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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Use only when the user explicitly names Cladding and asks to initialize, adopt, or refresh it; never use for an ordinary project creation or implementation request. Scaffold from an idea, planning document, or existing project through the MCP prepare/apply flow.
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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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Render release notes / a changelog from the cladding spec. Use when the user asks for release notes, a changelog, 릴리즈 노트, 변경 이력, or "what changed (since )" — run clad changelog --json for the deterministic shipped-changes manifest, then write the human-facing notes FROM it, sourcing every claim from a feature title or…
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Run every Iron Law stage and the drift detector suite. Use when the user wants the full project health snapshot, a CI gate, or to verify nothing regressed before committing. Add --strict to promote warn-severity drift findings to errors. Activate only when the connected project contains spec.yaml or the user…
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Record a feature checkpoint event pinning the current git HEAD plus a spec digest, so a later rollback can restore the exact pre-change state. Use before a non-trivial feature implementation, before a refactor that touches many files, or whenever the user wants a known-good safety net the autonomous drive loop can…
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Advance Cladding onboarding after the user answers a pending product question. Use the MCP prepare/apply flow, preserve the answer verbatim, and never invent answers. 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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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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Diagnose Cladding runtime health — Claude Code hook liveness and version, CI package pinning, lifecycle governance, and sentinel-miss frequency by phase × cause × fallback. Use when hooks may be silent, CI may float across Cladding releases, scan or run results look thinner than expected, or before tuning the host…
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Use only when the user explicitly names Cladding and asks to initialize, adopt, or refresh it; never use for an ordinary project creation or implementation request. Scaffold from an idea, planning document, or existing project through the MCP prepare/apply flow.
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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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Author an IMPL-BLIND spec-conformance oracle for an acceptance criterion the policy worklist (clad oracle --required) demands — an empty worklist means don't author unless the user explicitly asks. YOU spawn a blind sub-agent from a spec-only brief, then record it. Activate only when the connected project contains…
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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…
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Record a rollback event and print the maintainer-runnable git command for the most recent checkpoint of a feature. Use when an implementation attempt failed, an autonomous drive loop hit RETRYTHRESHOLD, or the user wants to abandon the current attempt and restore the pre-checkpoint state. Activate only when the…
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Classify a natural-language prompt to one of cladding's verbs. Use when the user describes work in their own words and you want to see which built-in verb cladding's intent classifier would pick — primarily a debugging tool for the orchestrator persona and for verifying the router's coverage after adding new verbs.…
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Run cladding's autonomous loop — iterate ready features, dispatch the developer + reviewer personas through the active host adapter, run L1 gates, halt on HUMANREQUIRED or transport failure. Use only when the user explicitly asks for autonomous progress; the loop will modify files. Activate only when the connected…
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Boot cladding as an MCP server over stdio. Use only when the user wants to expose cladding's tools, resources, and persona prompts to a separate MCP client. Most users don't run this directly — the plugin's .mcp.json launches it automatically. Activate only when the connected project contains spec.yaml or the user…
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Render the feature × stage integrity matrix — every feature vs every Iron Law stage with pass/skip/fail markers. Use when the user wants a project-wide status board, a release-readiness view, or to spot which features are still behind which stage. Activate only when the connected project contains spec.yaml or the user…
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Validate the active spec.yaml against the Ironclad schema and refresh the inventory. Rarely needed manually — cladcreatefeature already auto-syncs the inventory and clad check / clad done self-validate the spec, so do NOT run it as a reflexive pre-flight before those. Use it only after you have directly hand-edited a…