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Revamp README: re-frame intro, simplify sections, add visual polish#48

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Refreshes the README for the open-source rollout — a re-framing and visual-polish pass on top of the earlier from-scratch rewrite (roadmap item ticked, not a reopen).

What changed

  • Intro re-framed — leads with AI agents / automation / human-in-the-loop, then context economy, with documentation de-emphasized to a closing mention; folds in the engineering-best-practices framing (CDD applies best practices to itself and enforces tests/docs/lint/format on every change).
  • Sections simplifiedHow it works (10 steps → 7), Quick start (guided flow leads), Questions, and Status.
  • Visual polish — hero banner (doc/assets/social-preview.png), an expanded badge row (License, Built with Claude Code, Issues welcome, status — alongside the existing template-smoke CI badge), tasteful heading emojis, and a refreshed task-cycle.png.

README-only; no process-doc or template counterpart.

Pre-PR reconciliation (this branch)

  • Fixed stale phrasing: the prose and image alt text said the human gates run "across the top," but the new task-cycle.png places them down the left side — reconciled both.
  • Renamed doc/assets/cdd-social-preview.pngsocial-preview.png so the filename no longer trips the prompt-seam check as a phantom /cdd-* command; updated the banner reference and the roadmap annotation.

Verification

Docs/image-only change, no test surface. bash -n (all scripts), command-drift-check.sh, and prompt-seam-check.sh all clean; no upstream drift.

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drabaioli and others added 4 commits July 4, 2026 20:50
Re-order the intro emphasis to lead with AI-agent coding, automation, and
the human-in-the-loop gates; then context economy; then engineering best
practices, with documentation de-emphasized to a closing mention. Simplify
How it works (10 steps → 7), Quick start (guided flow leads), Questions, and
Status. Add a hero banner reference (doc/assets/banner.png), an expanded
badge row, and tasteful heading emojis. Record the pass as a checked Phase 12
roadmap item (does not reopen the completed README rewrite).

README-only change plus the roadmap edit; no process-doc/template counterpart.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…eview.png

The hero banner is doc/assets/cdd-social-preview.png (reused as the social
preview), not a separate banner.png. Update the README reference and its alt
text (green wordmark, orange period) and the roadmap path mention. Also commit
the refreshed task-cycle diagram.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The task-cycle diagram now places the human gates down the left side, not
across the top; fix the "How it works" prose and image alt text to match.
Rename doc/assets/cdd-social-preview.png -> social-preview.png so the
filename no longer trips the prompt-seam check as a phantom /cdd-* command;
update the README banner reference and the roadmap annotation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… title emojis

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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drabaioli merged commit dcb7b47 into main Jul 5, 2026
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drabaioli deleted the readme_revamp branch July 5, 2026 21:22
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