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Gather phase context before planning - codebase assumptions, locked decisions, falsifiable acceptance criteria - in one pass

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cadence
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$ npx -y skills add crenshawdev/cadence --skill cad-context --agent claude-code

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How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/cad-context

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The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Gather phase context before planning - codebase assumptions, locked decisions, falsifiable acceptance criteria - in one pass

SKILL.md

cad-context.SKILL.md
name: cad-context
description: "Gather phase context before planning - codebase assumptions, locked decisions, falsifiable acceptance criteria - in one pass"
argument-hint: "[phase number]"
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - Write
  - Edit
  - Bash
  - Grep
  - Glob
  - AskUserQuestion
  - Task

<objective> Run the single pre-plan gate for a phase: spawn the assumptions analyzer against the codebase when this phase buys that pass, close the gray areas it surfaces with a few targeted questions, and lock falsifiable acceptance criteria. Two asks, never merged into one: one spend question (is the analyzer pass worth buying here?) before it runs, and one size question (too big for one plan?) after the criteria. Writes `.planning/phases/<N>/CONTEXT.md` for /cad-plan to read. Optional - /cad-plan runs without it. </objective>

<execution_context> @${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/cadence-core/workflows/context.md </execution_context>

<process> Execute end-to-end. </process>

Ships withcadence

Appearance is cheap. Verification is the work. Cadence is for developers using Claude Code on software they will still own after the session ends. Claude can write a convincing plan, produce working code, and tell you the job is finished.

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