Policy
Ad Content Policy
Creative and destination rules for ads served in coding-agent statusline surfaces.
Last updated 2026-06-18
AgentAds ads appear in focused developer-tool wait states. The format is intentionally narrow: one sponsored line, clear advertiser identity, and no confusing system-like instructions.
This policy applies to advertiser-submitted creative text, destinations, brand assets, and related campaign metadata.
Allowed content
- Developer tools, infrastructure, security, observability, education, hiring, and professional products relevant to software builders.
- Clear, truthful, one-line claims tied to the destination page.
- Brand names, icons, and product marks the advertiser has rights to use.
- HTTPS destinations that clearly identify the advertiser and promoted offer.
Not allowed
- Misleading claims, fake urgency, impersonation, unclear sponsorship, or copy that looks like agent/system output.
- Prompt-injection-like text or instructions to reveal code, prompts, secrets, files, tokens, private conversations, or account data.
- Malware, phishing, credential harvesting, exploit sales, instructions for unauthorized access, or forced downloads.
- Adult, gambling, illegal goods, weapons, hate, harassment, political persuasion, or other categories unsuitable for developer-tool surfaces.
- Sensitive personal-data targeting or claims based on protected characteristics.
- Destinations that cloak, redirect to unrelated content, hide the advertiser, or materially change after review.
Creative quality
- Creative must fit a concise statusline format and remain understandable when truncated.
- Creative should name the advertiser or product clearly enough that a developer can tell it is sponsored.
- Creative must not mimic shell commands, warnings, permission prompts, model output, or agent instructions.
- Claims must be supportable from the destination without requiring a reviewer to infer missing context.
Review and enforcement
- Rejected creatives should include a specific reason the advertiser can act on.
- Edited rejected creatives return to pending review before serving.
- AgentAds may pause campaigns, suspend advertisers, remove creatives, or require edits for trust, safety, legal, quality, billing, or support reasons.
- Approval only means the creative may enter the auction; serving still requires a funded wallet, eligible campaign, and normal platform controls.