About The Agentic Review

The Agentic Review is a technical publication that covers the products, architectures, and emerging standards of the agentic AI era. We write long-form teardowns, comparative analyses, and protocol commentary for engineers, architects, and operators who already know the space.

Mission

Most coverage of agentic AI is downstream of marketing. We try to do the opposite. Our contributors are working engineers, former platform architects, and standards-body participants. We read the source, run the systems, and write what we find. We do not publish synthetic benchmarks; comparisons in our pages are qualitative and architectural.

The publication is modeled on the older technical press — LWN.net, USENIX ;login:, the pre-acquisition Pragmatic Engineer — adapted to a category that is still inventing its own vocabulary. We expect readers to know what a tool call is. We expect ourselves to admit when a question is unsolved.

Our wager is that the agentic-systems category will be the most consequential infrastructure conversation of the next decade, and that the conversation deserves a publication that treats it like infrastructure rather than like a marketing category.

What we cover

• Architecture — Long-form teardowns of agent runtimes, scheduler internals, memory layers, and the boundaries between components.
• Standards — MCP, A2A, OpenAgents, and the working groups around the emerging interop layer.
• Reviews — Comparative reviews of orchestration frameworks, agentic platforms, and the products being built around them.
• Conversations — On-the-record interviews with the engineers, architects, and product leads building this layer of the stack.

Editorial independence

The Agentic Review is an independent editorial publication. We do not accept paid placements, sponsored articles, or vendor-supplied copy. No company holds an editorial veto over what is published in these pages. The full policy lives in our editorial guidelines, and individual disclosures — when a contributor has prior or current relationships with a vendor being covered — appear at the foot of the relevant article and in our disclosures log.

We hold ourselves to the test of whether we would publish a piece critical of any vendor we have previously written favourably about. We have, and we will. The same editorial standards we apply to LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, Phidata, Letta, and every other product in the category apply equally to every other product we cover.

Masthead

The Review is currently written by three named bylines. Each contributor has a landing page at /authors/{slug} with longer-form bio.

• Dr. Saul Wenmiller — Technical reviewer. Architecture and standards desk.
• Hadassah Stein — Staff engineer turned writer. Product teardowns and comparative reviews.
• Editorial Team — Shared byline for landscape essays and unsigned analysis. At least three contributors and one outside reviewer behind every piece.

History

The Agentic Review began as a working draft in late 2024, after a series of conversations among the founding contributors about the absence of an LWN-shaped publication for the agentic-systems category. The cornerstone essay — "What Is an Agentic Operating System, Really?" — was the first piece we agreed had to exist before the publication did, and it remains the file from which the publication takes its position.

The first issue went out in early 2024 to a small subscriber list assembled from the contributors' personal networks. The publication has grown via word-of-mouth and via republication of individual pieces on a handful of high-signal aggregators.

Funding

The Review is run lean: the contributors are paid out of a small editorial budget, the hosting bill is trivial, and there is no marketing line. We do not currently run sponsorship or advertising. If we add a sponsorship offering in the future, it will be confined to non-editorial pages and clearly demarcated. Reader-supported subscriptions are an option we may explore once the publication has the scale to make paywalled content meaningfully different from the free archive; we are not there yet.

Ethics

Our editorial ethics policy is the document at /editorial-guidelines/. It covers independence, sourcing standards, conflicts of interest, anonymous sources, pen names, fact-checking, corrections, and our use of AI tools in the newsroom. Reader-facing summaries of the policy live in our FAQ; the operational document is the editorial guidelines page.

Get involved

• Pitch a piece or get in touch via the contact page.
• Brand assets, masthead, and use-of-brand policy at /press/.
• Common questions answered at /faq/.
• Standing log of corrections at /corrections/.
• Subscribe to the dispatch in any footer or at the foot of any article.

Imprint

The Agentic Review
editors@agentic.review