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+### misterdev
 
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-<p><strong>Autonomous LLM build orchestrator: plans a goal into tasks, edits code with anchored SEARCH/REPLACE, and verifies every change through build/test/lint/typecheck gates before reporting done. Runs as a CLI or MCP server.</strong></p>
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+Autonomous LLM build orchestrator: plans a goal into tasks, edits code with anchored SEARCH/REPLACE, and verifies every change through build/test/lint/typecheck gates before reporting done. Runs as a CLI or MCP server.
 
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-  <a href="https://github.com/dcondrey/misterdev/actions/workflows/ci.yml"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/dcondrey/misterdev/ci.yml?style=flat-square&labelColor=20232a&branch=main&label=CI" alt="CI"></a>
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-  <a href="#install">Install</a>
-  &middot; <a href="#what-it-does">What it does</a>
-  &middot; <a href="#cli-reference">CLI</a>
-  &middot; <a href="#extending-misterdev">Extending</a>
-  &middot; <a href="#configuration">Configuration</a>
-  &middot; <a href="#development">Development</a>
-  &middot; <a href="#license">License</a>
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+[![CI](https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/dcondrey/misterdev/ci.yml?branch=main&style=flat-square&label=CI)](https://github.com/dcondrey/misterdev/actions/workflows/ci.yml) [![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/misterdev?style=flat-square)](https://pypi.org/project/misterdev/) [![License](https://img.shields.io/github/license/dcondrey/misterdev?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/dcondrey/misterdev/blob/main/LICENSE)
 
 Point misterdev at a repository and a goal. It reads the codebase as a symbol graph, decomposes the goal into concrete tasks, and works each one in a try-edit-verify loop: it emits an anchored SEARCH/REPLACE edit, applies it against the file on disk, and runs the change through a sequence of correctness gates — build, tests, lint, typecheck, and any optional gates you enable. A gate that fails RED blocks the change; a gate that has nothing to check SKIPs and never blocks. When a change regresses the suite, misterdev reverts it through git. Nothing merges unless it stays green.