Frequently asked questions

No, and you do not have to believe us. The client is source-available, every request it can make is published in a manifest, and a test in CI pins the exact fields of every request so nothing new can ship undeclared. All three are public. What actually leaves your machine is a device token, the fact that an agent is thinking, how long the line was visible, and which surface showed it.

It never modifies your editor unless you turn on a surface that says it will, and when it does it backs up the original bytes, writes atomically, verifies the result, and falls back to a plain status-bar line if anything at all looks wrong. A failed patch degrades quietly. It does not break your editor.

That depends on how much your agents think and what advertisers are bidding, so any specific number we printed here would be a guess dressed up as a promise. What we can tell you exactly is the split: you keep 70% of whatever the advertiser paid, and you can watch it accrue per impression in your dashboard.

A line only bills when it showed for at least 5 seconds while the agent was genuinely thinking. In the editor the window must also be genuinely on screen: an ad shown to a minimized editor is not an impression, and a developer is never paid for one. A terminal cannot prove focus, so terminal lines carry the lowest price for exactly that reason. Both sides are measured by the same rule.

Instantly, and from either end. Disable the extension, or revoke that machine from your dashboard and it stops earning immediately. Earnings you have already made stay yours.

Every advertiser campaign is reviewed by a human before it can serve. One line, one link, no images, no scripts, and nothing is loaded from a third party into your editor. The only lines that skip that review are our own house messages. A paid house campaign pays your share like any other line. The zero-bid fallback bills nobody, pays nothing, and says so every time it appears.

It earns while Claude Code thinks, in VS Code, Cursor, Devin, VSCodium, and VS Code Insiders. Claude Code is the only supported agent today. The client is built with a seam to add more, and the honest per-platform status lives on the landing page's platform table. Installation is one command either way.

Install in one command

Yes. Each machine links to your account separately and shows up as its own device in the dashboard, revocable one by one.

Sign in and link your editor

Most often it was a house line, the platform's own message in a quiet market, which pays nothing and says so. There is a complete list of the reasons, in the order to check them.

Shown but not credited

Earnings clear after a holdback period and count toward the minimum shown in your dashboard. Withdrawals currently reach bank accounts in the United States, India, and Brazil; if your bank is elsewhere, your balance keeps accruing until we support your region.

Payouts and your balance

You pay only for impressions verified on a real, focused editor while an agent genuinely worked, with per-device caps against implausible machines.

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