
Brings a deterministic pipeline state machine to Claude, exposing nine MCP tools for agent orchestration in VS Code with GitHub Copilot. You get pipeline_init, pipeline_reset, set_pipeline_mode for switching between supervised, assisted, and autopilot routing modes, plus satisfy_gate for approving stage transitions, skip_stage, and get_pipeline_status. The run_command tool executes shell commands directly from chat. Built around a fixed nine stage workflow (intent, PRD, architect, plan, implement, tester, review, closed) with 25 specialized agents. Useful if you're running complex AI driven development workflows and need predictable state transitions instead of LLM based routing. The Python state machine owns all handoffs, gates block progression until explicitly satisfied, and every transition is auditable.
caddis is a Claude Code harness — a plugin (plus a shared pool of skills, subagents,
slash-commands, and hooks) that makes a single Claude Code session dramatically more capable and much
harder to derail. It's agent-agnostic: the same pool is exported to other AI CLIs (Codex,
Antigravity, Copilot), and CLAUDE.md↔AGENTS.md are mirrors so every agent reads the same
conventions.
| You need | Why |
|---|---|
| Claude Code, installed and signed in | caddis is a plugin for it |
Python 3.11+ on PATH | the hooks and the cross-review tool are Python |
| Git | several commands read repository state |
| (optional) an API key for DeepSeek or GLM | only for cross-vendor review and the OSS lanes |
Honest about the platform: caddis is developed and used daily on Windows with PowerShell.
The hooks are pure Python and cross-platform, and the skills, commands and agents are plain markdown
that work anywhere — but some launchers ship as both .ps1 and .sh, the deployment skill is
Windows-specific, and the publishing machinery (sync.ps1) is PowerShell-only. Nothing here is
hostile to macOS or Linux; it is simply less travelled, so expect rough edges and please report them.
claude plugin marketplace add saajunaid/caddis-plugin
claude plugin install caddis@caddis
Then, in a Claude Code session, confirm it actually loaded:
/caddis:version
If that prints a version, you are installed. From there, the shortest path to seeing what caddis is for:
| Try this | What it does |
|---|---|
/caddis:feature-plan add CSV export | writes a phased, TDD-structured plan to .caddis/plans/ — the durable spine the rest of the harness reads |
/caddis:implement <plan> | executes that plan phase by phase, committing each, and stops only at a real boundary |
/caddis:cross-review | has a different vendor's model review your diff, because a same-vendor reviewer shares your blind spots |
/caddis:handoff | writes the resume doc, so the next session starts with zero re-discovery |
Everything else is optional. If you only ever use feature-plan → implement → cross-review, you
have most of the value.
This repository is the published marketplace mirror: it hosts the caddis and caddis-extras
Claude Code plugins, the portable per-harness bundles under bundles/, and the shared pool. It is
generated and pushed by the caddis authoring repo's exporter — issues are welcome here, but code
changes land upstream and are synced in.
# 1. Register this repo as a plugin marketplace (once)
claude plugin marketplace add saajunaid/caddis-plugin
# 2. Install the core plugin (always-on, lean context)
claude plugin install caddis@caddis
# 3. (optional) Add the long-tail skill library — cloud/data/media/etc. Disabled by default,
# so it costs zero always-on context until you enable it.
claude plugin install caddis-extras@caddis
Then, in any repo:
/caddis:setup-project-ai # deploy the harness into the project
A normal working loop looks like:
/feature-plan # (or /prd first) → writes .caddis/plans/<slug>.md, the durable spine
/implement # executes the plan phase-by-phase, TDD, commit per phase
/ship # express lane: commit → push → CI (hotfixes); feature work: /ship-pr then /ship-merge
/handoff # ALWAYS end a session with this — writes the resume doc
The one habit that matters most: end every session with /handoff. It writes
.caddis/relay.md, which is re-injected automatically at the next session start — you resume with
zero re-discovery instead of a cold, forgetful session.
See USERGUIDE.md for the full command/skill/hook reference and the mental models.
/feature-plan, /prd, /implement, /tdd, /ship · /ship-pr ·
/ship-merge, /handoff, /kb, /digress · /resume, /cross-review, /usage-review,
/mermaid-db · /excalidraw-db, /setup-project-ai, /migrate-dir.anchor (evidence-first verification),
code-reviewer, preflight (plan-vs-codebase validation), tester, debug, codebase-audit,
security-analyst, data-engineer, sql-expert, knowledge-transfer.relay.md), automatic Dream Memory
(memory.jsonl), a per-repo knowledge base (.caddis/kb/ + DOC-MAP.md), and cross-repo memory.caddis; the long tail (cloud, data, media,
productivity) lives in caddis-extras, off by default.The knowledge layer (skills + AGENTS.md conventions) works in any harness. Per-harness bundles are
published under bundles/ and installed with caddis-init:
# from a checkout of this repo (the installer ships in plugin/scripts/)
python plugin/scripts/claudster_init.py --target codex --dest /path/to/project
python plugin/scripts/claudster_init.py --target antigravity --dest /path/to/project
Safe by design: a sha256 manifest tracks what the installer wrote; re-runs update only unmodified files, and anything you edited locally is reported as a conflict, never overwritten.
| Path | What it is |
|---|---|
.claude-plugin/marketplace.json | The marketplace manifest (caddis + caddis-extras) |
plugin/ | The core caddis Claude Code plugin (agents, commands, hooks, core skills) |
plugin-extras/ | The caddis-extras skill library (disabled by default) |
bundles/ | Portable per-harness exports (codex, antigravity) for caddis-init |
.github/ | The shared pool: skills, agents, prompts, instructions, tools |
sync.ps1, export_runtime_resources.py, validate_pool.py | The build/sync machinery |
caddis was previously published as claudster (and, before that, this repo hosted the junai
Copilot pipeline — see the pre-1.2 entries in CHANGELOG.md). Repos set up under
the old name have a .claudster/ artifact dir; everything reads both .caddis/ and .claudster/
and writes where the repo already lives, so nothing breaks. Run /caddis:migrate-dir when you
want a repo converted. The ~/.claudster/ user scope (keys, install records) is permanent.
MIT. The published plugin bundles (caddis / caddis-extras) carry the same license
in their manifests.
PIPELINE_STATE_PATHPath to pipeline-state.json. Defaults to .github/pipeline-state.json relative to the workspace root (detected by searching upward from the current directory for a .github folder).
JUNAI_WORKSPACE_ROOTExplicit workspace root path override. Use if automatic detection (searching upward for .github) does not find the correct root.