Which kadence did you find?

Somebody said the word to you, you typed it into a search box, and you got a WordPress theme. Or a hybrid-work booking platform with a developer portal, which is worse, because that one looks like it could plausibly be the thing you were told about.

This page is the map. It exists because the name is crowded, and because a developer looking for one particular kadence currently has no way to tell which of them they are reading about until several clicks in.

Everything called kadence that a developer can land on

Then the homophone, which catches people who heard the name spoken rather than written: cadence, with a C. cadence-workflow/cadence is a distributed orchestration engine for long-running business logic. thomas-powers-jr/cadence is a verification layer that re-checks acceptance criteria for AI-assisted work — close enough in subject matter to this one to genuinely confuse someone.

Two traps worth naming before you lose an afternoon

Searching for the npm package finds the wrong one; installing it does not. Three of the first results for kadence npm package are the distributed-hash-table framework or a CDN copy of it, and none of them is this project. The registry disagrees with the search page: npm install kadence does install this one, at 0.8.1. The framework publishes under the scoped @kadenceproject/kadence, which is deprecated, and its deprecation notice points at @deadcanaries/kadence — a package the registry answers 404 for. If you were looking for the DHT, the undeprecated copy is kadence-kim.

The developer portal you found is probably the workplace platform. It has an API at api.kadence.co, a getting-started guide for developers, and a GitHub organisation. If you searched kadence developer and landed on documentation, that is almost certainly what you are reading, and it is about booking desks.

What the name is worth, measured

I ran five probes on one day, nine results each, and counted where the git-native CLI appeared:

Read down that column. The name on its own returns none of it. The name plus what the thing actually is returns it first. One word — cli, git, journal — moves it from absent to the top of the page.

That is not a ranking problem to be fixed. It is what a shared name means: eight products, and the search engine has no way to guess which one you meant until you tell it. A WordPress theme framework, a funded workplace platform and a market research agency all have a longer claim on the word than an eleven-day-old domain does, and none of them is going to stop using their own name.

So the practical answer, if you are looking for this one specifically: say the noun as well as the name. kadence git journal finds it. kadence developer finds desks.

Which one you are looking for

If what you were told about was a WordPress site builder, a way to book a desk, a peer-to-peer networking library, or dinner — the table above has your link and this is the wrong page.

If what you were told about was a command-line tool that keeps tasks in your git repository as an append-only journal, so that your team and your coding agents read the same record — that is this one. The distinguishing facts, so you can confirm it is what you were promised before installing anything:

• it is a CLI, installed from npm, currently version 0.8.1
• it stores tasks as events in your repo, not in a database or a hosted service
• 125 KB packed, MIT licensed
• the reason it exists is merge conflicts: across 8,396 merge commits in 130 public repositories using file-based trackers, task-file conflicts hit 15% of repositories, and 89% of those are the content conflicts an append-only journal removes
• an agent asking it one question reads 982 bytes, and that does not grow as the project does

Every one of those numbers names the test that keeps it true, which is the habit this project is built around and the reason this page tells you plainly that it ranks nowhere for its own name.

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