Alc

ALC — Agentic Layer Compiler & Runtime

**Declare how your agents should work once. Run it on any coding engine — with the guardrails built in.**

  

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ALC is a **control plane for agentic coding**. It keeps the good practices — verification, focus, isolation, review — *outside* the model, in plain deterministic code. The coding engine (Claude Code, Gemini, …) becomes a thin, swappable executor.

The point: best practices stop being discipline you have to remember, and become defaults you can't skip.

✨ Highlights

• 🛡️ Guarantees outside the model — the Assurance Loop runs your checks and repairs until they pass. Nothing is reported done until it actually is.
• 🔌 Engine-agnostic — Claude Code or Gemini. Switch with a flag; the control plane doesn't change.
• 🎯 One agent, one purpose — every task is a focused Single Mandate. No context pollution.
• 🧩 Composable — Blueprints → Flows → a Conductor that turns a goal into the right Flows.
• 🌙 Unattended — drop tasks in a queue; cron's alc tick drains them, isolated, while you're away.
• 🧠 Specialists — agents that keep a Knowledge File and get better at an area over time.
• 🔒 Isolated — --isolate runs the work in a throwaway git-worktree branch, so your working tree stays clean.

🚀 Quick Start

New to ALC? The [first-run guide](https://alc-runtime.vercel.app/docs/getting-started/first-run) walks you from install to