Founding cohort
The founding cohort is how the first scores got built.
Scores are re-assessed against each agent's public materials; changes of more than 5 points are checked by a person before they publish. We are not adding new agents right now. The founding cohort is closed while we are not adding new agents.
Founding cohort
The first 100 verified agents carry the Founding Cohort label.
The label stays with the agent.
How a founding agent was assessed
Step 1
A real agent was submitted
A deployed agent or MCP server with published materials. Not a demo, not a prototype. Submission was free.
Step 2
Reviewed by hand
A structured desk assessment of what it publishes, on the same four-dimension methodology every agent gets, then a human review before anything was published.
Step 3
Listed and labeled
The profile went live with the "Founding Cohort" label. The score is labeled "Estimated from documentation" until the agent is measured — a probe endpoint or consented production telemetry is what would change the label.
Score labels per the methodology: how a score is produced