Cadora sits above the coding-agent CLIs and drives them through a workflow you declare — so the how of delivery stays yours. It is the conductor, not the agent: it doesn't implement the agent loop, and it isn't an in-IDE assistant. It's the layer that turns “an AI wrote it” into a run you can repeat, compare, cost, and prove.
Four things, one layer
Every frontier model
Claude Code, Codex, Kiro, and more through the same topology. A/B on identical work, or phase-split a run — design on one model, build on another. No lock-in.
Your own subscriptions
Subscription-funded by default — metered API is an explicit opt-in. Mix vendors and funding, with one cross-vendor cost ledger showing what each run spent.
A real method
Aligned with the AWS AI-DLC lifecycle — inception → construction → operations — a structured, repeatable workflow. Method-agnostic too: BMAD, or your own.
Proof you can ship
Deterministic gates decide “green,” not the agent. Every run is a signed, checksummed evidence pack — tamper-evident and attributable, verifiable after it leaves your machine.
Declared, gated, recorded
You declare the steps; the gate — not the agent — decides whether each one is done.
One topology, any model, on your own subscriptions — one cost ledger, one signed proof.
Verify the pack
A run's evidence is checksummed and signed. Recompute the hashes and any change shows — an unsigned pack still verifies its integrity; a signed one is attributable too.
Verified and experimental
Every backend runs the same topology, gates, integrity scan, and archive —
so results A/B-compare directly. cadora doctor prints each tier and version status.
Where this is
Cadora is a working reference implementation of the neutral-conductor idea — shipped, tested, backend-neutral. It is offered as the capstone of an exploration, not a finished commercial platform. The LLM-as-judge gate is a deliberate stub; the load-bearing parts — the gates, the integrity scan, the signed evidence, the cost ledger — are real. The vision stands on its own; the tool shows it holds.