# Legal, IP, And Liability Strategy

Status: ACTIVE SPECIALIZED SPECIFICATION

Authority: `AGENTREADY_MASTER_PLAN.md`.

AgentReady is:

```txt
an automated static-analysis and decision-support tool
```

## Liability Position

Document and legal terms must reflect:

- obligation of means;
- no result guarantee;
- no runtime guarantee;
- no guarantee against prompt injections;
- no IAM guarantee;
- no infrastructure guarantee;
- no secrets guarantee;
- no dependency guarantee;
- limitation of liability to be legally validated;
- professional/cyber insurance before real payments;
- B2B terms validated before production Stripe activation.

## Open Core And IP

Planned open or auditable layers:

- Community CLI;
- GitHub Action;
- `agentready.json`;
- AR taxonomy;
- rule documentation;
- bad/fixed examples;
- Community rules;
- community rule format.

Advanced assets may remain protected:

- advanced rule packs;
- calibration;
- full corpus;
- advanced differential engine;
- enriched SARIF;
- internal benchmark;
- licensing;
- Pro services;
- Team/Agency functions.

No final legal license is chosen in this PR.

Publication remains blocked until:

- legacy ProofSpec references are resolved;
- open-core boundary is validated;
- owner decision is explicit;
- legal review is complete.

## Mandatory Limitation

TimeProofs AgentReady does not guarantee that an AI agent will never fail.
It identifies structural risks that may cause AI agents to misuse APIs, tools or MCP servers.