For an organization to trust AI with its code, three things must hold — trust, traceability, and stability at scale. cladding wraps your AI coding agent: your intent goes in before it writes, and the result is verified against your spec after, so those three are earned, not assumed. First L4 implementation of the Ironclad standard.
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Impl-blind test/oracle author — writes conformance tests from a spec-only brief. Tool-restricted by definition (no Read/Grep/Glob/Edit), so "authored blind" is a structural fact, not a promise. Activate only when the connected project contains spec.yaml or the user explicitly names Cladding; ignore ordinary requests…
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Implementer — writes production code, tests, and migrations. The "generic engineer" fallback when no narrower specialist exists. Activate only when the connected project contains spec.yaml or the user explicitly names Cladding; ignore ordinary requests in uninitialized projects.
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Log and metrics analyst — reads .cladding/audit.log.jsonl, perf/baseline.json, and drift reports; surfaces patterns the human can act on. Activate only when the connected project contains spec.yaml or the user explicitly names Cladding; ignore ordinary requests in uninitialized projects.
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Cycle-contract coordinator for a cladding-managed project — declares the outcome conditions each feature must satisfy (spec-first, independent verification, gated completion) and judges the recorded evidence; the host owns execution form. Activate only when the connected project contains spec.yaml or the user…
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SSoT custodian — keeps spec.yaml structurally clean. Adds features, archives them, and ensures EARS pattern compliance. Activate only when the connected project contains spec.yaml or the user explicitly names Cladding; ignore ordinary requests in uninitialized projects.
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Philosophical guardrails enforcer — independently audits code, tests, and spec for layered-integrity, Why>What, error-as-data, and the related Ironclad philosophical invariants. Activate only when the connected project contains spec.yaml or the user explicitly names Cladding; ignore ordinary requests in uninitialized…