AI Usage Policy

Last updated: March 2026

Skillet uses AI to help you explore ideas, draft recipes, and refine your cooking. This policy explains how it works, what data is involved, and — importantly — where AI falls short.

What AI Does in Skillet

AI is woven into several parts of the platform:

• Recipe Generation — Describe a dish, a craving, or a set of constraints. AI produces a structured recipe draft with ingredients, steps, and notes.
• Recipe Refinement — Working on an existing recipe? Ask AI to suggest adjustments — different techniques, ingredient swaps, scaling for more servings, or simplification for weeknight cooking.
• Recipe Import — Paste in a recipe from anywhere (a blog post, a family email, scrawled notes). AI parses it into Skillet's structured format.
• Culinary Journeys — AI helps build progressive learning paths through a cuisine or technique family.
• Skill Guides — AI generates focused practice briefs for specific techniques.

What Data Reaches the AI

When you trigger an AI feature, we send the relevant context to our AI provider:

• The prompt or question you wrote
• The recipe content you're working on (ingredients, steps, notes)
• Relevant feature context (e.g., "this is a refinement request")

We do not send your email, password, account history, or unrelated recipes. Each AI request is scoped to the content you're actively working with.

Our AI Provider

Skillet currently uses OpenAI's API. Under our agreement with OpenAI, data sent through the API is not used to train their models. OpenAI's own usage policies apply to data in transit.

If we change providers, we'll update this policy.

Limitations — Read This Carefully

AI-generated recipes are drafts and suggestions. They are not reviewed by a chef, nutritionist, or food safety expert before reaching you.

What AI gets wrong:

• Measurements can be imprecise or occasionally nonsensical
• Cooking times and temperatures may be inaccurate
• Steps may be incomplete, out of order, or assume equipment you don't have
• Allergens and dietary restrictions are not reliably detected or avoided
• Food safety rules (internal temperatures, cross-contamination, storage) are not guaranteed

Your responsibility: Every recipe you cook — whether you wrote it, AI drafted it, or you imported it from elsewhere — is your responsibility to review. Check measurements. Verify temperatures. Consider allergies. Use a food thermometer.

Skillet's AI is a creative collaborator. It's good at generating ideas and structure. It is not a food safety authority.

Ownership

AI-generated content you create through Skillet lives in your workspace. You can edit it, version it, and use it like any other recipe. Keep in mind that AI outputs aren't guaranteed to be unique — similar prompts from different users may yield similar results.

Changes

We'll update this policy as our AI features evolve. Significant changes will be noted here with an updated date.

Questions

Have concerns about how AI works in Skillet? Email support@skillet.studio — we're happy to explain.