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IMO the raw Claude CLI is great for one-off interactive sessions, but as soon as you want repeatable multi-step workflows you’re either copy-pasting prompts forever or hacking your own solution manually. That’s exactly the gap these tools fill.

My take on a solution for this is https://ossature.dev — .smd spec markdown files + ossature audit / build that gives you DAG orchestration, SHA-traced increments, and tiny focused contexts.

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Isn’t a repeatable, multi-step workflow exactly what a script or Makefile does?

Yeah bash scripts start clean but the sprawl kicks in quick as the workflow and project becomes more complex. Prompts get copied, deps turn manual, and maintenance of your workflow itself becomes the chore.

Ossature swaps that for structured SMDs and optional AMDs. Multiple specs build a clean DAG that drops into an editable plan.toml so everything stays traceable without the mess.

Feel free to check the example projects on https://github.com/ossature/ossature-examples

> Yeah bash scripts start clean but the sprawl kicks in quick as the workflow and project becomes more complex.

Then just use Python.

That’s what Ossature is :)

I use bash scripts. Both Claude and Vibe support all kinds of arguments if you need a prompt to “become a task”. Bash is also deterministic and easy to read and debug.

can you elaborate on "easy to read and debug", because in my experience it is anything but

Compared to a random tool someone vibecoded?

what about a random bash script that somebody vibe coded

Had a quick look. Stumbled upon the markdown format smd.

Was wondering if using front-matter instead of a "custom" encoding for parseble data was considered?

Yeah, I did briefly consider front-matter, but ended up with inline @ tags because I thought it kept the entire document feeling like one coherent spec instead of header-data + body, front matter felt like config to me, but this is 0.0.1 so things might change :)

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