The record as public JSON

• The Scorecard

  https://thecontinuitylayer.com/open-data/scorecard.json

  The four test sets (memory, your data, leaving, price), every test's pass, partial and fail rule, and the nine assistants ranked, each with its overall score, its exit grade and every graded cell: grade, what the provider's page says, the source URL and the day it was checked.

  Mirrors /scoreboard. JSON, UTF-8, re-rendered hourly. Also as CSV: scorecard.csv.

  Data last changed 3 November 2026

• The shelves

  https://thecontinuitylayer.com/open-data/shelves.json

  The four graded shelves, coding agents, memory systems, open models and inference APIs: each shelf's tests and its entries ranked, with maker, docs and pricing URLs, license, score, and every cell with its grade, the maker's line, the source URL and the day checked.

  Mirrors /coding-agents. JSON, UTF-8, re-rendered hourly. Also as CSV: shelves.csv.

  Data last changed 5 November 2026

• The tool directory

  https://thecontinuitylayer.com/open-data/tools.json

  The three tool categories (local hardware, GPU hosting, routers) and every entry: maker, price band with the day it was read, the vendor's own source page, what it is for, the verdict, specs, and the plain outbound link.

  Mirrors /tools. JSON, UTF-8, re-rendered hourly. Also as CSV: tools.csv.

  Data last changed 6 November 2026

• Today

  https://thecontinuitylayer.com/open-data/today.json

  The dated Today log from Where we are, newest first, each item with its text and the primary source, and the Did it change? log of model, price and policy changes, each dated, with severity, whether it was announced, and the published source.

  Mirrors /where-we-are. JSON, UTF-8, re-rendered hourly. Also as CSV: today.csv.

  Data last changed 1 December 2026

Every file is published under CC BY 4.0. Use it, copy it, build on it, for any purpose, as long as you attribute The Continuity Layer with a link. The grades are read from the providers' own pages; every cell carries the page it was read from and the day, so you can check any grade yourself.

Cite the specific page and section (e.g., “The Continuity Layer, Open data, scorecard.json”), not the site as a general source. Attribute to The Continuity Layer.

@misc{continuitylayer_scorecard_2026,
  author = {The Continuity Layer},
  title = {The Scorecard},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://thecontinuitylayer.com/open-data/scorecard.json}},
  note = {Data set, scorecard.json, last changed 2026-11-03. CC BY 4.0.}
}

@misc{continuitylayer_shelves_2026,
  author = {The Continuity Layer},
  title = {The shelves},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://thecontinuitylayer.com/open-data/shelves.json}},
  note = {Data set, shelves.json, last changed 2026-11-05. CC BY 4.0.}
}

@misc{continuitylayer_tools_2026,
  author = {The Continuity Layer},
  title = {The tool directory},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://thecontinuitylayer.com/open-data/tools.json}},
  note = {Data set, tools.json, last changed 2026-11-06. CC BY 4.0.}
}

@misc{continuitylayer_today_2026,
  author = {The Continuity Layer},
  title = {Today},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://thecontinuitylayer.com/open-data/today.json}},
  note = {Data set, today.json, last changed 2026-12-01. CC BY 4.0.}
}

Each file names its own URL in file, the license in license, the attribution line in attribution and the time it was generated in generated. Quote the checked date on a cell, not the file's generated time, when you cite a grade.