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+# v1.39.0-rc.6 Release Notes
+
+Pre-release candidate. Published to npm under the `next` tag.
+
+```bash
+npx get-shit-done-cc@next
+```
+
+---
+
+## What's in this release
+
+**rc.6 is a republish of rc.5.** No new fixes were rolled in — `release/1.39.0`
+was bumped from `1.39.0-rc.5` to `1.39.0-rc.6` without first being merged with
+`main`, so the branch contents at the time of tag are byte-for-byte equivalent
+to rc.5 plus the version-bump commit.
+
+```bash
+$ git log v1.39.0-rc.5..v1.39.0-rc.6 --pretty='%h %s'
+388118d8 chore: bump to 1.39.0-rc.6
+```
+
+If you are already on `1.39.0-rc.5`, there is nothing new to install in rc.6.
+The expected next step is an rc.7 cut that first merges `main` into
+`release/1.39.0` so the eight fixes that landed after rc.5 reach the registry.
+
+---
+
+## What was in rc.5
+
+### Fixed
+
+**Codex hooks migrator correctness hardening** (#2809)
+
+Five edge-cases in the `[[hooks.<Event>]]` → `[[hooks.<Event>.hooks]]` two-level
+nested schema migration path, discovered across five rounds of code review:
+
+| Finding | Fix |
+|---------|-----|
+| `parseHooksBody` used a bare regex (`/^([\w.]+)\s*=/`) that silently dropped hyphenated keys such as `status-message` and any quoted TOML key | Replaced with `parseTomlKey()`, the existing full TOML key parser |
+| `buildNestedBlock` unconditionally emitted `[[hooks.TYPE.hooks]]` even when no handler fields were present, producing an entry with `type = "command"` but no `command` | Added guard: matcher-only / handler-field-free sections emit only the event-entry block |
+| `legacyMapSections` filter used `section.path.startsWith('hooks.')` without checking the segment count, so three-segment tables like `[hooks.SessionStart.hooks]` were misclassified as event entries and re-emitted as bogus nested events | Now uses `section.segments.length === 2` (same fix previously applied to `staleNamespacedAotSections`) |
+| No regression test for quoted event names containing dots — `[[hooks."before.tool"]]` has a 2-segment path but 3 dot-parts, and a `split('.')` check would misclassify it | Regression test added; quoted-dot names are correctly treated as a single two-segment namespace |
+| Handler command path assertion in install tests used a regex (`/gsd-check-update\.js/`) rather than the exact absolute path | Strengthened to `assert.strictEqual` with `path.join(codexHome, 'hooks', 'gsd-check-update.js')` |
+
+---
+
+## What was in rc.4
+
+### Added
+
+**`--minimal` install flag** (alias `--core-only`) (#2762)
+
+Writes only the six core skills needed to run the main workflow loop:
+`new-project`, `discuss-phase`, `plan-phase`, `execute-phase`, `help`, `update`.
+No `gsd-*` subagents are installed.
+
+| Mode | Cold-start system-prompt overhead |
+|------|-----------------------------------|
+| full (default) | ~12k tokens |
+| minimal | ~700 tokens |
+
+Useful for local LLMs with 32K–128K context windows. Sonnet 4.6 / Opus 4.7 users
+don't need it — the full surface is the right default for cloud models.
+
+The install manifest records `mode: "minimal" | "full"`. Run `gsd update` without
+`--minimal` at any time to expand to the full skill set.
+
+### Fixed (rc.4)
+
+**Codex install no longer corrupts `~/.codex/config.toml`** (#2760)
+
+The installer now:
+
+- Strips legacy `[agents]` (single-bracket) and `[[agents]]` (sequence) blocks
+  unconditionally — both are invalid in the current Codex TOML schema, regardless of
+  whether a GSD marker is present.
+- Emits the GSD-managed hook in the shape the user's config already uses:
+  `[[hooks.<Event>]]` namespaced AoT if any existing hook uses that form, otherwise
+  top-level `[[hooks]]`.
+- Migrates any legacy `[hooks.<Event>]` (map format) to `[[hooks.<Event>]]` (array
+  format) during write.
+- Writes atomically via a temp file + `renameSync` — no partial writes.
+- Validates the post-write bytes with a strict TOML parser that rejects duplicate
+  keys, repeated table headers, trailing bytes after values, and unsupported value
+  types.
+- On any pre-write or write-time failure, restores the pre-install snapshot and aborts
+  with a clear error instead of warn-and-continue.
+
+---
+
+## Installing the pre-release
+
+```bash
+# npm
+npm install -g get-shit-done-cc@next
+
+# npx (one-shot)
+npx get-shit-done-cc@next
+```
+
+To pin to this exact RC:
+
+```bash
+npm install -g get-shit-done-cc@1.39.0-rc.6
+```
+
+---
+
+## What's next
+
+- **rc.7** — cut from `release/1.39.0` after merging `main` into the release branch,
+  so the eight fixes that landed after rc.5 (#2828, #2829, #2831, #2832, #2835,
+  #2836, #2838, #2839) actually reach the registry.
+- Run `finalize` on the release workflow to promote `1.39.0` to `latest` once an RC
+  with the full main-branch contents is stable.