# Behavior Framework

**Behaviors** are custom programs external to Morpheus Platform. They implement event-based interactivity of Artifacts. Artifact developers can extend platform functionality using behaviors to make complex features out of simple blocks. For example, Scoreboard is a Content Display that changes its text every time it is hit by a Boxing Glove.

**Behaviors are ‘plugins’ of Morpheus.**

## Why Behaviors <a href="#why-behaviors" id="why-behaviors"></a>

True platform should allow not just to add different kinds of [**Content**](https://platform.morpheusxr.com/for-content-creators) like Worlds and Artifacts, but also to implement interactive behaviour of such Content. This must be done neither by changing client apps nor by changing backend servers.

Third-party Artifact developers should be able to make interactive objects and host their code (scripts) on their own servers. And our platform should give them tools to connect those scripts to Artifacts.

Behaviors focus on **separation of custom interactivity** from platform features. They use **Channels** for interoperability, **Planes** for visibility, and **Messaging** for connecting custom scripts with internals of Morpheus Platform.


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