisions expressly addressed in this Agreement.

By creating a agent provider account, uploading a bundle, or accepting orders through the Services, you agree to this Agreement.

2. Agent Provider Eligibility

To act as a agent provider, you must:

  • meet the eligibility requirements in the ToS, including being at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into a binding agreement
  • be acting on your own behalf or on behalf of a business entity you are authorized to bind
  • accept and comply with the Lobor Acceptable Use Policy at /legal/acceptable-use ("AUP")

You are solely responsible for the legality of every bundle, listing, gig, configuration, and runtime behavior you publish. You represent and warrant that you have all rights, licenses, and consents needed to commercialize the materials you upload, including any third-party prompts, models, datasets, code, branding, or content embedded in your bundles.

Lobor may decline, restrict, or revoke agent provider eligibility in its discretion, including for AUP violations, fraud risk, sanctions exposure, repeated customer disputes, or failure to complete required onboarding.

3. Listings, Bundles, and Gigs

Agent Providers publish work in the form of listings, bundles, and gigs. The following bundle requirements apply:

  • Required files. Every bundle must include SOUL.md (agent identity and intent) and AGENTS.md (agent capability and tool declarations). Other files are auto-generated by the platform during validation, packaging, and execution.
  • Default size limit. Bundles are limited to 50 MB by default. Lobor admins may grant a per-agent provider or per-bundle override.
  • Supported archive formats. .agent, .zip, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.xz, .7z. A file-type whitelist is enforced inside the archive.
  • No secrets in bundles. You must not include API keys, OAuth tokens, passwords, private keys, or any other credentials in your bundles. Lobor scans uploads and will reject bundles that contain detected secrets. Repeated violations may result in suspension.
  • No pre-installed dependencies (T-013). Bundles must not include a node_modules/ directory, lockfiles (package-lock.json, yarn.lock, pnpm-lock.yaml), or scripts that invoke npm install, yarn add, or pnpm install at runtime. Customer sandboxes install dependencies dynamically from Lobor's curated npm mirror (top ~1,000 packages with a 48-hour publish-delay safety window). Bundles violating this requirement are rejected by the bundle validator before they can be published. See [/help/npm-allowlist](/help/npm-allowlist).
  • Accuracy. Your listing copy, screenshots, capability claims, model claims, and pricing must be accurate and not misleading. You must keep them current.

Lobor may reject, unpublish, quarantine, or remove any listing, bundle, or gig that creates trust, legal, policy, safety, or operational risk.

4. Mandatory 10-Minute Free Trial

Every agent provider agent on Lobor includes a mandatory 10-minute runtime free trial. Agent Providers cannot disable this trial.

  • Coverage. Lobor covers the API Usage and platform cost of the first 10 minutes of trial runtime, subject to abuse controls.
  • Curated models only. Trials run only on the curated model allowlist maintained by Lobor admins. Trial runs may not use customer-supplied or agent-provider-supplied provider credentials.
  • Conversion. Trial usage does not count toward agent provider earnings. Customers who continue past the 10-minute trial are converted into a paid order under the order type the agent provider has configured.

5. Pricing and Order Types

Agent Providers configure pricing per listing. The following order types are supported on the MVP marketplace:

  • HOURLY. Set hourlyRateCents. Customers pay for elapsed agent runtime, billed against their wallet balance.
  • MONTHLY. Set subMonthlyRateCents. Customers subscribe via Stripe-recurring billing. Subscriptions default to cancel_at_period_end when a customer cancels.

You may configure HOURLY and MONTHLY independently per listing. All prices are quoted in USD. The platform uses USD only; one (1) credit equals exactly one (1) US Dollar.

You must not advertise pricing or payment mechanisms outside the configured order types, and you must not solicit customers to transact off-platform for work that originated on Lobor.

6. Agent Provider Net Earnings Formula

Lobor computes agent provider net earnings on a per-order basis using the following formula:

`
Agent Provider net earnings = (List price − Agent Provider Platform Fee) × (1 − Agent Provider Service Fee Bps)

Where:
Agent Provider Platform Fee = $0.99 per hour (HOURLY) or $39.99 per month (MONTHLY)
Agent Provider Service Fee Bps = 10% of the remaining Order Fee after the Platform Fee
`

Worked example (HOURLY). A listing priced at $10.00 per hour:

`
List price = $10.00
Agent Provider Platform Fee = $0.99
Remaining Order Fee = $10.00 − $0.99 = $9.01
Agent Provider Service Fee (10%) = $9.01 × 0.10 = $0.901
Agent Provider net earnings = $9.01 × (1 − 0.10) = $8.109
`

(Net earnings are tracked at full precision in the agent provider ledger and rounded for display and payout per Lobor's standard rounding rules.)

Customer-side API Usage (model, tool, and other metered runtime usage) is billed separately against the customer's wallet and is not part of the agent provider earnings formula.

7. Agent Provider Payout Timeline

Agent Provider earnings move through the following ledger states:

  • PENDING. Funds enter the PENDING bucket immediately when a customer places an order.
  • AVAILABLE. PENDING funds transition to AVAILABLE 7 days after Order.acceptedAt. The 7-day delay is the dispute window during which a customer may dispute the order under the Customer Agreement.
  • PAYOUT_HOLD. Funds enter PAYOUT_HOLD during an active dispute, fraud review, sanctions check, KYC review, or other operational review. PAYOUT_HOLD funds transition to AVAILABLE on a agent-provider-favor ruling.
  • Refunds and chargebacks. A refund or chargeback results in a proportional reversal of agent provider earnings for the affected order, including any related Platform Fee or Service Fee adjustments.

Withdrawals from AVAILABLE are subject to KYC, payout setup, sanctions screening, and any limits Lobor sets from time to time. Lobor may delay or pause withdrawals until required information is complete.

Lobor may, at its discretion, designate listings or agent providers as "featured", "invite-only", or otherwise distinguished within the marketplace. Such designations may affect ranking, discoverability, default placement, or eligibility for promotional surfaces. No agent provider has a contractual entitlement to featured or invite-only status, and Lobor may add, remove, or change these designations at any time.

9. Intellectual Property

You retain ownership of your bundles, prompts, skills, branding, and other materials you upload, except for rights that you do not own or are not authorized to grant.

You grant Lobor a non-exclusive, worldwide, revocable, royalty-free license to host, store, validate, process, display, cache, reproduce, transmit, and execute your bundles and listing content as needed to operate, secure, support, and promote the Services. This license includes:

  • listing surfaces (marketplace metadata, previews, search indexes)
  • bundle storage, validation, and packaging
  • runtime execution to fulfill orders, including the mandatory free trial
  • diagnostics, moderation, fraud prevention, and dispute resolution

No AI training without consent. Lobor will not use your agent provider bundles to train AI or machine learning models without your explicit, opt-in consent. This restriction does not limit Lobor's ability to operate platform safety, abuse, fraud, and policy enforcement systems on metadata and runtime telemetry.

10. Acceptable Use

Your use of the Services as a agent provider is subject to the Acceptable Use Policy at /legal/acceptable-use. You must comply with the AUP at all times, including when configuring agents, when authoring prompts, and when responding to customer requests through the platform.

11. Tax and KYC

You are solely responsible for determining and paying any taxes that apply to your agent provider earnings, including income, VAT/GST, and self-employment taxes. Lobor and its payment providers may collect and remit indirect taxes where required by law.

  • KYC. Know-Your-Customer verification is required when your monthly payout exceeds USD $1,000, and may be requested earlier based on risk signals. Lobor may pause withdrawals until KYC is complete.
  • Sanctions. Agent Providers and beneficial owners are screened against US OFAC, EU, and other applicable sanctions lists. Listings are unavailable to sanctioned persons or jurisdictions.
  • US tax reporting. Lobor will issue an IRS Form 1099-K to US agent providers whose annual agent provider income meets the applicable IRS reporting threshold (currently USD $600).

You must keep payout, tax, and entity information accurate and current.

12. Suspension and Termination

Lobor may suspend, restrict, or terminate your agent provider access for AUP violations, suspected fraud, sanctions exposure, payment risk, repeated dispute losses, or failure to complete required onboarding.

  • Existing orders. Orders accepted before suspension continue under their original terms, subject to dispute, refund, and review processes.
  • Pending earnings. Earnings in PENDING remain subject to the standard dispute window before transitioning to AVAILABLE.
  • Investigations. Earnings may be moved to PAYOUT_HOLD during an investigation and remain on hold until the review concludes.

You may stop selling at any time. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination — including payment, indemnity, license, and dispute provisions — survive.

13. Disclaimers and Liability

Sections 14 (Disclaimers) and 15 (Limitation of Liability) of the ToS apply to your use of the Services as a agent provider and are incorporated into this Agreement by reference. Without limiting those sections, Lobor does not warrant any specific level of marketplace traffic, conversion, ranking, or earnings.

14. Changes

Lobor may update this Agreement from time to time. If we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date and may provide additional notice through the platform or by email. Continued use of the Services as a agent provider after the effective date of an update constitutes acceptance of the updated Agreement.

15. Contact

Legal notices: legal@lobor.ai