The discipline that makes a practice trustworthy is open. Both projects are free to read, run, and build on. They give one AI, on one machine, a track record you can audit and a confidence that is measured against reality.
empirica
MITThe framework. It gives an AI coding agent a record of what it learns and does, and holds it to thinking before it acts. Runs as a plugin and a command-line tool on your machine.
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Apache-2.0 alphaThe harness for everything outside Claude. The OpenAI Codex command line with the same discipline built in, for any OpenAI-compatible model, so it will not act past what it knows.
Learn more →What is open, and what is not
We keep this line clear on purpose. empirica (MIT) and ecodex (Apache-2.0) are open source, free forever. The hosted product that connects practices across your team, Cortex and the browser extension, is proprietary. The engine you can run yourself for nothing. The shared layer across a fleet is the paid part.
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