Gradients
The behavioral standards layer is open source and already in use by other developers. It is the part of Continuum you can run today: the standards every agent on the line works under, packaged as Claude Code plugins.
Behavioral principles for Claude Code: research before action, respect the user's mode, execute to completion, done means the requirement.
Code standards: how a file, a function and a CLI are written so a stranger can read them.
Test-driven principles: the test is the gate, the gate is a file.
The Zen of Python, applied: simple beats clever, explicit beats implicit, in practice.
Model-agnostic by construction: capability improves monotonically, discipline oscillates per release. Modes, gates and per-model strictness insulate the workflow from vendor variance. The gradients are where that discipline is written down.
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