(1) Inside the HQ download

HQ itself has no npm dependencies; it runs on Node.js's built-in modules. Two agent skills ship in its skills folder, each with its license file next to it:

awwwards skill

MIT License, by tponscr-debug. Source: github.com/tponscr-debug/claude-skill-awwwards, whose README declares MIT. Shipped in skills/awwwards; the full MIT text is below.

frontend-design skill

Apache License 2.0. Shipped in skills/frontend-design with the full license text in LICENSE.txt. Full text: apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.

Both licenses allow redistribution as long as the license text travels with the files.

MIT License

Copyright (c) tponscr-debug (claude-skill-awwwards)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE 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 NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

(2) Installed for you, not bundled

HQ downloads these from their official sources when you need them. They are not part of the HQ zip, and each is under its own license:

Node.js

MIT License, via winget (OpenJS.NodeJS.LTS).

Claude Code

Anthropic's software, installed from npm under Anthropic's own terms.

Codex CLI

Apache License 2.0, by OpenAI, installed from npm.

cloudflared

Apache License 2.0, by Cloudflare, via winget, only if you turn on phone access from anywhere.

(3) Loaded at runtime

qrcode-generator 1.4.4

MIT License, by Kazuhiko Arase, loaded from cdn.jsdelivr.net to draw the phone pairing code.

(4) This website

GSAP 3.15 and ScrollTrigger

GreenSock Standard "No Charge" License, free including commercial use: gsap.com/standard-license.

Lenis 1.3

MIT License, by darkroom.engineering.

Matter.js 0.20

MIT License, by Liam Brummitt.

Geist

SIL Open Font License 1.1, by The Geist Project Authors (Vercel).

Each file keeps its own copyright header in /assets/vendor.

(5) Trademarks

Claude and Claude Code (Anthropic), ChatGPT and Codex (OpenAI), Roblox, Vercel, Hostinger, Cloudflare, pump.fun and X belong to their owners. HQ isn't affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.