Aidlc

An OpenCode plugin that adds the AWS AI-DLC workflow as slash commands and installs the official awslabs/aidlc-workflows rule bundle into your project.

What you get

Nine slash commands wrapping the AI-DLC adaptive workflow:

Command	Purpose
/aidlc	Start the AI-DLC workflow on a new intent
/aidlc-analyze	Reverse-engineer an existing codebase (brownfield)
/aidlc-plan	Generate or refresh the execution plan for approval
/aidlc-build	Run the Construction phase (per-unit design + code gen)
/aidlc-test	Generate and run build & test
/aidlc-status	Read-only workflow status
/aidlc-resume	Resume an in-progress AI-DLC project
/aidlc-refine	Amend intent / units / design without losing state
/aidlc-reflect	Retrospective of the AI-DLC cycle

The commands reference the AI-DLC rules at .aidlc/aidlc-rules/aws-aidlc-rules/core-workflow.md, which setup installs for you.

Requirements

• OpenCode
• Node.js 18+ (used by the setup command)

Install

Published on npm as opencode-aidlc. The quickest way is to run the bundled setup once in your project — no global install or dependency required:

# npm
npx opencode-aidlc@latest setup

# pnpm
pnpm dlx opencode-aidlc@latest setup

# Bun
bunx opencode-aidlc@latest setup

This will:

1. Copy the nine commands into .opencode/commands/ (OpenCode does not auto-discover commands from npm packages, so they are copied locally).
2. Install the AI-DLC rule bundle into .aidlc/aidlc-rules/ only if it does not already exist — it never overwrites rules you have customized. The latest release is downloaded from awslabs/aidlc-workflows; if you are offline, a copy vendored in this package is used instead.
3. Register opencode-aidlc in your opencode.json plugin array. The config location is auto-detected: if an opencode.json/opencode.jsonc already exists in the project root or in .opencode/, that file is updated; otherwise it defaults to the project root (./opencode.json).

Options

npx opencode-aidlc setup --global       # install commands in ~/.config/opencode/commands
npx opencode-aidlc setup --force        # overwrite existing command files
npx opencode-aidlc setup --nested       # register the plugin in .opencode/opencode.json
npx opencode-aidlc setup --root         # register the plugin in ./opencode.json (default)
npx opencode-aidlc setup --no-register  # don't modify opencode.json

Rules are always installed at the project level (in ./.aidlc/), even with --global, because they live alongside aidlc-docs/ for each project.

Pin it as a project dependency (optional)

If you'd rather lock the version in your repo instead of using @latest:

npm install -D opencode-aidlc      # or: pnpm add -D opencode-aidlc
npx opencode-aidlc setup

Updating

Re-run setup with --force after upgrading to refresh the command files:

npx opencode-aidlc@latest setup --force

Your .aidlc/aidlc-rules/ is never overwritten. To pull the latest upstream rules, delete that folder first and re-run setup.

How it relates to OpenCode plugins

This is a regular OpenCode plugin (it exposes a plugin entry in opencode.json's plugin array — either ./opencode.json or .opencode/opencode.json, both of which OpenCode loads), but it has no runtime hooks today — the entry is a no-op placeholder. All behavior is delivered through the slash commands and the rule bundle installed by setup.

Maintainer notes

npm run build         # regenerate commands/*.md from src/commands.js
npm run vendor:rules  # refresh the offline rules/ bundle from the pinned release

To bump the vendored rules, update PINNED_VERSION in src/rules.js and run npm run vendor:rules.

Author

Built by Jonathan González at Dynamic Devs — jgonzalez@dynamicdevs.io.

Licensing

This package is MIT licensed. The vendored rule bundle under rules/ comes from awslabs/aidlc-workflows and is licensed MIT-0; see NOTICE.