v0.9.0 — Conversational onboarding, one project at a time

Onboarding is now conversational — bring Cladding into a project just by talking to your AI, with no setup command in the chat. And it's safer: a read-only preview and an exact approval phrase mean nothing is written to your project until you approve.

One thing to know: setup is now per project. Run clad setup once in each project where you want Cladding; projects you don't set up stay untouched. Your existing CLAUDE.md is never changed — Cladding uses AGENTS.md.

Highlights

• Onboard from a sentence, a doc, or existing code — say what you're building; Cladding drafts the spec and asks up to three questions only when a real decision is open.
• See it before it's written — a preview plus the exact approval phrase; cancel, restart, or a bad draft leaves your project exactly as it was.
• Nothing leaks between projects — setup wires only the AI hosts you actually have installed, and only for that project.

Verified

Installed the real 0.9.0 package in a clean sandbox and ran onboarding through all five AI CLIs — every host that ran refused to skip the approval step, even with permissions off. typecheck · lint · 2,561 tests all pass.

Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md → [0.9.0].