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AI coding agents / entity

Claude Code

Anthropic’s agentic coding tool for terminal, IDE, and GitHub.

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/overview

Proven Execution

0.583

Validated Direction

0.432

Uncertainty X

0.340

Uncertainty Y

0.368

Evidence mass

1.147

Region

OPERATIONAL

Quadrant distribution

Jev `choice` — not a hard 0.5 cut. Confidence 0.63.

  • Directed7.0%
  • Anchored19.0%
  • Forming2.0%
  • Operational72.0%

Evidence ledger

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

  1. announcement · published 2025-05-22 · w=0.151

    Introducing Claude 4 — Claude Code generally available

    Anthropic announced Claude Code as generally available with GitHub Actions background tasks, VS Code and JetBrains integrations, an SDK, and a beta GitHub app for tagging Claude on pull requests.

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

    anthropics/claude-code

    The public Claude Code repository describes a terminal-native agentic coding tool with IDE and GitHub tagging, documents official installers (curl, Homebrew, WinGet), and listed 145,315 GitHub stars at access time.

Reproducibility

resolved model: jev-1.13.0
requested model: jev-latest
request id: req_01a0d5de7dba773b8dd4c6a13c22e8bf
timestamp: 2026-09-25T00:02:01.331Z
request hash: aa2ae10c193f636f8071cf697f4babbd46e21a66e61d12aba21604aa88f37c63
Download request JSON
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  "model": "jev-latest",
  "state": {
    "goal": "Score this entity on the Jev Quadrant rubric using only the supplied evidence.",
    "framework": "jev-quadrant-v1",
    "topic": {
      "id": "ai-coding-agents",
      "title": "AI coding agents",
      "x_axis": "Proven Execution",
      "y_axis": "Validated Direction"
    },
    "entity": {
      "id": "claude-code",
      "name": "Claude Code",
      "website": "https://code.claude.com/docs/en/overview",
      "description": "Anthropic’s agentic coding tool for terminal, IDE, and GitHub."
    },
    "evidence": [
      {
        "id": "claude-4-ga",
        "kind": "announcement",
        "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4",
        "date": "2025-05-22",
        "date_kind": "published",
        "recency_weight": 0.151,
        "summary": "Anthropic announced Claude Code as generally available with GitHub Actions background tasks, VS Code and JetBrains integrations, an SDK, and a beta GitHub app for tagging Claude on pull requests.",
        "title": "Introducing Claude 4 — Claude Code generally available"
      },
      {
        "id": "claude-code-repo",
        "kind": "open_source",
        "url": "https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code",
        "date": "2026-09-24",
        "date_kind": "accessed",
        "recency_weight": 0.9962,
        "summary": "The public Claude Code repository describes a terminal-native agentic coding tool with IDE and GitHub tagging, documents official installers (curl, Homebrew, WinGet), and listed 145,315 GitHub stars at access time.",
        "title": "anthropics/claude-code"
      }
    ],
    "claims": [],
    "independent_checks": [],
    "recency": {
      "half_life_days": 180,
      "as_of": "2026-09-25",
      "mass": 1.1471
    }
  },
  "questions": {
    "exec_shipped": {
      "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. 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."
      }
    },
    "exec_adoption": {
      "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 credible adoption evidence?",
      "criteria": {
        "true": "Credible adoption evidence exists: named customers, published user or download counts, case studies, or equivalent.",
        "false": "Adoption claims are absent, purely anecdotal, or unsourced."
      }
    },
    "exec_reliability": {
      "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 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."
      }
    },
    "quadrant": {
      "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.",
      "criteria": {
        "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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