Terms of Use

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These Terms of Use govern your use of agentic-system.design (the “Website”), an independent technical publication operated by Nikita Galkin.

Please read these Terms before using the Website. By continuing to use the Website, you acknowledge that these Terms apply to your use of it.

1. Purpose of the Website

agentic-system.design publishes technical and educational content about software architecture, agentic systems, engineering practices, technologies, standards, and related topics.

Content may include technical explanations, architecture guidance, examples, opinions and analysis, diagrams, illustrations, learning materials, and references to external documentation, research, products, services, and standards.

All content is provided for informational and educational purposes only.

You are responsible for evaluating whether information published on the Website is appropriate for your particular circumstances before applying it to production systems or other real-world decisions.

Nothing on the Website constitutes legal, financial, medical, or other regulated professional advice.

2. Accuracy and Changes

Reasonable efforts are made to provide useful and accurate information. However, technical information changes over time, and no guarantee is made that Website content is complete, error-free, current, or suitable for a particular purpose.

Technologies, APIs, software products, standards, security practices, third-party documentation, and other referenced materials may change after content is published.

Content may be corrected, updated, reorganized, replaced, or removed without notice.

The Website or particular content may also be temporarily or permanently unavailable.

3. Independent Publication and Third-Party Brands

agentic-system.design is an independent publication.

Unless explicitly stated otherwise, the Website is not sponsored by, endorsed by, affiliated with, or operated by any company, technology vendor, standards organization, or other third party referenced on the Website.

Third-party company names, product names, service names, trademarks, logos, and other brand identifiers remain the property of their respective owners.

References to third parties may be used for identification, education, commentary, comparison, research, or technical reference. Such references do not by themselves imply endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation.

4. Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise stated, original content created for agentic-system.design is owned by Nikita Galkin and is protected by applicable intellectual property laws.

This may include original text, diagrams, illustrations, learning materials, downloadable resources, and the original selection, arrangement, and presentation of Website content to the extent protected by applicable law.

You may use the Website in ordinary ways, including:

  • reading and referencing its content;
  • linking to Website pages;
  • sharing links to Website content; and
  • quoting limited excerpts with appropriate attribution where permitted by applicable law.

Without permission, you may not:

  • republish substantial portions of the Website;
  • systematically reproduce, clone, or mirror the publication;
  • resell or commercially redistribute substantial portions of its content;
  • remove attribution or notices associated with copied material; or
  • present Website content as your own original work or otherwise misrepresent its authorship.

These Terms do not claim ownership over third-party materials, third-party trademarks, linked resources, public facts, or ideas and concepts that are not subject to intellectual property protection.

Where specific content is published under a separate license or accompanied by different usage terms, those terms apply to that content.

5. Automated Access

The Website may use technical measures to manage automated traffic and protect its availability.

Automated access must not be used to:

  • systematically extract, copy, or download substantial portions of the Website for republication, dataset creation, model training, or other bulk reuse without permission;
  • bypass technical access controls or restrictions;
  • perform malicious or abusive scraping;
  • generate traffic that materially degrades Website availability or performance; or
  • otherwise interfere with normal operation of the Website.

These Terms do not prohibit normal search-engine indexing, legitimate research, ordinary user-directed agents or tools, or automated access expressly permitted by the Website’s applicable technical policies, provided such access is not abusive.

Technical policies governing automated access may change independently of these Terms.

6. Acceptable Use

You must not use the Website in a way that:

  • interferes with or disrupts its operation;
  • attempts to gain unauthorized access to systems, infrastructure, or data;
  • bypasses security or access controls;
  • generates malicious or abusive automated traffic;
  • violates applicable law; or
  • presents copied Website content as the user’s own original work or otherwise misrepresents its authorship.

The Website may restrict or block access that is malicious, abusive, violates these Terms, or attempts to bypass security or technical controls.

The Website may link to or reference third-party websites, documentation, research, software, services, tools, and standards.

agentic-system.design does not control third-party websites or services and is not responsible for their availability, content, security, practices, or continued accuracy.

A link or reference does not mean that agentic-system.design endorses every statement, product, service, or practice associated with that third party.

Your use of third-party websites and services is governed by their own terms and policies.

8. Disclaimer of Warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Website and its content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

No guarantee is made that the Website or its content will always be available, complete, accurate, current, error-free, secure, or suitable for any particular purpose.

Nothing in these Terms excludes any warranty or right that cannot legally be excluded.

9. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Nikita Galkin, as the operator of agentic-system.design, will not be liable for loss or damage resulting from or related to:

  • reliance on information published on the Website;
  • technical, architectural, operational, or other decisions made using Website content;
  • information that has become outdated, incomplete, or inaccurate;
  • temporary or permanent unavailability of the Website; or
  • third-party websites, software, services, or resources referenced by the Website.

You remain responsible for validating information and making appropriate technical, security, operational, and business decisions for your own circumstances.

Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability where doing so would be prohibited by applicable law.

10. Changes to the Website

agentic-system.design may modify, reorganize, add, or remove content or Website features at any time.

There is no obligation to maintain a particular article, resource, feature, URL, or publication structure indefinitely.

11. Changes to These Terms

These Terms may be updated from time to time to reflect changes to the Website, its operation, or applicable requirements.

The Last updated date at the top of this page indicates when these Terms were most recently revised.

Unless otherwise required by applicable law, updates apply prospectively from the date indicated at the top of this page.

12. Privacy

Information about how personal data is handled is provided separately in the Privacy Policy.

These Terms do not replace or modify the Privacy Policy.

13. Contact

For questions about these Terms or the Website, please use the contact information provided on the Contact page.