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ryan-brosas (@ryan-brosas) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Cline Foundation by ryan-brosas — Agent Skill

Name: Cline Foundation
Author: ryan-brosas

Cline Foundation

Use when porting Cline's agentic-runtime core — context compaction (trigger budget, overflow-recovery ladder, safe cuts, no-LLM fold), compaction state projection with prefix hashes, runtime safety (loop detection, mistake tracker), pending-prompt steer/queue gate, local hub-daemon transport plane (discovery record, mkdir-lock mutex, ensure/retire ladders, WS envelope, subscription refcounts), claim-once env sentinels with supervised-child restart/adoption, hub command router (authority/drain gates, degraded replies), monotonic shutdown coordination, disk-truth cron reconciliation, agenda task persistence kernel (run-admission gates, exactly-once terminals, crash triage, revision+content-hash CAS), strict/tolerant Markdown intent grammars, location containment, todo-tool scope gate, workspace file-index TTL worker, @mention budget matching, ACP stdio bridge (stdio hygiene, fail-closed permissions, streaming/replay, session lifecycle, config options). Source code and direct tests are ground truth.

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Cline: agentic coding-agent runtime core

Foundation contract

This is a cold, source-specific foundation, not an operational procedure. It is historical, revision-pinned evidence rather than timeless guidance. Current project source, tests, requirements, and runtime behavior outrank this projection and decide what ships.

Provenance and revision

Source record: cline; portable upstream identity, license, coverage caveats, and retrieval history are preserved in the index.
Recorded revision: main@4f836ae7d0ed29ece7ef4a2a478deb470fdd056e.
Full provenance, coverage caveats, boundaries, and preserved evidence: references/index.md.

Topic map

Representative topics: Context compaction (sdk/packages/core/src/extensions/context/); Session state (src/session/models/); Runtime safety (src/runtime/safety/, src/runtime/turn-queue/); Hub/daemon transport (src/hub/: discovery/, daemon/, client/, server/handlers/); Connector supervision (src/services/connectors/, sdk/packages/shared/src/runtime/); Scheduling & teams (src/cron/specs/, src/session/team/); Agenda task kernel (src/tasks/); Hub schedule commands (src/cron/service/, src/hub/server/).
Scope and retrieval questions: references/index.md#use-this-for.
Complete capsule chooser: references/index.md#load-the-matching-source-dump.
Detailed grouped map: references/index.md#capsule-map.
Source limitations and portability boundaries: references/index.md#boundaries.

Retrieval

Open the index, choose one capsule matching the active question, and load only that capsule. Revalidate its cited source and revision before relying on it. Do not bulk-load the inventory, treat historical claims as current truth, or apply this foundation as a procedure.

---name: cline-foundationdescription: Use when porting Cline's agentic-runtime core — context compaction (trigger budget, overflow-recovery ladder, safe cuts, no-LLM fold), compaction state projection with prefix hashes, runtime safety (loop detection, mistake tracker), pending-prompt steer/queue gate, local hub-daemon transport plane (discovery record, mkdir-lock mutex, ensure/retire ladders, WS envelope, subscription refcounts), claim-once env sentinels with supervised-child restart/adoption, hub command router (authority/drain gates, degraded replies), monotonic shutdown coordination, disk-truth cron reconciliation, agenda task persistence kernel (run-admission gates, exactly-once terminals, crash triage, revision+content-hash CAS), strict/tolerant Markdown intent grammars, location containment, todo-tool scope gate, workspace file-index TTL worker, @mention budget matching, ACP stdio bridge (stdio hygiene, fail-closed permissions, streaming/replay, session lifecycle, config options). Source code and direct tests are ground truth.---# Cline: agentic coding-agent runtime core## Foundation contractThis is a cold, source-specific foundation, not an operational procedure. It ishistorical, revision-pinned evidence rather than timeless guidance. Currentproject source, tests, requirements, and runtime behavior outrank thisprojection and decide what ships.## Provenance and revision- Source record: `cline`; portable upstream identity, license, coverage caveats, and retrieval history are preserved in the index.- Recorded revision: `main@4f836ae7d0ed29ece7ef4a2a478deb470fdd056e`.- Full provenance, coverage caveats, boundaries, and preserved evidence: `references/index.md`.## Topic map- Representative topics: Context compaction (sdk/packages/core/src/extensions/context/); Session state (src/session/models/); Runtime safety (src/runtime/safety/, src/runtime/turn-queue/); Hub/daemon transport (src/hub/: discovery/, daemon/, client/, server/handlers/); Connector supervision (src/services/connectors/, sdk/packages/shared/src/runtime/); Scheduling & teams (src/cron/specs/, src/session/team/); Agenda task kernel (src/tasks/); Hub schedule commands (src/cron/service/, src/hub/server/).- Scope and retrieval questions: `references/index.md#use-this-for`.- Complete capsule chooser: `references/index.md#load-the-matching-source-dump`.- Detailed grouped map: `references/index.md#capsule-map`.- Source limitations and portability boundaries: `references/index.md#boundaries`.## RetrievalOpen the index, choose one capsule matching the active question, and load onlythat capsule. Revalidate its cited source and revision before relying on it. Donot bulk-load the inventory, treat historical claims as current truth, or applythis foundation as a procedure.

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