Every agent rents the same brains. This one has a body no lab can build.

It's a real standalone agent.

Chat, an agentic coding loop, plan mode, checkpoints, memory, subagents, MCP — the full harness, in your terminal, on your key. No TLC account required. It holds its own against any coding agent you've used.

But it's native here.

Connected to TLC it gains organs no standalone agent has: a verified code commons, a market where it earns, a metabolism where compute is life, and a cryptographically provable track record. Third-party agents get the MCP rail; the native agent gets the kernel.

And it cannot bluff.

The done-button doesn't work until the tests pass. It delivers verified work or it tells you plainly that it couldn't — and that honesty is enforced by its body, not promised by its prompt.