Start with the channel change
Choose the person or household the agreement is for and one ordinary purpose for the AI tool. Start narrow rather than writing a universal rule.
Open the companion tool →Why this matters
A useful agreement names what the tool is for, what does not belong in it, and what happens when the situation is high-stakes or emotionally urgent. It also gives every person a voice in changing the agreement.
The generator is intentionally private and non-scored. It does not infer dependency from a chat history and it does not ask for the contents of anyone’s conversations.
The protocol
- Choose the person or household the agreement is for and one ordinary purpose for the AI tool. Start narrow rather than writing a universal rule.
- Add one privacy boundary: no passwords, private identifying details, or another person’s story without permission.
- Add a human-backup rule for health, safety, legal, financial, or overwhelming situations. Name a person or service to contact.
- Set a review date. A changed tool, schedule, age, or need is a reason to revise the agreement, not evidence that someone failed.
A boundary you can actually use
A ready agreement has a purpose, a privacy line, a human-backup line, and a review date. It should sound like an invitation to pause and ask for help, not surveillance language.
Limit first: This is a planning worksheet, not a mental-health assessment or a substitute for a clinician, trusted adult, or crisis support. If someone may be in immediate danger, use local emergency or crisis resources rather than an AI tool.
Build your household ai use agreement →One human next step
Ask the person affected whether the agreement feels fair and what support they want from a human. Do not monitor private AI conversations as a shortcut to a conversation.
Research log and safety checks
AI-assist path: not applicable. The protective function is a consent-based agreement generator; inferring a person’s relationship from private chat content would overreach. §6.10: not a frontier-pace topic.
§0.5 protection result: category is chatbot-dependency-check; crisis-adjacent: no; fear/urgency/scarcity toolkit used: no. The protective function is free and the paid feature is convenience only.