Disclaimer & risks

Atelier is early-access software distributed under the terms in the LICENSE included with the source. It is provided “as is”, with no warranty of any kind — express, implied, or statutory — including but not limited to fitness for a particular purpose, security, or merchantability. The author assumes no liability for damages arising from its use.

What’s your responsibility, not ours

LLM and AI service costs

Atelier makes paid API calls to LLM providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, others) using credentials you configure. Costs can be substantial. Runaway agentic loops, orphaned applications still being monitored, or misconfigured profiles can rack up unexpected charges.

Monitor your provider dashboards. Anthropic, OpenAI, and others all have spend graphs and budget alerts.
Set spend alerts at the provider level. Atelier doesn’t enforce a budget cap.
Pause apps you’re not using. A paused app does not invoke the build or operations LLMs.
Review the per-role model assignments in Settings → AI. Pinning a smaller model for the Pre-build Review and Nova roles can reduce passive spend significantly.

Cluster, hosting, and infrastructure costs

Any compute, storage, bandwidth, or third-party services you run Atelier on — local k3s, cloud VMs, Tailscale subscriptions, container registries, etc. — are billed to you directly.

Generated code and deployed apps

Atelier generates application source code, Dockerfiles, and Kubernetes manifests using LLMs. Output may contain bugs, security vulnerabilities, insecure defaults, or unintended behaviour. Review generated code before exposing apps publicly. Don’t assume an app that built and deployed cleanly is production-ready.

The pre-build review and post-build CVE scanning catch a lot, but they don’t catch everything. Treat them as belt-and-braces, not a guarantee.

Data you put into the platform

Including app descriptions, build logs, secrets, uploaded files, and the SQLite database under /data. Back up anything you can’t afford to lose. Treat the cluster as you would any other dev/staging environment — not a system of record.

What Atelier is not

Not a managed service. There is no SLA, no on-call rotation, and no guarantee of compatibility between releases.
Not a security boundary. Atelier runs your generated apps on your own k3s cluster. Network exposure, firewall rules, and authentication for those apps are your call.
Not regulated-industry-ready. If you’re considering using Atelier for anything regulated, customer-facing, or revenue-bearing, consult your own legal and security advisors first.

Contact

Liability or licensing questions: tryatelierai@gmail.com.

Bug reports and operational questions: Discord or GitHub.

The formal terms — copyright, restrictions, no-warranty clause — are in the LICENSE. This page is a plain-language summary, not a substitute for the LICENSE itself.