44 agent-built software projects — written mostly by AI coding agents, from Jeffrey Emanuel’s franken suite — assessed under one claim-governance method (Sep 2026). Placed by NODUS verdict (Monitor / Explore / Pilot / Invest — the program’s four assessment rings). Headline finding: the methodology is the asset — 42 of 44 can’t show public CI (continuous integration) green at the assessed commit. The 3 Pilot verdicts mark bounded, real workload fits; the 34 explorations form the belt. Node size and height are technology-readiness (TRL): higher readiness, bigger world. Click any node for the packet’s bottom line and its full brief.
44 repos assessed, pinned Sep 2026 (the assessed commit)42 of 44 can’t show CI (continuous integration) green at the pin (the single assessed commit)2 can — they glow green38 of 44 carry the AI-lab license riderbus factor 1 (one maintainer, no backup) · independent validation: zero
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How to read it
Invest — 0: independent validation plus governance — empty in this program
Pilot — 3: release artifact + a bounded, real workload fit. Not a recommendation to ship.
Explore — 34: real code, unproven claims
Monitor — 7: watch, don’t land
green glow = CI green at the pin — CI (continuous integration) builds passing on the assessed commit. The pin is the single commit the assessor fixed for the whole evaluation. frankenscipy and franken_threed, the only 2
The rider = MIT + OpenAI/Anthropic rider, barring the AI labs from training, use, or benchmarking. 38 of 44 carry it — the domed ones when you toggle the ceiling.
white cage = plain MIT — the suite’s only plain-MIT repo (1 of 6 without the rider)
red cage = no license file — all rights reserved, the most restricted state (5)
bus factor = how many people can leave before the project stalls. It is 1 across the suite: one maintainer, checked by no one.
Bigger node = higher TRL (2–8); height above the plane climbs with TRL too. A thin vertical band marks a TRL range — plotted as a span, never a midpoint. frankentui_website is a support asset, so it sits flat on the plane: N/A as technology. The 38 rider-bound repos show a dome with “Show the rider ceiling” — every dome the same size, by design.
No license file is not freer than plain MIT. It means no operative grant at all — more restricted than the rider, which still grants rights to everyone outside the AI labs.
Map exceptions, not the rule: frankentui_website is ~36k lines of TypeScript, the two beads repos are static dashboard exports, and franken_agent_detection is not a rewrite of an incumbent.
The rider ceiling. Dome = MIT + OpenAI/Anthropic rider. The rider withholds rights only from the AI labs and their affiliates.
A judgment map, not a measurement, assessed by an independent research program (Sep 2026) from Jeffrey Emanuel’s franken suite. Every verdict is an analyst’s
inference from a pinned-commit packet (Sep 2026), confidence: medium. Size is
readiness, not quality — a big Monitor node is still a website.
drag to orbit · scroll to zoom · click a node for the bottom line · double-click opens its brief
Verdict matrix
44 repos, sorted as you like
Every verdict as a row. Click a column header to sort; click again to reverse. Names link to the full brief.
Data note: window.FRANKEN_DATA and its field schema
This page and the map above both read from one global, window.FRANKEN_DATA
(loaded from assets/data.js). Aggregate counts on the map and table
are computed from these records at render time.
FRANKEN_DATA.repos is an array of 44 records, one per repo:
name
Repo name. Full brief at briefs/<name>.html.
trl
TRL as a display string ("4–5"); support assets read "N/A".
trlLow / trlHigh
Numeric TRL bounds. Ranges are plotted and sorted as spans, never midpoints.
techNA
true when TRL is N/A as technology (a support asset, not a technology).
nodus
NODUS ring: Invest, Pilot, Explore, or Monitor.
license
License verdict in plain words.
licenseKey
rider (MIT + AI-lab rider), mit (plain MIT), none (no license file).
ci
CI (continuous integration) state at the assessed commit, in plain words.
ciKey
C1: CI green at the pin. C2: CI red at the pin. C3: CI exists, no pin verdict. C4: no test CI (deploy-only at most). C5: CI disabled or deleted. C6: tests only on maintainer-private machines.
release
Release-artifact status at the pin.
blurb
The one-paragraph verdict.
FRANKEN_DATA.licenseClasses labels and explains the three license states.
FRANKEN_DATA.ringDefinitions glosses the four rings.
FRANKEN_DATA.visualEncoding pins rendering parameters such as the rider-dome radius.