ToolsEnabled was founded and created by Joshua Pinckard. The original platform was developed by directing autonomous AI-agent fleets through the system's own evolving coordination architecture.
| Company / copyright holder | ToolsEnabled, Inc. (copyright held personally — see Legal status) |
| Sole founder and creator | Joshua Pinckard |
| Official product | ToolsEnabled |
| Official publisher | ToolsEnabled, Inc. |
Outside developers are listed in CONTRIBUTORS.md as contributors and
maintainers. Contributors are never founders; the founder credit above is not shared.
ToolsEnabled is a capability layer that gives an AI agent a governed set of real tools — a policy kernel that decides what is allowed, a tamper-evident audit ledger that records what happened, and a provider surface that performs the work.
It ships with a reference interface of the same name: the fleet, the agents, the approvals, the spend ledger and the audit trail in one place. The interface does not have a separate name, because it is not a separate product — it is what ToolsEnabled looks like.
It is one free product, licensed under the MIT license. You can run it two ways today:
- Locally, on one machine.
- Over your own LAN, from one machine to another you already control.
Neither requires an account with us, and neither is time-limited or feature-gated. The free product is the whole product for anyone who can reach their own machines.
Self-hosting — running the relay yourself, on infrastructure you operate, so that machines on different networks reach each other without us — is planned and is not available yet. The relay's source publishes under the same MIT license when it lands. We would rather tell you it is coming than imply it is here.
ToolsEnabled Anywhere is a separate, optional, paid service for the one problem the free product deliberately does not solve: reaching your machines when you are not on the same network. It provides managed non-LAN connectivity, device enrollment, the relay, monitoring, recovery and support. Planned pricing is $19/month, or $190/year.
Anywhere is a hosted service, not a feature unlock. Nothing in this repository is disabled to sell it. The free product launches first; Anywhere follows as an invite-only beta.
The official project will live under the ToolsEnabled GitHub organization, which today holds only the organization's profile page — no product repository, no releases, no issue tracker. ToolsEnabled, Inc. controls the official repository, the releases, the project's names and marks, and the signed installers.
Anyone may fork this project and propose changes. Only approved code enters the official build. A fork is your own; it is not the official product and must not present itself as the official build or as published by ToolsEnabled, Inc.
That last limit is a trademark one, not a restriction on the code: your rights in the code
are MIT's in full, and renaming a fork is always enough to satisfy it. The distinction
is drawn out in COMMERCIAL-LICENSE.md, which also covers what
is actually paid for — which is us operating a server, not any licence to the code.
Cloud infrastructure, billing, provisioning, security operations and internal development tooling are developed separately and are not intended to be part of this repository.
What the official build actually redistributes is not left to that sentence to enforce.
It is declared in config/payload-boundary.json and checked by a gate on every release
build, which fails rather than warns. That file is the current answer; prose in a README
is not.
One distinction in that file is easy to read the wrong way, so it is worth stating here.
A path marked excluded or paid is one the build measurably no longer ships, and the
gate fails if it reappears. A path marked pending is one where the decision has been
made but the file still ships today. The gate's "clean" verdict is only about the
first kind. To know what is actually in a build, read the pending list, not the last
line of the output.
Stated plainly, because a public repository is a dated, permanent record:
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ToolsEnabled, Inc. is the publisher. Copyright is held personally by Joshua Pinckard until the rights are assigned to the company. At that point the copyright holder line changes.
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No trademark application has been filed for "ToolsEnabled", and it is not claimed here as a registered mark.
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The interface was previously called "Mission Control", and that name has been dropped. A USPTO search returned 17 live marks for it in the relevant classes, including one held by Apple Inc. (Reg. 4240125, IC 009, covering graphical user interface software) and one held by BMC Software. "ToolsEnabled" returned no hits, live or dead. The name was changed before launch rather than after, because once a name is in forks, package registries and third-party redistributions it cannot be recalled.
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The license is in force. This, the free product, is released under the MIT License. The grant is made by
LICENSE; if anything here disagrees with that file, that file controls. You may use, modify, redistribute and sell it, including inside a closed-source product, provided the copyright and permission notices travel with the copies you hand on. What is paid for is us operating a server — the hosted relay, the secure phone path, the hosted vault — and connecting to your own server instead costs nothing. The governance of the official build is inCOMMERCIAL-LICENSE.md. -
Bundled third-party components keep their own licenses. Their notices and full texts are reproduced in
THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.md, which ships with the installer because the SIL Open Font, Apache-2.0 and BSD-3-Clause terms require the notices to travel with the binary rather than merely be listed in a manifest.Outside contributions are open, under the Developer Certificate of Origin: sign off each commit with
git commit -sand your change is contributed under the same MIT terms. There is no copyright assignment and nothing to sign. Why a DCO rather than a CLA — and what a DCO does not give the project — is set out inCONTRIBUTING.md. See alsoLICENSING.mdfor why the project moved from AGPL to MIT, andCONTRIBUTORS.md.None of this has been reviewed by a lawyer.
Pre-release. This repository is not yet public.
ToolsEnabled — created by Joshua Pinckard, sole founder. Published by ToolsEnabled, Inc. Copyright © 2026 Joshua Pinckard.