feat(cli): allow setting project name in .chainloop.yaml

Extend DotChainloopConfig to support a `project` field so that
`chainloop attestation init` can read the project name from the
config file when the --project flag is not provided.

Precedence: CLI flag > .chainloop.yaml > default.

Example .chainloop.yaml:
  project: my-project
  projectVersion: v1.2.0

Note: organization override from .chainloop.yaml is not included
in this PR because the org is baked into the gRPC connection
credentials during PersistentPreRunE, before att init's PreRunE
runs. Supporting org override requires loading the config earlier
in the command lifecycle — left for follow-up discussion.

Fixes: #3063

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Vibhav Bobade <vibhav.bobde@gmail.com>

Author: waveywaves

app/cli/cmd/attestation_init.go

@@ -55,19 +55,23 @@ func newAttestationInitCmd() *cobra.Command {
 				return errors.New("workflow name is required, set it via --workflow flag")
 			}
 
-			// load version from the file if not set and not using --latest-version
-			if projectVersion == "" && !useLatestVersion {
-				// load the cfg from the file
+			// Load project name and version from .chainloop.yaml when the
+			// corresponding CLI flags are not provided.
+			// Precedence: CLI flag > .chainloop.yaml > default/auto-discovery.
+			if projectName == "" || (projectVersion == "" && !useLatestVersion) {
 				cfg, path, err := loadDotChainloopConfigWithParentTraversal()
-				// we do gracefully load, if not found, or any other error we continue
 				if err != nil {
 					logger.Debug().Msgf("failed to load chainloop config: %s", err)
-					return nil
+				} else {
+					if projectName == "" && cfg.Project != "" {
+						logger.Debug().Msgf("loaded project %q from config file %s", cfg.Project, path)
+						projectName = cfg.Project
+					}
+					if projectVersion == "" && !useLatestVersion && cfg.ProjectVersion != "" {
+						logger.Debug().Msgf("loaded version %q from config file %s", cfg.ProjectVersion, path)
+						projectVersion = cfg.ProjectVersion
+					}
 				}
-
-				logger.Debug().Msgf("loaded version %s from config file %s", cfg.ProjectVersion, path)
-
-				projectVersion = cfg.ProjectVersion
 			}
 
 			if useLatestVersion && projectVersion != "" {
@@ -154,7 +158,7 @@ func newAttestationInitCmd() *cobra.Command {
 			}
 
 			if projectName == "" {
-				logger.Warn().Msg("DEPRECATION WARNING: --project not set, this will be required in the near future")
+				logger.Warn().Msg("DEPRECATION WARNING: project not set via --project flag or .chainloop.yaml, this will be required in the near future")
 			}
 
 			return output.EncodeOutput(flagOutputFormat, res, fullStatusTable)
@@ -173,8 +177,7 @@ func newAttestationInitCmd() *cobra.Command {
 	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&workflowName, "workflow-name", "", "name of the workflow to run the attestation")
 	cobra.CheckErr(cmd.Flags().MarkDeprecated("workflow-name", "please use --workflow instead"))
 
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&projectName, "project", "", "name of the project of this workflow")
-	cobra.CheckErr(cmd.MarkFlagRequired("project"))
+	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&projectName, "project", "", "name of the project of this workflow (can also be set in .chainloop.yaml)")
 	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&newWorkflowcontract, "contract", "", "name of an existing contract or the path/URL to a contract file, to attach it to the auto-created workflow (it doesn't update an existing one)")
 
 	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&projectVersion, "version", "", "project version, i.e 0.1.0")

app/cli/cmd/config.go

@@ -161,4 +161,5 @@ func isDir(filename string) bool {
 
 type DotChainloopConfig struct {
 	ProjectVersion string `yaml:"projectVersion"`
+	Project        string `yaml:"project"`
 }

app/cli/documentation/cli-reference.mdx

@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ Options
 --existing-version        return an error if the version doesn't exist in the project
 -h, --help                    help for init
 --latest-version          use the latest existing project version instead of specifying one
---project string          name of the project of this workflow
+--project string          name of the project of this workflow (can also be set in .chainloop.yaml)
 --release                 promote the provided version as a release
 --remote-state            Store the attestation state remotely
 -f, --replace                 replace any existing in-progress attestation