/cad-adopt: initialize from an existing repo #106

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opened 2026-08-12 16:36:58 +00:00 by john · 0 comments

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2026-08-12 16:36:58 +00:00

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/cad-adopt reverse-engineers PROJECT.md, REQUIREMENTS.md and a remaining-work ROADMAP.md from the code and git history, then asks the deep questions ONLY where the code cannot answer - the same questioning discipline as new-project, scoped to the holes. Ships .planning/ in the same shape every other command already reads, so the rest of the spine needs zero changes.

Same family as --brief: Cadence meeting work that started outside Cadence.

cad-new-project assumes a blank page. Nearly everyone who tries Cadence arrives with a half-built codebase and a messy history, and today the tool has nothing for them - the biggest adoption gap in the surface. /cad-adopt reverse-engineers PROJECT.md, REQUIREMENTS.md and a remaining-work ROADMAP.md from the code and git history, then asks the deep questions ONLY where the code cannot answer - the same questioning discipline as new-project, scoped to the holes. Ships .planning/ in the same shape every other command already reads, so the rest of the spine needs zero changes. Same family as --brief: Cadence meeting work that started outside Cadence.