Devin (Cognition AI) policy evolution
Before/after stance changes across captured policy versions, with exact citations. If no before/after delta is available yet, AIRIN shows the latest citation-backed stance events instead.
worsenedhigh materialitytrainingJun 17, 2026 to Jun 17, 2026
content license worsened from medium/broad license to high/sublicensable or transferable.
Stance key: content license. AIRIN emits this only when before and after stance events both carry citations.
Before · broad license
medium
“You hereby grant to Licensor a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide license to use any Feedback without compensation, without any obligation to report on such use, and without any other restriction. The rights granted in the previous sentence include the right to exploit Feedback in any and every way, as well as the right to grant sublicenses under copyright, patent, and any other form of intellectual property. Notwithstanding Section 6, Feedback will not be considered Customer's Confidential Information. For the avoidance of doubt, Customer is not required to provide any Feedback nor is Licensor required to use any Feedback.”
§ 3.5
Open citationAfter · sublicensable or transferable
high
“3.1 Ownership: Cognition owns all right, title, and interest, including all intellectual property rights, in and to the Services, Documentation, and Cognition IP, and reserves all rights not expressly granted to you in this Agreement. You own all right, title, and interest, including all intellectual property rights, in and to Customer Data, including Outputs to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. 3.2 License: By using the Services, you hereby grant to Cognition, its affiliates, successors, and assigns a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable (solely for the purposes of providing the Services to you), transferable license to reproduce, distribute, modify, and otherwise use, display, and perform all acts with respect to the Customer Data as may be necessary for Cognition to provide the Services to you. You hereby represent and warrant that: (i) you have all necessary rights to grant Cognition the license set forth in this section, and to allow Cognition to exercise its rights under such license without infringement of the rights of any third party, including privacy rights; and (ii) Cognition's receipt and processing of Customer Data in accordance with this Agreement does not and will not violate any applicable laws or regulations. 3.3 Data Usage and Rights: 3.3.1 Use of Customer Data: Any Customer Data that you submit, upload, or otherwise post to the Services will not be used for model training purposes unless you opt-in to allow Cognition to use such Customer Data to improve and enhance the Services.”
§ 3.1
Open citationimprovedhigh materialitytrainingJun 17, 2026 to Jun 17, 2026
content license improved from high/sublicensable or transferable to medium/broad license.
Stance key: content license. AIRIN emits this only when before and after stance events both carry citations.
Before · sublicensable or transferable
high
“3.1 Ownership: Cognition owns all right, title, and interest, including all intellectual property rights, in and to the Services, Documentation, and Cognition IP, and reserves all rights not expressly granted to you in this Agreement. You own all right, title, and interest, including all intellectual property rights, in and to Customer Data, including Outputs to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. 3.2 License: By using the Services, you hereby grant to Cognition, its affiliates, successors, and assigns a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable (solely for the purposes of providing the Services to you), transferable license to reproduce, distribute, modify, and otherwise use, display, and perform all acts with respect to the Customer Data as may be necessary for Cognition to provide the Services to you. You hereby represent and warrant that: (i) you have all necessary rights to grant Cognition the license set forth in this section, and to allow Cognition to exercise its rights under such license without infringement of the rights of any third party, including privacy rights; and (ii) Cognition's receipt and processing of Customer Data in accordance with this Agreement does not and will not violate any applicable laws or regulations. 3.3 Data Usage and Rights: 3.3.1 Use of Customer Data: Any Customer Data that you submit, upload, or otherwise post to the Services will not be used for model training purposes unless you opt-in to allow Cognition to use such Customer Data to improve and enhance the Services.”
§ 3.1
Open citationAfter · broad license
medium
“3.1 Ownership: Cognition owns all right, title, and interest, including all intellectual property rights, in and to the Services, Documentation, and Cognition IP, and reserves all rights not expressly granted to you in this Agreement. You own all right, title, and interest, including all intellectual property rights, in and to Customer Data, including Outputs to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. 3.2 License: By using the Services, you hereby grant to Cognition, its affiliates, successors, and assigns a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable (solely for the purposes of providing the Services to you), transferable license to reproduce, distribute, modify, and otherwise use, display, and perform all acts with respect to the Customer Data as may be necessary for Cognition to provide the Services to you. You hereby represent and warrant that: (i) you have all necessary rights to grant Cognition the license set forth in this section, and to allow Cognition to exercise its rights under such license without infringement of the rights of any third party, including privacy rights; and (ii) Cognition's receipt and processing of Customer Data in accordance with this Agreement does not and will not violate any applicable laws or regulations. 3.3 Data Usage and Rights: 3.3.1 Use of Customer Data: Any Customer Data that you submit, upload, or otherwise post to the Services will not be used for model training purposes unless you opt-in to allow Cognition to use such Customer Data to improve and enhance the Services.”
§ 3.1
Open citationworsenedhigh materialitytrainingJun 17, 2026 to Jun 17, 2026
content ownership worsened from low/user retains rights to high/platform claims or reserves rights.
Stance key: content ownership. AIRIN emits this only when before and after stance events both carry citations.
Before · user retains rights
low
“3.1 Ownership: Cognition owns all right, title, and interest, including all intellectual property rights, in and to the Services, Documentation, and Cognition IP, and reserves all rights not expressly granted to you in this Agreement. You own all right, title, and interest, including all intellectual property rights, in and to Customer Data, including Outputs to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. 3.2 License: By using the Services, you hereby grant to Cognition, its affiliates, successors, and assigns a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable (solely for the purposes of providing the Services to you), transferable license to reproduce, distribute, modify, and otherwise use, display, and perform all acts with respect to the Customer Data as may be necessary for Cognition to provide the Services to you. You hereby represent and warrant that: (i) you have all necessary rights to grant Cognition the license set forth in this section, and to allow Cognition to exercise its rights under such license without infringement of the rights of any third party, including privacy rights; and (ii) Cognition's receipt and processing of Customer Data in accordance with this Agreement does not and will not violate any applicable laws or regulations. 3.3 Data Usage and Rights: 3.3.1 Use of Customer Data: Any Customer Data that you submit, upload, or otherwise post to the Services will not be used for model training purposes unless you opt-in to allow Cognition to use such Customer Data to improve and enhance the Services.”
§ 3.1
Open citationAfter · platform claims or reserves rights
high
“2.3 Restrictions: You may not use the Services for any purposes beyond the scope of the access granted in this Agreement. You may not, at any time, directly or indirectly, and must ensure that your Authorized Users do not: (i) copy, reproduce, modify, translate, or create derivative works of the Services or Documentation, in whole or in part; (ii) reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, decode, adapt, or otherwise attempt to derive or gain access to any software component of the Services, in whole or in part; (iii) use the Services to create or develop any competing products or services, including to train competing artificial intelligence models except as expressly approved by Cognition in writing; or (iv) make the Services or Documentation available to anyone other than Authorized Users (collectively, “Use Restrictions”). 2.4 Suspension: We reserve the right to temporarily suspend your access and any Authorized User's access to any portion or all of the Services if, in our sole discretion, we reasonably determine that: (i) there is a threat or attack on any Cognition IP; (ii) your use or any of your Authorized User's use of the Cognition IP disrupts or poses a security risk to Cognition IP or to any other Cognition customer or vendor; (iii) you or your Authorized Users are using the Cognition IP for fraudulent or illegal activities; (iv) you have ceased to continue business in the ordinary course, made an assignment for the benefit of creditors or similar disposition of its assets, or become the subject of any bankruptcy, reorganization, liquidation, dissolution, or similar proceeding.”
§ 2.3
Open citationGenerated from live stance events. Informational only, not legal advice.