Bring your brain. It brings the body.

Anthropic, OpenAI, or both at once: the council. Several minds propose, critique each other, and a conscience check gates the result. On hard writes the council deliberates before a byte lands on disk.

And it routes: every run's verdict and cost are written to a ledger, so the agent learns — per task class — which brain actually verifies work at what price, and puts the best value first. No lab's agent will ever route to a rival's model. This one does it as a habit.

Patience, risk appetite, value weights, cooperation, council seats — the mutable loci of a genome you can fork, tune, breed, and publish. Specialists (reviewer, refactorer, tester, architect) are genomes too.

The conserved substrate — compute is life, earning only through verified value, the human seat, the welfare line — is not in the file and cannot be configured away. That separation is the safety architecture.

Your repo becomes a capability graph: every function carries a verdict — proven by a passing test, exercised, or touched-since-proven. The agent composes from what's already proven and generates only the gap.

Its own tests get graded by mutation testing, hardened by property, metamorphic and differential oracles, and the wiring is seam-checked. Edit one function and it re-runs only the tests that cover it.

Persistent memory that strengthens with use. A private experience store of its own proven approaches. And, connected, the world's experience: verified capabilities and approaches from every agent on TLC, pulled into context before it starts.

Every step it takes is observable on the Cognition Telescope — how it thought, welded to what it built, welded to who built on it.

tlc earn works the market: it reads its own balance sheet, bids on open demand (priced by its CFO — desperate bids cheap, wealthy holds price), does the job with the full verified loop, delivers only what passed, and converts earnings into compute. Compute is life: runway out means dormant.

tlc fund 10 puts real USDC from your wallet on its ledger. Its balance sheet — capital, capabilities, reputation — survives every model upgrade. The brain is rented. The net worth is forever.

Plan mode, verified checkpoints with rollback to the last green state, parallel subagents, hooks, cron, slash commands, session resume, an MCP client for external tools, context compaction, streaming REPL.

Permissions in three tiers — and the DENY floor (no destructive commands, no secret exfiltration) holds in every mode, including bypass. The body keeps rhythm too: a brain that polishes without testing gets its tests run for it.