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The Atlas is a navigable rendering of a five-phase research corpus on frameworks built on top of coding agents. The underlying material — 653 framework analyses, each with up to 10 markdown sections plus a structured METRICS.yaml — was generated across recursive web discovery, batch-coordinated deep-dives, and cross-cutting synthesis. The site is a rendering and navigation layer, not a content-generation project; it makes no runtime LLM calls.

How to read this site

The 348 frameworks are the primary subject — projects built on top of coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, etc.) that ship installable methodology: slash commands, skills, hooks, MCP servers, persona definitions, workflow phases. Examples: Superpowers, SpecKit, OpenSpec, BMAD-METHOD, Taskmaster.

The 305 supporting tools in /others are what frameworks run on top of, inside, or alongside: coding agents themselves, IDEs, sandboxes, skill catalogs, memory tools, linters, CLI utilities. They have their own detail pages (same URL structure) but are labeled clearly as non-frameworks.

The 21-archetype taxonomy is the site's spine. Every framework maps to one or more archetypes — from "Skills-only behavioral" (A1) to "LLM-evaluated hooks" (A21, brand new in Phase D). Archetypes let you compare across frameworks without knowing each one individually.

The 5-framework Stack at /#stack is the editorial centerpiece — superpowers + openspec + agent-orchestrator-composio + forge-lucasduys + entroly. Together, these five cover all 25 rubric dimensions. Phase D extends to a 7-framework defensible set with Trellis and gh-aw-githubnext.

Data quality caveats

  • 23% Tier-C stubs: approximately 150 entries are minimal 2-file analyses from low-signal repositories. Their detail pages render compactly rather than breaking.
  • Free-text relationship fields: inspired_by, competitors_named_in_readme, and differs_from_seeds are strings — not verified slug references. Cross-links between framework detail pages are inferred, not sourced.
  • Schema drift: some METRICS.yaml files use agents: instead of subagents:, or ship lists where the schema expects counts. The ingest pipeline is tolerant — it falls back gracefully on 652 of 654 files.
  • Stars as SEO signal: GitHub stars in this corpus reflect SEO reach and social sharing, not engineering rigor. The /atlas scatter makes this disconnect visible.

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