Beta Programme Terms

Beta · Version 1.0 · effective 1 September 2026

Versions are numbered independently of the software release. A major bump (1.0 → 2.0) changes the substance and we ask you to accept the new text; a minor bump (1.0 → 1.1) is wording or typo repair and changes nothing you agreed to. Superseded versions stay online at their own address.

These terms govern participation in the AgentoNest closed beta. By installing or running AgentoNest you accept them. If you do not accept them, do not install it.

1. What you are getting

AgentoNest is beta software. It is incomplete, under daily development, and has not been through independent security or reliability review.

Concretely, you should expect:

• Bugs, including ones that produce wrong numbers on screen.
• Breaking changes between versions, sometimes without a migration path.
• Data loss. A migration can fail, a release can regress, a disk can die.
• Downtime, and features that disappear or change shape without notice.

Backups. You run the installation, so backups are yours — but the app takes a database dump before an upgrade when you ask it to, with the box already ticked when the release touches your records, and you may untick it. It will not do it behind your back, and it will not refuse to continue because you declined. We rehearse the backup and restore round trip on every release and still cannot promise it will be enough on your machine, with your disk, at the moment you need it. Verify a restore before you trust one, and keep a copy somewhere that is not the computer holding the original.

If you install into a rented server, that is your Hetzner account, reached with your API token: the server is yours and so is the bill. We never see it and cannot reach it. The wizard runs our script there; if it provisions badly, the cost lands on your invoice. Nothing bills through us, and nothing stops billing because you stopped using the app.

The Software is provided as is and as available, without warranty of any kind. Nothing here is a promise that it will work, keep working, or keep your data.

To the fullest extent permitted by law we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and any warranty arising from a course of dealing or from usage of trade. We do not warrant that the Software will be uninterrupted, secure or timely, that it is free of errors, defects, viruses or other harmful components, or that any defect will be corrected. Nothing in this section excludes a warranty or a liability that cannot lawfully be excluded — see section 13.

2. Do not rely on it for anything that matters

Do not use AgentoNest as your only record of anything you cannot afford to lose: tax records, medical history, legal deadlines, financial books. Keep the authoritative copy somewhere else.

Its output is not professional advice. The finance and tax modules produce drafts for a human to check. You, not the copyright holder, remain responsible for what you file with any authority.

3. Back up your own data

You run the installation, so backups are yours. A backup script is provided and documented, but running it, verifying it and storing the result somewhere safe is your responsibility. Verify a restore before you trust one.

4. Your licence, and its limits

You may run one installation for your own household’s private, non-commercial use.

You may not:

• give, sell, publish or otherwise distribute the Software or any part of it;
• run it for anyone outside your household, or offer it as a service;
• reverse-engineer, decompile, or remove or alter licence and copyright notices;
• publish source code, internal documentation, screenshots of internals, or benchmark results without written permission;
• copy or recreate the product — its code, interface, wording, structure or documentation — as a separate product, whether by hand or with automated tools;
• use the Software, this site or its documentation as training material or as input for an AI assistant tasked with reproducing, cloning or deriving a competing product;
• probe, scan or test the vulnerability of any system we operate — this site, the support inbox, the telemetry endpoint, the release repository — or breach, circumvent or defeat any security or authentication measure on them;
• harvest, scrape or extract data from those services by automated means, or send them traffic designed to degrade them;
• use the Software to process, on behalf of anyone outside your household, data subject to a regulatory regime — patient records, cardholder data and the like.

This licence is personal, non-transferable and revocable. It is not a purchase and it grants no ownership.

None of this reaches third-party components. AgentoNest is built on software written by other people, some of it under licences that grant you more than this section does — including the right to copy and pass those components on. Where that is so, their licence governs them and nothing here narrows it. What travels with the product, and under whose terms, is listed in the THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md file shipped inside the application.

4a. Do not fork it for yourself

You may not modify the Software — but beyond the licence, there is a practical reason worth stating plainly.

AgentoNest is a living system: the database schema, the tool catalogue and the migrations move with every release. The moment you start changing your copy, it diverges. The next update will expect a shape your installation no longer has, migrations will not apply cleanly, and you will be left choosing between your changes and every future version — with your household’s records caught in between.

If something is missing, ask for it instead: the fix queue costs you a sentence, and a feature built into the product keeps working after the next update. If you want something bigger than a feature, write to support@agentonest.com.

5. Your data stays yours

AgentoNest ships no telemetry unless you switch it on: no analytics, no usage beacons, no silent phone-home. During setup you are offered — separately from accepting these terms, and unticked by default — an anonymous install ping carrying a random instance identifier, the app version, the platform and the release channel. It says nothing about your household, carries no hostname and no locale, and no IP address is stored on receipt. Refusing it blocks nothing. A self-hosted installation otherwise reaches the internet only for what you explicitly connect.

Accepting these terms and allowing that ping are two separate decisions. We do not make one conditional on the other, and you can change the ping setting at any time without losing access to anything.

We do not train models on anything of yours, and we could not: your household’s data lives on your machine and never reaches us. Cloud AI models that you connect do receive what you send them, and are then governed by that provider’s own terms — choose them on that basis. Models running locally send nothing outward at all.

Two things do leave your machine, and only when you choose them:

• Support requests. If you send one, the message and the diagnostic context you attach reach the vendor support inbox. Identifiers are scrubbed before sending and you see the scrubbed text before it goes. Do not paste passwords, tokens or documents into a ticket.
• Services you connect yourself — a bank, a calendar, a cloud AI model. Each is off until you turn it on, and each is then governed by that provider’s own terms. Local models send nothing outward.

5a. You are the controller of your household’s data

Running AgentoNest for your own family is a purely personal or household activity, and the GDPR does not apply to such processing (Art. 2(2)(c)). That exemption is what lets you keep your family’s health records, finances and photographs in it without becoming a data controller in the regulatory sense.

Two things end the exemption. If data leaves the household — federation with another family, an export you pass on — that sharing is no longer a household activity, and the ordinary rules apply to it. And if you run the Software for a business, for clients, or for people you are not related to, it was never a household activity at all; that use is outside the licence in section 4 for exactly this reason.

Within your household, you decide who is invited and what each member may see. The copyright holder has no access to your installation and cannot recover, unlock or restore anything from it for you.

6. What the assistant does, and what it cannot promise

AgentoNest is driven by an AI assistant, and that changes what you should expect of it.

Its answers can be wrong. Language models produce fluent text whether or not the underlying fact is true. They invent figures, misread documents, confuse one person with another, and state incorrect things with complete confidence. Output that reads authoritative is not thereby correct. Do not treat anything the assistant tells you as a source of truth — check it against the underlying record before you act on it.

It acts on your behalf. This is not a chat window. At your request the assistant writes to your books, edits and deletes records, sends email and messages, talks to the services you connected, places orders and signs documents — in your name and with your authority. It can do the wrong one of those things: post to the wrong account, write to the wrong person, delete something you wanted kept. You are responsible for what it does at your request, exactly as you are for what you do yourself. Review anything consequential before it goes out, and keep the backups section 3 asks of you.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we accept no liability for the content of the assistant’s output, or for actions it takes on your instruction. Section 13 says what that means, and where it stops.

7. Feedback, fix requests and feature ideas

You can ask for a bug to be fixed, or for a new module or feature, from inside AgentoNest. Doing so is a service we offer, not an obligation we owe: we may implement a request, implement it differently, or not at all, and we are not required to reply. Nothing you send creates a duty for us or a claim for you. The same goes for support generally — we answer when we can, and any help given is a courtesy rather than a contractual duty.

What sending gives us. An idea as such is not protected by copyright — only its expression is. But a request may carry expression: code, text, a mock-up, a screenshot of a design. So, for anything you send us, you grant a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free right of use, including the right to sublicense, to use, modify and exploit it in AgentoNest and any related product, in any form and by any means. Your own copyright stays yours — under German law it cannot be transferred anyway (§ 29 UrhG); this is a licence, not an assignment.

What it does not give you. A function, design, interface or piece of code that we build, fix or refine after your request belongs to us. Suggesting something creates no co-authorship, no share, no attribution right and no claim to payment, now or later — including if we ship it commercially.

What you promise us. That you are entitled to send what you send: that it is your own, or that you hold the rights to pass it on. Do not send anyone else's code, confidential material from an employer, or anything you are not free to give away.

What we do with it. Requests are read to improve AgentoNest for everyone who runs it, not only for the household that sent them. A fix you ask for ships to every installation; a feature you suggest becomes part of the product. That is the trade: your sentence makes the thing better for the next family too.

What actually leaves your machine when you send a request, and what happens to it afterwards, is described in the Privacy Notice.

8. Your installation’s security is yours

You run the server, so securing it is your job. That covers the machine and the network it sits on, the operating system and its updates, the master password to the vault, the access tokens you issue, the credentials of every service you connect, and which people you invite into the household and what you let them see.

We have no access to your installation. We cannot read it, reset a password in it, unlock a vault, revoke one of your tokens or recover anything from it — not as a favour and not on request, because no route exists by which we could. If you lose your master password, the data encrypted under it is gone. That is the design, and it is the same property that makes a stolen database dump useless to whoever stole it.

Tell us promptly if you believe something has been compromised in a way that touches us — a leaked token that reaches our services, say — so that we can revoke on our side. The installation itself remains yours to repair.

9. Who may accept these terms

You must be 18, or the age of majority where you live if that is higher, to accept these terms and install the Software.

You accept them for your household. You are the person we deal with, and you are responsible for everyone you give access to, children included. If someone you invited breaks these terms, that is your breach as much as theirs. If you are accepting on behalf of an organisation you warrant that you may bind it — though running the Software for an organisation is outside the licence in section 4.

10. Price and future changes

Beta participation is free. This is not a promise that AgentoNest will be free later, nor that beta participants get any particular future terms. Pricing and licensing after the beta are not settled.

11. Ending it

You may stop at any time: delete the installation and its data.

The copyright holder may end the beta, or any individual participation, at any time and without cause. On termination, stop using the Software and delete your copies. Your own data remains yours — export it before you delete.

We may equally stop developing AgentoNest, stop publishing updates, or shut down the services around it — this site, the support inbox, the release repository — at any time, without cause and without liability for having done so.

What that does not do is take the product away from you. AgentoNest runs on your machine, on your data, and it keeps running whether or not we do. You would lose future updates and the services listed above. You would not lose the installation.

12. You cover claims caused by your use

If a third party brings a claim against us because of what you did with the Software, you cover it. You will indemnify and hold harmless the copyright holder against any such claim, and against the reasonable costs of defending it, where it arises from:

• your use of the Software in breach of these terms or of any law;
• your infringement of anyone’s intellectual property, privacy, confidentiality or personality rights;
• data you put into the Software that you had no right to put there;
• anything done by a person you gave access to.

We will tell you promptly of any such claim, will not settle it without your agreement, and you may take over the defence at your own cost. This section does not cover a claim caused by our own breach, and it applies only so far as the law allows — in particular, if you are a consumer it does not reach claims that did not arise from your own fault.

13. Liability

Start here: nothing below removes what the law will not let us remove. We are liable without limit for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the Produkthaftungsgesetz, and for anything covered by a guarantee we gave. If you are a consumer your statutory rights are unaffected, and mandatory consumer-protection rules of your country of residence continue to apply. Read the rest of this section subject to this paragraph.

No indirect loss. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, nor for loss of profit, revenue, goodwill, reputation, time, business or opportunity — however caused, on any theory of liability, in contract, tort, statute or otherwise, and whether or not we had been told such loss was possible.

Simple negligence. Where we are liable for simple negligence at all, that liability exists only for breach of an obligation whose fulfilment makes performance of this agreement possible in the first place and on which you may routinely rely, and it is limited to the loss foreseeable and typical for an agreement of this kind.

Data. Liability for loss of data is limited to the cost of recovering that data from a backup you would have held had you kept backups properly, as section 3 requires of you.

Cap. Subject to the first paragraph, our total liability for all claims taken together is limited to €100. The beta is free of charge; you pay us nothing, and this is the figure we stand behind.

The limits are the deal. These limits are an essential part of the bargain between us — the Software is provided free precisely on this basis — and they apply even if a limited remedy is found to have failed of its essential purpose.

14. Time limit on claims

Any claim you have against us must be brought within 12 months of the day you knew, or ought reasonably to have known, of the facts giving rise to it. After that it is time-barred.

This does not apply to claims for which the law forbids a shortened period — in particular the claims named in the first paragraph of section 13.

15. Disputes

Talk to us first. Before either of us starts proceedings, whoever has the complaint sends the other a written notice describing the dispute and the outcome sought. The other has 30 days to propose a time to discuss it. Neither of us may start proceedings until 45 days after that notice was sent. This step is a condition of bringing a claim, and the period in section 14 pauses while it runs.

Individually, not collectively. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each of us may bring claims against the other only on an individual basis — not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated or representative proceeding — and a court may award relief only in favour of the individual party seeking it. Where applicable law gives you a right to take part in a representative action that cannot be waived, this paragraph does not touch that right.

Nothing here is an arbitration agreement. A dispute that survives the step above goes to the courts named in section 16.

16. Law and venue

These terms, and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them, are governed by German law, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

Where the law permits the parties to agree a place of jurisdiction — in particular where you are a merchant, a legal person under public law or a public special fund (§ 38 ZPO), or where you have no general place of jurisdiction in Germany — the courts at the copyright holder’s seat have exclusive jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, the statutory rules decide where you may sue and be sued, and mandatory consumer-protection rules of your country of residence continue to apply.

We are neither willing nor obliged to take part in dispute-resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (§ 36 VSBG).

17. Miscellaneous

Entire agreement. These terms and the licence are the whole of what is agreed between us about the Software, and replace anything said or written beforehand. Where the two disagree, the licence wins.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer your rights under these terms without our written consent. We may assign ours freely, including as part of a transfer of the business.

No waiver. If we do not enforce something, that is not a waiver of it; and waiving one breach does not waive the next.

Severability. If a provision is held invalid or unenforceable, the rest stays in force, and that provision applies to the greatest extent the law does allow.

Electronic communication. You agree that we may communicate with you electronically, and that notices and agreements delivered that way satisfy any requirement that they be in writing.

Export and sanctions. You must comply with applicable export-control and sanctions law. You may not use the Software, or let it be used, in or for the benefit of a country, entity or person subject to embargo or listed under such measures.

Questions

Write to support@agentonest.com.