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jpmschweitzerandClaude Opus 4.7 a782511470 carry forward ADRs, Claude Code config, and changelog discipline
Ports the patterns that crystallized during the short-lived claudian
plugin project (discarded in favour of this Flutter rebuild):

- ADRs 0001-0004 capture decisions that survive the host change —
  CLI-first over MCP, Go for the sidecar, pql as a supporter tool
  that becomes a clide-managed subsystem when present, and the
  ignore-file strategy that wires all file-enumerating surfaces
  through one knob in .pql/config.yaml.
- .claude/settings.json and the git-commit and skill-create skills
  come over with naming updated for clide. The git-commit skill's
  "no Conventional Commits" convention supersedes the Python-era
  clide style under legacy/; the Keep-a-Changelog discipline and
  the project.yaml-version-and-changelog-bumped-together rule
  apply going forward.
- CHANGELOG.md starts fresh at the repo root to track the Flutter
  rebuild. The Python changelog is preserved under legacy/.

.gitignore narrows from `.claude/` to just `.claude/settings.local.json`
so project-level config and skills travel with the repo.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-20 20:38:49 +02:00

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# ADR 0001 — CLI-first, not MCP
**Status:** accepted
**Date:** 2026-04-20 (ported from the claudian lineage)
## Context
Clide exposes capabilities to Claude Code (panes, terminals, git,
pql queries, canvas, graph). The two mainstream options for that
interface are:
1. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server the agent connects to.
2. A plain Bash CLI the agent calls from its shell, matching the
contract `pql` already follows.
## Decision
Claude talks to Clide exclusively via Bash (`clide ...`). No MCP
server. No protocol layer in Claude's face. The CLI uses the same
exit-code + stderr-JSON contract as pql.
## Consequences
- Same mental model as pql for the agent — one tool-use pattern
covers both.
- No MCP runtime to host, authenticate, or keep in sync with client
versions.
- User/Claude parity is easier to enforce: every CLI subcommand must
have a UI affordance in the Flutter app and vice versa.
- Claude Code's `Bash(clide *)` allow rule is the only configuration
Clide needs on the agent side.
- If an MCP-only integration becomes compelling later (e.g. a
multi-agent scenario), nothing here precludes adding one that
shells out to the same CLI.