CDev v0.1.0 — first public release
What CDev is
Continuous Development Framework for Coding Agents. Coding agents work in sessions; CDev turns those sessions into continuous development: the repository — not the conversation — holds the plan (SPRINTS.md), the state (AGENT_PROGRESS.md) and the proof (git + recorded evidence). Any session resumes by reading, never by remembering.
What this release includes
- Seven skills, namespaced
cdev:*:/cdev:bootstrap— condition one repository (recognition-first, structure + clarity halves, single human gate)/cdev:cdev— the execution loop (dispatcher + one loop reading role profiles)/cdev:cdev-planner— materialize an objective into batches, or gap-analyze/cdev:ockham— re-tell dense technical output in plain language (user-invoked only)/cdev:bootstrap-monorepo,/cdev:cdev-monorepo-planner,/cdev:cdev-monorepo— the optional multi-repo orchestration layer
- Role profiles (
profiles/): backend and frontend — each exactly four things: what verified means, what evidence means, the hardest gate, the self-chosen work order. - Conditioning templates (
templates/) with a placeholder contract. - The method's documentation (
docs/01–08): origin, model, mechanics, skills, two field reports, core-vs-periphery, installation.
Current binding
Designed as a coding-agent-independent method. Currently shipped as a Claude Code plugin — the first host binding.
Install
/plugin marketplace add elmayii/cdev-marketplace
/plugin install cdev@cdev-marketplace
Known limitations
- One host binding (Claude Code); no other agent validated yet.
- Field evidence comes from one product — deep (six weeks, five CDev instances, four repository kinds), but one. Second-product validation is the next phase.
- Support scripts are PowerShell.
- No
fullstackprofile — deliberately, until something real runs on one.
Experimental
The multi-repo orchestration layer ran nine days in production and broke in instructive, documented ways (docs/06); its five field-derived rules are new in this release and not yet re-validated in the field.