v0.8.3 — Agent loops that stop honestly, a guard against unverified "done", and a faster check

This release helps you build AI agent loops that stop when the work is genuinely finished, closes a hole where a feature could look done without its tests ever running, makes the pre-push check faster, and ships native Japanese and Chinese documentation.

If you build your own agent loop, cladding now gives that loop an honest "are we actually done?" answer and a clear "here's what's still broken" list. These loop features are for loop engineering — they harden when the loop may stop and what it fixes next, not the AI's code quality (cladding's own A/B testing is the receipt: this kind of governance is separate from code correctness).

Heads-up — two things to know when you upgrade:

• The strict check now flags any feature marked done whose declared tests don't actually run. A feature that looked green but was never truly verified will surface after upgrade.
• Setting up a project now also writes an AGENTS.md from your spec, so AGENTS.md-aware AI tools pick up your project's context on their own. Your existing files aren't touched.

Added

• Tell your agent loop when it's genuinely finished — a read-only check answers "is this actually done?" using the very same gate as a real completion; it only reports, it never changes anything.
• The loop gives up gracefully instead of spinning — when repeated attempts stop making progress, it escalates rather than looping forever.
• The loop remembers what already failed to build — past build failures are fed back in, so the AI stops resubmitting the same broken fix.
• Errors come back as exact file-and-line pointers, so the loop fixes them in one pass instead of re-running just to find where the problem was.
• New projects get an AGENTS.md generated from their spec (closes #199), so any AGENTS.md-aware AI tool inherits the project's intent; cladding's own copy is protected from being overwritten.
• More toolchains detected — Swift, Flutter, Dart, plus TypeScript-with-Jest and mixed-file-extension projects.
• Native Japanese and Chinese READMEs — written natively, not machine-translated, with translated diagrams. The docs switch between English · 한국어 · 日本語 · 中文.

Changed

• The pre-push check runs your tests once, not twice (closes #215) — about 28% faster, with the "did the tests really run?" guard fully intact.
• Tidier evidence bookkeeping — some spec entries record their supporting material more accurately, and the self-check emits a standard test report.
• The tool self-checks its own advertised detector count, so the docs can't quietly drift from the code.

Fixed

• clad check no longer crashes when its output is piped into something that stops reading early — like head (closes #221).

Security

• Closed a "looks green but was never verified" hole — a feature marked done whose tests don't actually run is now caught. cladding treats a check that can be tricked into a false pass as a trust issue, and this closes one way it could be tricked.