Quick examples

A grab-bag of recipes. Copy, adjust, run.

Ad-hoc prompt to PR

cascade prompt "Add cursor pagination to /api/users with ?limit and ?after query params"

Quickest path to a PR. Useful for the long tail of small features.

Jira ticket to PR

cascade ticket jira:PROJ-123

Pulls the title and description from Jira and runs the full pipeline.

GitHub issue to PR

cascade ticket github:myorg/myrepo#42

Works on any GitHub issue you have read access to.

Meeting recording to PR

cascade ingest recordings/standup-2026-09-25.mp3
cascade extract transcripts/standup-2026-09-25.yaml
cascade review stories/standup-2026-09-25.yaml
cascade build stories/standup-2026-09-25.yaml

Each step writes a YAML file you can inspect or edit before moving on.

Dry run (no PR)

cascade prompt "Refactor User.save to use the new repository pattern" --no-pr

Same pipeline, but stops after the local commit. Useful for verifying Cascade’s output before pushing to a remote.

Override the language

cascade build stories/sprint.yaml --language go

Forces the Go language profile even if auto-detection would pick something else.

Use a specific model

cascade prompt "Add OAuth" --model claude-opus-4-7

Per-call override. Defaults live in cascade.yaml or ~/.config/cascade/config.yaml.

Build only one story from a batch

cascade build stories/sprint.yaml --story 3

Build just the third approved story. Useful when reviewing batches.

Branch off something other than main

cascade build stories/sprint.yaml --base-branch develop

Default is main. Override per-call when needed.