Playtester Terms and Rubric

• You must be at least 18 years old and use your own confirmed CLI-Games account.
• Apply while signed in through the certified playtester opportunity and accept the current version of these terms. An application is not a certification and does not authorize compensated testing.
• Certification is invite-only, belongs to one person and account, and cannot be transferred. We may decline an application or revoke or retire a certification.
• Unsolicited reports and activity outside an assigned wave are not compensated.

Wave 2 runs from July 30, 2026 at 10:45 PM UTC through July 30, 2026 at 10:55 PM UTC.

Pay attaches to one certified person in one wave, not to the number of documents or submissions. A tester may submit one structured report per wave.

An issue must include the evidence requested for its category. The first confirmed report of an issue receives the bonus. Anything on the known-issues list shown before submission is excluded.

No compensation is duewhen the activity minimums are not met (unless a person records an override in the tester's favor), the report is fabricated or plagiarized, or the tester breaches these terms, including the testing-scope limits in section 09.

Base-only example: A tester completes the form, meets the activity minimums, and describes genuine reactions, but reports no new confirmed issues. Total: $10.

Bonus example: A tester completes a verified report and is first to document one reproducible dead end and one inaccurate command behavior with a manual-page reference. Both are confirmed. Total: $20.

Payment eligibility requires server-side records showing all of the following during the assigned wave:

• At least 15 commands.
• Activity on at least 1 separate UTC days.
• At least 6 minutes of recorded active play. Idle and hidden-tab time does not count.
• At least 3 distinct games started.

We also compare concrete-recall answers with the account's records. A funnel-answer mismatch is reviewed by a person and is not an automatic failure. An operator may override a failed check in the tester's favor.

CLI-Games respects analytics privacy settings. If activity recording is disabled, the records needed for paid verification will not exist; certified testers must enable it while performing an assigned wave. Run privacy analytics status before starting. Browser Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signals keep optional analytics off.

Reports must describe your own observations from your own play. Fabricated, plagiarized, or wholly machine-generated reports are not compensated and may end the certification. Tools may help you organize or edit your writing, but they cannot replace the underlying play or evidence.

Only the first confirmed report of the same underlying issue receives the bonus. We publish the current known-issues list and show it at the top of the report form before submission. Those issues are not eligible for additional payment, though they may still be discussed in the experience questions.

• Payments are made in USD through PayPal within 7 days after scoring, provided the recipient supplies accurate payment information and the provider accepts the transfer.
• We send an itemized scoring notice and keep an internal payout ledger. The ledger records amount, status, and a payment reference rather than a payment-account handle.
• You are responsible for taxes and any accurate payment information required by the payment provider.
• Participation does not create an employment, partnership, agency, or continuing-work relationship.

For this program we record the application, adult attestation, account and certification identifiers, device and experience segment, gameplay telemetry described above, report contents, scoring decisions, notices, payout amount, and payment reference. We do not put payout totals on a public leaderboard.

Certification may place a “Certified Playtester” collectible and title on the account's public player profile. Routine retirement after a completed wave keeps the collectible as an alumni record. Revocation removes it.

Report contents may be quoted internally for development and grouped with similar findings. Pseudonymous finding IDs and report excerpts may be sent to Anthropic's API to suggest duplicate clusters and categories. Those suggestions do not decide eligibility, finding confirmation, scores, or payment; a person reviews every disposition. See the general Privacy Policy for account and analytics practices.

Until submission, the report form saves a draft in this browser's local storage. It is cleared after successful submission or when the server confirms that the wave report already exists.

Each wave is finite. CLI-Games may pause or end the program at any time. Rubric, verification, or process changes apply only to future waves after they are published; they do not reduce an already-open wave's published compensation.

Test the experience: play games, learn the material, explore the world, and report where it is inaccurate, confusing, contradictory, or broken. Do not conduct vulnerability research against production.

Automated scanning or fuzzing, load generation, denial of service, and attempts to access another person's account or data are prohibited and end the certification. The Range is the sanctioned place for offensive skills.

If ordinary play appears to reveal a genuine security issue, stop testing and email [email protected]. It will be handled separately and is not a finding under this rubric.

These terms supplement the general Terms of Service.