Here's what people ask before they install — answered plainly.
Does Dryx send my workspace anywhere?
No. Your workspace never leaves your machine and verdicts run offline; any Ecosystem Contribution is opt-in. You can verify it with Little Snitch — the agent reaches Dryx over loopback-only IPC. What touches the network? →
Can a prompt injection talk Dryx into allowing something?
No. Dryx sits beside your agents, not in the conversation. The gate reads the action, not the argument — an injection can win with the model and still lose to the gate.
Does Dryx slow my agent down?
A verdict comes back in under 10ms. The slow analysis runs once; the hot path just checks the precomputed answer, and Dryx stays silent on the safe majority of actions.
Which agents does Dryx cover?
Dryx maps every AI agent on your Mac — Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex CLI, Cline, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Gemini, Ollama, LM Studio, and any other — and any MCP-capable agent can consult the Authority Anchor before it acts.
Is Dryx really free?
Yes — Free is genuinely useful, not a teaser. It shows your full blast-radius graph, A–F posture, plain-language findings, unlimited Skill Shield, and the Authority Anchor your agents consult before acting. Action Guard Observe logs every action the gate would have held, and a deterministic safety floor refuses the rm-rf class outright wherever the gate is armed. Pro ($19/mo · $149/yr, launch pricing) is the complete individual product: it arms Action Guard Enforce — flagged actions are held before they run on supported harnesses (Claude Code and Claude Desktop today; Codex through its own approval flow; more as harnesses expose hooks) — plus per-layer drill-down, remediation, Drift, Context Shield, monitoring, and exports. Every paid plan is the direct download from dryx.ai; the only Dryx the Mac App Store will ever offer is Dryx Inspect — a free, read-only version.
What does “launch pricing” mean — will my price go up?
No. The price you subscribe at is the price you keep for as long as your Pro subscription stays active — and if it ever ends (you cancel, or a failed payment finally cancels it after retries), you have 90 days from the day it ends to come back at the same rate, once in any 12-month period, with a new billing date when you return. Launch pricing won’t last as Enforce coverage grows — but when the listed price changes, it changes for new subscribers only; existing Pro subscriptions are never repriced upward. If the standard listed price ever drops below yours, you pay the lower one. Switching between monthly and annual keeps your rate either way. Taxes and VAT vary by jurisdiction, and a refunded purchase is a new purchase; Team, Enterprise, and any genuinely separate future product stand on their own — your Pro rate is untouched either way. It’s written into the Terms (Section 3.4) and carved out of the “we may modify these Terms” clause: it can never be changed against you. No countdown clocks, no surprise repricing — early operators simply keep the early price.
Can Mac App Store users turn on Enforce?
No. Enforce — like the Authority Anchor MCP and Observe — ships only in the direct download from dryx.ai. The Mac App Store build (Dryx Inspect) is free, read-only inspection: the blast-radius graph, posture score, findings, and Skill Shield.
Two years of Pro is $298. Founding is $349 — isn’t Pro the better deal?
On pure dollars over two years, yes — annual Pro doesn’t fall behind Founding until about 2.3 years, and we’d rather tell you that than have you find it in a spreadsheet. And if what you want is the living product, Pro wins at every horizon: Pro keeps receiving every new feature indefinitely at your kept rate (the Pro Pricing Promise), while a Founding license stops gaining new features when its two-year window closes. Founding is a different purchase: you own the complete individual feature set outright — a perpetual license that never expires and isn’t a subscription — plus two years of updates, an ongoing security & compatibility floor after that, on up to 3 Macs, with a signed charter and permanent badge marking you as one of at most 300 Founding Members there will ever be. Buy Pro for the growing product. Buy Founding to own the tool and be on the record early. We’d rather concede the spreadsheet than win it dishonestly.
What does a Founding Member get after the 2 years of updates end?
Nothing is taken away. You keep every feature you have, permanently, on up to 3 Macs, and the license never expires. What keeps arriving: security fixes plus compatibility updates, so your feature set keeps installing, activating, and running on new macOS versions — for as long as Dryx operates, with Terms §5.9 pre-committing exactly what happens if we’re ever gone. What stops arriving: new features. The window limits what’s new, never what you own.
What happens to a Founding license if Dryx shuts down or gets acquired?
It keeps working — and the design doesn’t ask you to take our word for it. Your license is a cryptographically signed key verified locally on your Mac: no remote kill switch, no expiry, and Macs you’ve already activated never need our servers to keep running. The only thing that touches our servers is activating a new machine, so that’s exactly what the Terms pre-commit to fixing: if Dryx is discontinued, our activation service is down for 90 days, or the product is sold without the buyer assuming our Founding obligations in writing, we issue perpetual offline license files (or a final build that activates from the license you already hold). A sale without that written assumption itself triggers the continuity commitment. It’s all in Terms §5.9 — written in advance, because that’s the only time an end-of-life promise means something.