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AI coding agents / entity

Amp

Frontier coding agent and remote orb environment, spun out of Sourcegraph.

https://ampcode.com/

Proven Execution

0.295

Validated Direction

0.457

Uncertainty X

0.300

Uncertainty Y

0.270

Evidence mass

2.571

Region

DIRECTED

Quadrant distribution

Jev `choice` — not a hard 0.5 cut. Confidence 0.13.

  • Operational30.0%
  • Directed35.0%
  • Forming33.0%
  • Anchored2.0%

Evidence ledger

Recency half-life 180 days. Weight = 2^(-age/180).

  1. announcement · published 2026-05-06 · w=0.579

    Amp, Rebuilt (Neo CLI)

    Amp announced a rebuilt CLI (codename Neo) that is remote-controllable from ampcode.com, compaction-first, plugin-powered, and ships an official Plugin API for tools, commands, and UI.

  2. announcement · accessed 2026-09-24 · w=0.996

    Sourcegraph and Amp become independent companies

    Sourcegraph announced Amp Inc. as a separate company founded by Quinn Slack and Beyang Liu to focus on frontier coding agents, with shared board investors, while Sourcegraph focuses on code intelligence.

  3. product · accessed 2026-09-24 · w=0.996

    Amp product site

    Amp’s site describes remote ‘orbs’ where agents run unsupervised with the user’s code, plugins, and tools, wake on Linear/CI/schedule events, and can be picked up from web, terminal, or phone.

Reproducibility

resolved model: jev-1.13.0
requested model: jev-latest
request id: req_01a0d5de88667ce0a5873311219ed7bf
timestamp: 2026-09-25T00:02:01.331Z
request hash: d7ed9cada42dc2a3a0641824ccfdbcb182145266af751b02a7a510d587d1dd8b
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    "goal": "Score this entity on the Jev Quadrant rubric using only the supplied evidence.",
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      "id": "ai-coding-agents",
      "title": "AI coding agents",
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      "id": "amp",
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      "instructions": "Use only the supplied state. Do not use prior knowledge that is not represented as evidence items. If evidence is thin, return a probability near 0.5 with the understanding that uncertainty is handled separately. Has this entity shipped a generally available product used by third parties?",
      "criteria": {
        "true": "Independent public evidence shows a generally available product used by third parties.",
        "false": "The product is announced, preview-only, or evidenced only by unsourced vendor marketing with no third-party use."
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      "criteria": {
        "true": "Credible adoption evidence exists: named customers, published user or download counts, case studies, or equivalent.",
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      "instructions": "Use only the supplied state. Do not use prior knowledge that is not represented as evidence items. If evidence is thin, return a probability near 0.5 with the understanding that uncertainty is handled separately. Is there evidence of reliability, quality, security/compliance, or operational maturity?",
      "criteria": {
        "true": "Evidence of reliability, quality, security/compliance, or operational maturity (uptime, incidents handled, certifications, long-running open-source project).",
        "false": "No reliability or quality evidence is present."
      }
    },
    "exec_cadence": {
      "type": "noul",
      "instructions": "Use only the supplied state. Do not use prior knowledge that is not represented as evidence items. If evidence is thin, return a probability near 0.5 with the understanding that uncertainty is handled separately. Is there evidence of continued delivery after launch?",
      "criteria": {
        "true": "Evidence of continued delivery after launch (dated releases, changelog, subsequent features).",
        "false": "Delivery appears one-shot or stalled."
      }
    },
    "dir_strategy": {
      "type": "noul",
      "instructions": "Use only the supplied state. Do not use prior knowledge that is not represented as evidence items. If evidence is thin, return a probability near 0.5 with the understanding that uncertainty is handled separately. Is there a specific, consistent, dated public strategy or roadmap?",
      "criteria": {
        "true": "A public strategy or roadmap is specific, consistent, and dated.",
        "false": "Direction is vague, contradictory, or only implied."
      }
    },
    "dir_backed": {
      "type": "noul",
      "instructions": "Use only the supplied state. Do not use prior knowledge that is not represented as evidence items. If evidence is thin, return a probability near 0.5 with the understanding that uncertainty is handled separately. Are strategy or roadmap claims backed by shipped artifacts in the evidence pack?",
      "criteria": {
        "true": "Roadmap or strategy claims are backed by shipped artifacts in the evidence pack.",
        "false": "Direction is promised without corresponding delivery evidence."
      }
    },
    "dir_distinct": {
      "type": "noul",
      "instructions": "Use only the supplied state. Do not use prior knowledge that is not represented as evidence items. If evidence is thin, return a probability near 0.5 with the understanding that uncertainty is handled separately. Is the evidenced direction distinct from generic category copy?",
      "criteria": {
        "true": "The evidenced direction is distinct from generic category copy.",
        "false": "Positioning is interchangeable with peers."
      }
    },
    "dir_invested": {
      "type": "noul",
      "instructions": "Use only the supplied state. Do not use prior knowledge that is not represented as evidence items. If evidence is thin, return a probability near 0.5 with the understanding that uncertainty is handled separately. Is there evidence of sustained investment in this product?",
      "criteria": {
        "true": "Evidence of sustained investment (funding used for the product, research, open-source velocity, or platform expansion).",
        "false": "No evidence of continued investment."
      }
    },
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      "type": "choice",
      "instructions": "Use only the supplied state. Do not use prior knowledge that is not represented as evidence items. If evidence is thin, return a probability near 0.5 with the understanding that uncertainty is handled separately. Assign the entity to one Jev Quadrant cell. Do not use a hard 0.5 cut. Weigh the full evidence pack.",
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        "ANCHORED": "Both delivery (proven execution) and evidenced direction (validated direction) are strong.",
        "DIRECTED": "Validated direction is better evidenced than proven execution.",
        "OPERATIONAL": "Proven execution is better evidenced than validated direction.",
        "FORMING": "Both axes are thin, early, or contradicted."
      }
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