Terms of Service for Dispatch
Effective 31 August 2026.
These terms cover Dispatch, an open-source plugin for Obsidian and its accompanying scripts, published by Kai Mysliwiec at github.com/kaimys/obsidian-dispatch.
By installing or using Dispatch, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not install it.
1. What Dispatch is, and what it is not
Dispatch is software you run on your own computer. It is not a hosted service. There is no account, no subscription, no server operated by the developer, and no data of yours held anywhere by the developer.
Dispatch is provided free of charge under the MIT licence. Those licence terms govern your rights to use, copy, modify and redistribute the software; these terms cover your use of it.
2. Your responsibilities
- Your Google account. If you enable the meeting-import feature, you authorise Dispatch to read meeting artifacts from your own Google Drive using your own credentials. You are responsible for keeping those credentials secure, for having the right to access the content you import, and for complying with Google's Terms of Service.
- Your recordings. Recording and transcribing meetings is regulated in many jurisdictions and often requires the consent of the participants. Dispatch imports transcripts that Google Meet has already produced; obtaining consent to produce them is yours to handle, not Dispatch's.
- Your data. Dispatch writes to the markdown files in your vault, including moving cards, rewriting frontmatter and adding downloaded content. Keep backups. Use version control. The developer cannot recover anything for you.
- Your commands. See section 3.
3. Dispatch launches programs you configure
This is the central thing to understand before using Dispatch.
Dispatch's "chips" and board automations execute command-line programs on your computer using command templates that you supply in your own device-local configuration. Dispatch does not ship, endorse or vet those programs; it starts them, passes them the arguments you configured, and observes that they ran.
You are solely responsible for what you configure Dispatch to run and for everything those programs do — including any file they change, any command they execute, any cost they incur and any data they transmit. AI coding agents in particular act with your permissions and can modify or delete your files.
Dispatch is designed so that commands and filesystem paths live only in device-local configuration and never in synced notes, precisely so that a shared note cannot cause someone else's machine to run something. Do not defeat that boundary.
4. Third-party services
Dispatch interoperates with services operated by others — Google, GitHub, Anthropic, OpenAI and whatever else you point it at. Those services are governed by their own terms and policies. The developer is not a party to your relationship with them, is not responsible for their availability, and cannot help you with their accounts.
5. No warranty
Dispatch is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
The developer does not warrant that Dispatch will be uninterrupted, error-free, compatible with any particular version of Obsidian or of any third-party service, or that it will preserve your data. It is a hobby project maintained at the developer's discretion.
6. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the developer shall not be liable for any claim, damages or other liability — whether in contract, tort or otherwise — arising from or in connection with Dispatch or its use, including any loss of data, loss of work, corruption of files, or costs incurred by programs Dispatch launched.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for intent or gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, or any other liability that cannot be excluded under mandatory applicable law.
7. Availability and changes to the software
The developer may change, break, or stop developing Dispatch at any time, without notice and without obligation. Because it is open-source and MIT-licensed, you may always continue to use, fork and maintain the version you have.
8. Changes to these terms
These terms may be revised. Revisions are published on this page with a new effective date, and every revision is visible in the project's public history. Continued use after a change constitutes acceptance of it.
9. Governing law
These terms are governed by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Where you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of your country of habitual residence.
10. Severability
If any provision of these terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in full effect.
Contact
Kai Mysliwiec — kai@eightnine.de Project: github.com/kaimys/obsidian-dispatch