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devpace

Give your Claude Code projects a steady development pace — requirements change, rhythm stays.

A development harness for Claude Code — rules, schemas, gates, and feedback loops that keep AI-assisted development traceable and measurable.

Why devpace

When using Claude Code for product development:

Problem	Without devpace	With devpace
Requirements change = chaos	"Add a feature" triggers cascading confusion, nobody knows the blast radius	Impact analysis + orderly adjustment, Claude won't change the plan on its own
Inconsistent quality	Claude sometimes skips tests, forgets checks	Auto-checks + human approval, quality gates cannot be bypassed
Work drifts from goals	Technical work disconnects from business goals, lots done but unclear value	Goal-to-code traceability at all times
Re-explain everything each session	Manual approach needs 8 user corrections (3 interruption test)	Auto-restores context, 0 corrections

See full walkthrough: from init to done

30-Second Experience

/pace-init                 ← Initialize (once)
"Help me implement user auth" ← Claude auto-tracks tasks, writes code, runs tests, checks quality
"approve" or "reject"      ← You decide whether to merge
"add an export feature"    ← Claude analyzes impact, adjusts plan, waits for your confirmation
"pause auth for now"       ← Impact analysis → pause (preserving work) → adjust plan

Next session, Claude reports: "Last time we stopped at auth module, continue?" — zero manual re-explanation.

Full Development Lifecycle

Opportunity ──→ Epic ──→ Requirements ──→ Features ──→ Code Changes ──→ Quality ──→ Ship
        │          │           │              │              │              │           │
     pace-biz   pace-biz   pace-biz       pace-plan      pace-dev     pace-review  pace-release
                                          pace-change                              pace-feedback

Requirements can change anytime — /pace-change auto-analyzes impact, adjusts the plan, and waits for your confirmation.

After each cycle, /pace-retro shows quality metrics and improvement trends.

How It Works

devpace builds a goal-to-code traceability chain in your project:

1. Goal alignment — Every code change links back to a business goal. No work without purpose.
2. Auto quality gates — Claude auto-checks code quality and requirement consistency, self-repairs on failure. Human approval cannot be skipped.
3. Change is normal — Requirements changed? Auto impact analysis, orderly adjustment, existing work preserved.
4. Interrupt-proof — Session broke? Auto-resume next time. All state in .devpace/ as plain Markdown.

Under the hood: a Claude Code Plugin using Rules (behavioral guidelines) + Skills (/pace-* commands) + Hooks (auto-triggers at critical moments).

Installation

Prerequisite: Claude Code CLI must be installed.

Marketplace Install (Recommended)

# Step 1: Register marketplace (one-time)
/plugin marketplace add arch-team/devpace-marketplace

# Step 2: Install
/plugin install devpace@devpace

From Source

git clone https://github.com/arch-team/devpace.git
claude --plugin-dir /path/to/devpace

Verify Installation

After installing, type /pace- in Claude Code. If devpace is loaded, you'll see auto-complete suggestions for /pace-init, /pace-dev, /pace-status, etc.

Commands

Most of the time you don't need commands — saying "help me implement X" equals /pace-dev, "where are we" equals /pace-status.

Start Here (5 commands cover 90% of daily work)

Command	Purpose
/pace-init	First-time setup (once)
/pace-dev	Start coding — or just say "help me implement X"
/pace-status	Check progress — or say "where are we"
/pace-review	Approve changes
/pace-next	Not sure what's next? Get AI recommendations

More Commands

As your project grows, devpace offers change management, iteration planning, business alignment, release orchestration, and more. See User Guide for all 19 commands.

Quick reference: /pace-change (requirements changed) · /pace-plan (plan iterations) · /pace-retro (review metrics) · /pace-biz (business planning) · /pace-release (ship it)

Core Capabilities

Change Management (Core Differentiator)

Capability	Description
Requirement changes	Add features, pause, change scope — auto impact analysis, orderly adjustment, Claude won't change the plan unilaterally
Complexity awareness	Auto-assesses task complexity, small changes fast-track, large changes full process, complexity drift auto-detected
Technical debt management	tech-debt CR type + iteration capacity reservation + trend tracking
Architecture decisions	/pace-trace arch manages cross-CR Architecture Decision Records (ADR)

Quality & Traceability

Capability	Description
Quality gates	Code quality + requirement consistency auto-check + adversarial review, human approval cannot be skipped
Goal traceability	From business goals to code changes, always traceable
Test verification	Requirements-driven — strategy generation, coverage analysis, AI acceptance verification, change impact regression
Semantic drift detection	Continuous monitoring of code-requirement alignment during development, Review includes semantic consistency score

Development Rhythm

Capability	Description
Cross-session restore	Session interrupted? Auto-resume, zero re-explanation, experience persists across sessions
Iteration management	Plan → Execute → Review full cycle, auto-recommends next step
Progressive autonomy	Assisted / Standard / Autonomous — more guidance for new users, less for experienced ones
DORA proxy metrics	Deploy frequency / Lead time / Failure rate / MTTR proxy values, Elite~Low benchmarks + trend comparison
CI/CD awareness	Auto-detects CI tool type, Gate 4 auto-queries CI status, zero config
Risk fabric	OWASP-aware security scanning + Pre-flight 5-dimension risk scan + Runtime monitoring + Graduated autonomous response (High requires human confirmation)
Delivery prediction	AI-powered iteration delivery probability forecasting, bottleneck identification, and risk early warning
Cross-project insights	High-confidence insights exportable/importable to other projects, reducing redundant learning

Workflow

Two Modes

• Explore mode (default): Freely read code, analyze problems, discuss approaches. No process triggered.
• Advance mode (when changing code): Auto-creates tasks, tracks progress, checks quality. Small changes fast-track, large changes full process.

When unsure, Claude asks: "Ready to start coding, or just exploring?"

Workflow

Normal flow:
Start ──→ In Progress ──→ Pending Review ──→ Done
              │                │
        Auto quality check  You approve      Auto merge + status update
        (Claude handles)   (you decide)

Anytime:
  Requirements changed ──→ Impact analysis ──→ Adjust plan ──→ Continue
  Session interrupted  ──→ Next session auto-resumes from where you left off

Full cycle (optional):
  Plan (pace-plan) → Build (pace-dev) → Review (pace-retro) → Next cycle

Design Principles

Principle	Meaning
Zero friction	Natural language works, no jargon to learn
Progressive disclosure	Default 1-line output, details on demand
Byproducts not prerequisites	Structured data is auto-produced from work, not a required input
Interruption tolerance	Interrupt at any point, seamless resume next time

vs Alternatives

Dimension	GitHub Issues / Manual	devpace
Core model	Task list	Goal → Feature → Code Change traceability
Requirement changes	Manual impact assessment	Auto impact analysis + orderly adjustment
Claude's role	Executor (you direct each step)	Autonomous collaborator (auto-advances, self-checks, waits for your decisions)
Traceability	Task → Code	Business Goal → Feature → Change → Code
Metrics	Completion count	Quality pass rate + value alignment + DORA proxies

What devpace is NOT

• Not a CI/CD pipeline — it works alongside your existing tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
• Not a project management platform — no web dashboard, no team features, pure CLI
• Not a replacement for git — it creates Markdown state files in .devpace/, your code stays in git

Feedback

Tried devpace? Tell us what you think — one word or a full report, everything helps.

Learn More

• User Guide — Full command reference, modes, state machine details (中文)
• Walkthrough — Complete example from init to finish (中文)
• Contributing — Dev environment, testing, PR process
• Changelog — Version history (English summaries on GitHub Releases)
• Troubleshooting — Search known issues or open a new one

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