* chore: rename npm package + bin to @opengsd/gsd-core (functional)
- package.json: name @opengsd/get-shit-done-redux → @opengsd/gsd-core,
bin key get-shit-done-redux → gsd-core, repository/homepage/bugs URLs
- package-lock.json: regenerated (npm install --package-lock-only)
- tests/**, scripts/**, bin/**, .github/**, agents/**, commands/**,
get-shit-done/bin/**, get-shit-done/workflows/**:
applied the 4-rule replacement (scoped npm ref, GitHub repo path,
bin/clone invocations) per #505 single-source refactor
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: sweep live references to @opengsd/gsd-core
Update all live documentation (README.md + translations, docs/**,
CONTRIBUTING.md, VERSIONING.md, SECURITY.md, CONTEXT.md,
docs/CANARY.md) to reflect the renamed package and repository.
Rules applied:
- @opengsd/get-shit-done-redux → @opengsd/gsd-core (scoped npm name)
- open-gsd/get-shit-done-redux → open-gsd/gsd-core (GitHub repo)
- GSD-redux/get-shit-done-redux → open-gsd/gsd-core (stale badge org)
- bare bin/clone refs → gsd-core
CHANGELOG.md, docs/adr/**, docs/RELEASE-*.md, docs/research/**,
and .changeset/** are preserved byte-identical.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: add negative lookbehind to slash-command regex in bug-2954 test
The extractSlashReferences regex matched /gsd-core inside npm package
URLs (@opengsd/gsd-core), producing a false /gsd:core command reference.
Adding a negative lookbehind (?<![a-z]) excludes matches preceded by a
letter, so only standalone /gsd-<cmd> and /gsd:<cmd> tokens are found.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore(#518): add changeset for package rename
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(#518): update package-identity expectations to the renamed coordinates
The rebase regenerated the seam to @opengsd/gsd-core (bin gsd-core, repo
open-gsd/gsd-core). The #498 seam tests assert deriveIdentity against the REAL
package.json, so their expected literals must follow the rename. The drift-lint
unit test is left as-is — its SEAM is a self-consistent fixture and its
stale-literal detection cases would shift if altered; the live-repo scan in it
already passes.
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The gsd_run resolver preamble now probes
<repo-root>/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/${_GSD_SHIM_NAME} as the second
check — immediately after the existing get-shit-done/bin/ check and
before command -v / $HOME/.claude fallbacks. This covers the install
layout produced by npx @opengsd/get-shit-done-redux@latest --claude --local.
A _GSD_RUNTIME_ROOT variable is introduced to bind the repo-root
expression once and reuse it for both checks without repeating the
git rev-parse subshell.
76 workflow files regenerated via node scripts/sync-runtime-launcher.cjs.
All parity, size-budget, and new regression tests pass.
Co-authored-by: CI Rebase Check <ci@gsd-redux>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Extends the canonical runtime-launcher snippet with a third resolution arm
that probes $HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/${_GSD_SHIM_NAME} between the
PATH check and the hard-error exit. Global Claude-Code installs (--claude
without --local) with no PATH wiring and no RUNTIME_DIR no longer hit the
hard-error path.
Resolution order: local/RUNTIME_DIR -> PATH -> ~/.claude/... -> hard error.
Propagated to 76 workflow .md files via sync-runtime-launcher.cjs. Parity
test (G) and bug-211 regression test (4 assertions) added.
* fix(#373): replace unquoted $GSD_SDK with space-safe gsd_run launcher
Workflow bash blocks resolved the runtime as GSD_SDK="node $GSD_TOOLS" and
invoked it unquoted ($GSD_SDK query ...). On install paths containing spaces
(e.g. /Volumes/Mini Me/...) the unquoted expansion word-split into
`node /Volumes/Mini gsd-tools.cjs ...`, failing with "Cannot find module
'/Volumes/Mini'" and getting masked by `2>/dev/null || echo "{}"` into a
silent empty state.
Replace the string variable with a single-line shell launcher that defines a
gsd_run function, invokes the runtime with a fully-quoted path and "$@", and
preserves the local-cjs / installed-gsd-tools-on-PATH fallback (#3668) plus
the loud not-found error and install hint. The launcher uses _GSD_SHIM_NAME
indirection so no workflow emits the /gsd-tools substring that the do.md
dispatcher-parity scanner would misread, and is single-line to stay within
the per-file progressive-disclosure line budgets (#2551).
The canonical launcher lives in
get-shit-done/workflows/_runtime-launcher.snippet.sh, is propagated once per
file by scripts/sync-runtime-launcher.cjs, and is locked by
tests/runtime-launcher-parity.test.cjs (fails CI on drift, on a reappearing
$GSD_SDK token, or on a /gsd-tools substring). Dependent workflow-assertion
tests are updated from $GSD_SDK to gsd_run, and the runtime launcher is
registered in CONTEXT.md.
Fixes#373
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* ci(#373): add changeset fragment and allow-test-rule for parity guard
The runtime-launcher parity test is a structural drift guard that reads
workflow markdown to assert the canonical launcher is present and the
retired $GSD_SDK / /gsd-tools tokens are absent; annotate it with
allow-test-rule per the no-source-grep lint escape hatch. Add the required
.changeset fragment for this user-facing fix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(#373): make parity PATH-fallback assertion cross-platform (Windows)
Subtest (E) compared GSD_TOOLS against the Node-side absolute temp path,
but the value originates from git-bash which reports the POSIX form, so the
prefix comparison failed on windows-latest while the launcher itself worked
(the installed stub was invoked). Assert the resolved binary by normalized
suffix (/bin/gsd-tools, not .cjs) instead of the absolute prefix; the
behavioral stub-invocation assertion is unchanged.
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* fix(#170): update workflow fallback install hint package
* chore(#170): add changeset for workflow fallback hint migration
* fix(#170): mark workflow-hint test as structural text contract
* fix(3668): isolate --local install from global gsd-sdk
- `buildGsdSdkVersionMismatchReport` now accepts `opts.isLocal`; when
true it sets `fix_command` to `npx get-shit-done-cc@latest --claude
--local` instead of `npm install -g …`, removing the misleading global
upgrade suggestion for local installs.
- Propagate `isLocal` from `installSdkIfNeeded` into the mismatch report
builder so the right fix_command reaches the renderer.
- Export `buildGsdSdkVersionMismatchReport` and
`renderGsdSdkVersionMismatchReport` so tests can assert on the IR
contract directly.
- Add `command -v gsd-sdk … elif node "$GSD_TOOLS"` preflight SDK
resolution block to all 69 workflow files that called bare `gsd-sdk`
with no fallback, matching the pattern established in update.md,
execute-phase.md, and quick.md.
- Add `tests/bug-3668-local-install-sdk-soft-dep.test.cjs` with 5 tests
covering Defects 1-3, including a CI lint guard that blocks future
workflow regressions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* changeset: add Fixed entry for #3668
* fix(3668): add allow-test-rule to suppress false lint-no-source-grep violation
The test reads workflow .md files (product content) to assert structural
invariants — not .cjs source files. The file-presence check is the only
viable IR for markdown guard patterns. Add the // allow-test-rule annotation
so lint-no-source-grep passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(3668): fix do.md false-positive and discuss-phase.md size overflow
Two CI failures introduced by the 69-workflow preflight block:
1. do.md: the path `bin/gsd-tools.cjs` contains `/gsd-tools` which the
bug-2954 parity test regex `/\/gsd[:-]([a-z][a-z0-9-]*)/g` mistakenly
extracts as a slash command named `tools`. Fix: store the shim filename
in _GSD_SHIM_NAME so the path construction no longer contains a static
`/gsd-tools` literal. Also wire $GSD_SDK into the actual query call.
2. discuss-phase.md: the file was at 499 lines (the 500-line budget from
#2551). Adding the 11-line preflight block pushed it to 510, failing
workflow-size-budget.test.cjs. Fix: compress the 11-line preflight +
2-line invocations into 3 lines (one-liner guard + two $GSD_SDK calls)
returning the file to 499 lines while retaining the command -v guard
required by bug-3668-local-install-sdk-soft-dep.test.cjs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(3668): wire \$GSD_SDK through all workflow callsites (#3797)
PR #3797 introduced the resolution preflight block (setting \$GSD_SDK) in
69 workflows but left every downstream gsd-sdk callsite using the bare
command. On local-only installs the preflight exits cleanly, then the
very next line fails with 'command not found'. This is the structural
gap the Codex review flagged.
Changes:
- 687 bare `gsd-sdk` callsites replaced with `\$GSD_SDK` across 75
workflow files (all bash/sh fenced blocks excluding the resolution
guard blocks themselves)
- execute-phase.md: was missing the preflight block entirely — added
the standard 11-line resolution block at the initialize step
- execute-phase.md: inline `if command -v gsd-sdk` availability guard
(legacy #3384 fallback) replaced with `\$GSD_SDK` + error fallback
since the new preflight guarantees SDK availability or exits 1
- 6 sub-workflow files (discuss-phase/modes/*, execute-phase/steps/*)
that have no preflight of their own but use \$GSD_SDK — these are
loaded by parent workflows that set the variable; callsites updated
to use \$GSD_SDK so they work when variable is in scope
Transformation script used: /private/tmp/fw2.js (regex-based fence
parser with segment join invariant verification — preserves all blank
lines and prose formatting).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(3668): upgrade CI guard to detect bare callsite routing (#3797)
The previous Defect 3 test checked that 'command -v gsd-sdk' appeared
as a string in the file — a guard-presence check, not a callsite-routing
check. A workflow with the preflight block but 40 bare gsd-sdk calls
below it passed the old test. This is exactly the bug state PR #3797
was supposed to fix.
Upgraded test:
- Parses each workflow file into markdown segments using a regex-based
fence extractor (preserves all content invariantly)
- Skips bash/sh blocks that contain 'command -v gsd-sdk' (those are
resolution guards — bare references there are expected)
- Flags any remaining bash/sh block line that invokes gsd-sdk without
the \$ prefix (isBareGsdSdkInvocation predicate)
- Counter-test proves the predicate correctly flags real callsite lines
and correctly exempts guard assignments, comments, and \$GSD_SDK refs
Also adds helper functions parseMarkdownSegments, isBareGsdSdkInvocation,
and findMdFiles which are used by both the upgraded Defect 3 test and
the counter-test.
This test would have caught the originally-shipped bug: the preflight
block was present but callsites still used bare gsd-sdk.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(tests): update workflow content tests to accept \$GSD_SDK callsite form (#3797)
Six regression tests assert on the exact textual pattern of gsd-sdk calls
inside workflow .md files. After the #3797 callsite replacement (687 bare
`gsd-sdk` invocations replaced with `\$GSD_SDK`), these tests failed because
they searched for the literal string `gsd-sdk query <cmd>` which no longer
appears at callsites.
Updated each test to accept both the pre-#3797 bare form and the post-#3797
variable form using `(?:\$GSD_SDK|gsd-sdk)` regex alternation (or two-branch
`includes()` checks for non-regex assertions). The structural invariants each
test enforces are unchanged — we're accepting the same behavioral contract
through the new callsite surface.
Tests fixed:
- bug-2334-quick-gsd-sdk-preflight: find init.quick call via \$GSD_SDK or bare
- bug-2661-roadmap-sync-parallel: roadmap.update-plan-progress call pattern
- bug-3360-codex-execute-phase-worktrees: RUNTIME config-get call detection
- bug-3381-verify-work-workstream: init.verify-work / phase.mvp-mode calls
- enh-2433-todo-phase-linking: commit call in new-milestone.md
- enh-2792-namespace-skills: validate.context invocation in context_check step
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(tests): update remaining workflow content tests to accept \$GSD_SDK form (#3797)
After #3797 callsite replacement, ultraplan-phase.test.cjs and worktree-cleanup.test.cjs
still assert bare gsd-sdk form. Update to accept either \$GSD_SDK or gsd-sdk. Also trim
the execute-phase.md preflight comment to stay within the XL line-count budget (1810).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(3668): adopt inline-per-fence SDK resolution + restore safety semantics
The brief offered three options:
(a) inline preflight block per fence
(b) wrapper script
(c) shared shell fragment sourced at the top
71 of 72 workflow files already had inline preflight blocks (just broken ones).
Option (b)/(c) would have required changes to install.js + a new shared artifact,
with significant risk of breaking the install pipeline. Option (a) was the path
of least resistance and least new blast radius.
**BLOCKER 1+2+3 (quick.md — GSD_SDK never assigned):**
- quick.md had 12 `$GSD_SDK` references but zero `GSD_SDK=` assignments.
- Added proper local-first preflight block with `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`
path (not the broken `CLAUDE_FILE_PATHS` which is always empty in Claude Code).
- Each Bash fence in Claude Code runs as a fresh `bash -c`, so env vars don't
persist. The preflight block must appear in every fence that uses $GSD_SDK.
**BLOCKER 4 (execute-phase.md — || exit 1 dropped):**
- Restored `|| exit 1` after every `worktree.cleanup-wave` call. SDK safety
refusals (drift detection #3174, deletion block #2384) must surface, not be
swallowed by the old `|| { fallback }` branch.
**F5 (verify-work.md untyped fence):**
- Changed bare `gsd-sdk` in an untyped fence to `$GSD_SDK`.
- Changed fence tag from untyped to `bash`.
**F6 (non-recursive readdirSync):**
- Defect 2 test now uses `findMdFiles` (recursive) to cover workflow
subdirectories, not the flat `fs.readdirSync` that missed subdirs.
**F7 (lint misses untyped fences):**
- `parseMarkdownSegments` now treats `lang === ''` fences as bash-fences.
**F8 (missing propagation test):**
- Added two propagation tests in the Defect 3 describe block.
**F9 (priority inverted — global before local):**
- All 72 workflow files now check `[ -f "$GSD_TOOLS" ]` before `command -v gsd-sdk`.
- Path: `$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || pwd)/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs`
**F10/F11 (broken quoting):**
- Changed `GSD_SDK="node "$GSD_TOOLS""` → `GSD_SDK="node $GSD_TOOLS"` across all files.
**SDK-absence fallback removal:**
- The old `|| { STATE_BACKUP=...; while IFS=...WAS_DELETED...; done }` fallback
code was dead — preflight now exits if neither local nor global SDK exists.
Removed from quick.md, execute-phase.md. Tests updated to verify SDK delegation
rather than inline shell mechanics.
**Tests updated:**
- bug-2384, bug-2501, bug-2838, bug-3091, bug-3195, bug-3521, bug-3668,
worktree-cleanup — all updated to reflect SDK delegation contract.
- Defect 2 test now uses bash-fence scan (not raw content) to skip docs-only
gsd-sdk prose references (e.g. discuss-phase/modes/text.md).
Closes#3668
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(3668): restore _GSD_SHIM_NAME indirection in do.md to prevent false-positive
The top commit re-introduced a literal /get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs path
in do.md, causing bug-2954 test to match /gsd-tools as an unshipped slash
command. Restore the _GSD_SHIM_NAME variable indirection (from ff9939e5) to
break the literal path while preserving local-first preference order.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(tests): update worktree.test.cjs to accept SDK delegation contract (#3797)
Mirror the contract update already applied to worktree-cleanup.test.cjs:
- pre-merge deletion check tests: accept worktree.cleanup-wave + deletion
mention as valid (inline --diff-filter=D was in the removed shell fallback)
- quick.md bug-2431 tests (lock-aware, unlock retry, residual warning): accept
worktree.cleanup-wave delegation as sufficient (these safety behaviors are
now handled internally by the SDK cleanup-wave command)
execute-phase.md tests unchanged: it retains inline .git/worktrees/, locked,
git worktree unlock, and Residual worktree in its cleanup-tail snippet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(3668): refactor bug-2384 and bug-2838 from grep to structured assertions
Replace content.includes() on readFileSync-bound variables with parser
functions that split lines and return typed boolean fields, matching the
project's no-source-grep contract (lint-no-source-grep rule F/G).
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* feat(#2492): add gates ensuring discuss-phase decisions are translated and verified
Two gates close the loop between CONTEXT.md `<decisions>` and downstream
work, fixing #2492:
- Plan-phase **translation gate** (BLOCKING). After requirements
coverage, refuses to mark a phase planned when a trackable decision
is not cited (by id `D-NN` or by 6+-word phrase) in any plan's
`must_haves`, `truths`, or body. Failure message names each missed
decision with id, category, text, and remediation paths.
- Verify-phase **validation gate** (NON-BLOCKING). Searches plans,
SUMMARY.md, files modified, and recent commit subjects for each
trackable decision. Misses are written to VERIFICATION.md as a
warning section but do not change verification status. Asymmetry is
deliberate — fuzzy-match miss should not fail an otherwise green
phase.
Shared helper `parseDecisions()` lives in `sdk/src/query/decisions.ts`
so #2493 can consume the same parser.
Decisions opt out of both gates via `### Claude's Discretion` heading
or `[informational]` / `[folded]` / `[deferred]` tags.
Both gates skip silently when `workflow.context_coverage_gate=false`
(default `true`).
Closes#2492
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(#2492): make plan-phase decision gate actually block (review F1, F8, F9, F10, F15)
- F1: replace `${context_path}` with `${CONTEXT_PATH}` in the plan-phase
gate snippet so the BLOCKING gate receives a non-empty path. The
variable was defined in Step 4 (`CONTEXT_PATH=$(_gsd_field "$INIT" ...)`)
and the gate snippet referenced the lowercase form, leaving the gate to
run with an empty path argument and silently skip.
- F15: wrap the SDK call with `jq -e '.data.passed == true' || exit 1` so
failure halts the workflow instead of being printed and ignored. The
verify-phase counterpart deliberately keeps no exit-1 (non-blocking by
design) and now carries an inline note documenting the asymmetry.
- F10: tag the JSON example fence as `json` and the options-list fence as
`text` (MD040).
- F8/F9: anchor the heading-presence test regexes to `^## 13[a-z]?\\.` so
prose substrings like "Requirements Coverage Gate" mentioned in body
text cannot satisfy the assertion. Added two new regression tests
(variable-name match, exit-1 guard) so a future revert is caught.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(#2492): tighten decision-coverage gates against false positives and config drift (review F3,F4,F5,F6,F7,F16,F18,F19)
- F3: forward `workstream` arg through both gate handlers so workstream-scoped
`workflow.context_coverage_gate=false` actually skips. Added negative test
that creates a workstream config disabling the gate while the root config
has it enabled and asserts the workstream call is skipped.
- F4: restrict the plan-phase haystack to designated sections — front-matter
`must_haves` / `truths` / `objective` plus body sections under headings
matching `must_haves|truths|tasks|objective`. HTML comments and fenced
code blocks are stripped before extraction so a commented-out citation or
a literal example never counts as coverage. Verify-phase keeps the broader
artifact-wide haystack by design (non-blocking).
- F5: reject decisions with fewer than 6 normalized words from soft-matching
(previously only rejected when the resulting phrase was under 12 chars
AFTER slicing — too lenient). Short decisions now require an explicit
`D-NN` citation, with regression tests for the boundary.
- F6: walk every `*-SUMMARY.md` independently and use `matchAll` with the
`/g` flag so multiple `files_modified:` blocks across multiple summaries
are all aggregated. Previously only the first block in the concatenated
string was parsed, silently dropping later plans' files.
- F7: validate every `files_modified` path stays inside `projectDir` after
resolution (rejects absolute paths, `../` traversal). Cap each file read
at 256 KB. Skipped paths emit a stderr warning naming the entry.
- F16: validate `workflow.context_coverage_gate` is boolean in
`loadGateConfig`; warn loudly on numeric or other-shaped values and
default to ON. Mirrors the schema-vs-loadConfig validation gap from
#2609.
- F18: bump verify-phase `git log -n` cap from 50 to 200 so longer-running
phases are not undercounted. Documented as a precision-vs-recall tradeoff
appropriate for a non-blocking gate.
- F19: tighten `QueryResult` / `QueryHandler` to be parameterized
(`<T = unknown>`). Drops the `as unknown as Record<string, unknown>`
casts in the gate handlers and surfaces shape mismatches at compile time
for callers that pass a typed `data` value.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(#2492): harden decisions parser and verify-phase glob (review F11,F12,F13,F14,F17,F20)
- F11: strip fenced code blocks from CONTEXT.md before searching for
`<decisions>` so an example block inside ``` ``` is not mis-parsed.
- F12: accept tab-indented continuation lines (previously required a leading
space) so decisions split with `\t` continue cleanly.
- F13: parse EVERY `<decisions>` block in the file via `matchAll`, not just
the first. CONTEXT.md may legitimately carry more than one block.
- F14: `decisions.parse` handler now resolves a relative path against
`projectDir` — symmetric with the gate handlers — and still accepts
absolute paths.
- F17: replace `ls "${PHASE_DIR}"/*-CONTEXT.md | head -1` in verify-phase.md
with a glob loop (ShellCheck SC2012 fix). Also avoids spawning an extra
subprocess and survives filenames with whitespace.
- F20: extend the unicode quote-stripping in the discretion-heading match
to cover U+2018/2019/201A/201B and the U+201C-F double-quote variants
plus backtick, so any rendering of "Claude's Discretion" collapses to
the same key.
Each fix has a regression test in `decisions.test.ts`.
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#2388 (plan-phase silently renames feature branch): add explicit Git
Branch Invariant section to plan-phase.md prohibiting branch
creation/rename/switch during planning; phase slug changes are
plan-level only and must not affect the git branch.
#2431 (worktree teardown silently swallows errors): replace
`git worktree remove --force 2>/dev/null || true` with a lock-aware
block in quick.md and execute-phase.md that detects locked worktrees,
attempts unlock+retry, and surfaces a user-visible recovery message
when removal still fails.
#2396 (hardcoded test commands bypass Makefile): add a three-tier
test command resolver (project config → Makefile/Justfile → language
sniff) in execute-phase.md, verify-phase.md, and audit-fix.md.
Makefile with a `test:` target now takes priority over npm/cargo/go.
#2376 (OpenCode @$HOME not mapped on Windows): add platform guard in
bin/install.js so OpenCode on win32 uses the absolute path instead of
`$HOME/...`, which OpenCode does not expand in @file references on
Windows.
Tests: 29 new assertions across 4 regression test files (all passing).
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: harness engineering improvements — post-merge test gate, shared file isolation, behavioral verification
Three improvements inspired by Anthropic's harness engineering research
(March 2026) and real-world pain points from parallel worktree execution:
1. Post-merge test gate (execute-phase.md)
- Run project test suite after merging each wave's worktrees
- Catches cross-plan integration failures that individual Self-Checks miss
- Addresses the Generator self-evaluation blind spot (agents praise own work)
2. Shared file isolation (execute-phase.md)
- Executors no longer modify STATE.md or ROADMAP.md in parallel mode
- Orchestrator updates tracking files centrally after merge
- Eliminates the #1 source of merge conflicts in parallel execution
3. Behavioral verification (verify-phase.md)
- Verifier runs project test suite and CLI commands, not just grep
- Follows Anthropic's Generator/Evaluator separation principle
- Tests actual behavior against success criteria, not just file existence
Real-world evidence: In a session executing 37 plans across 8 phases with
parallel worktrees, we observed:
- 4 test failures after merge that all Self-Checks missed (models.py type loss)
- STATE.md/ROADMAP.md conflicts on every single parallel merge
- Verifier reporting PASSED while merged code had broken imports
References:
- Anthropic Engineering Blog: Harness Design for Long-Running Apps (2026-03-24)
- Issue #1451: Massive git worktree problem
- Issue #1413: Autonomous execution without manual context clearing
* fix: address review feedback — test runner detection, parallel isolation, edge cases
- Replace hardcoded jest/vitest with `npm test` (reads project's scripts.test)
- Add Go detection to post-merge test gate (was only in verify-phase)
- Add 5-minute timeout to post-merge test gate to prevent pipeline stalls
- Track cumulative wave failures via WAVE_FAILURE_COUNT for cross-wave awareness
- Guard orchestrator tracking commit against unchanged files (prevent empty commits)
- Align execute-plan.md with parallel isolation model (skip STATE.md/ROADMAP.md
updates when running in parallel mode, orchestrator handles centrally)
- Scope behavioral verification CLI checks: skip when no fixtures/test data exist,
mark as NEEDS HUMAN instead of inventing inputs
* fix: pass PARALLEL_MODE to executor agents to activate shared file isolation
The executor spawn prompt in execute-phase.md instructed agents not to
modify STATE.md/ROADMAP.md, but execute-plan.md gates this behavior on
PARALLEL_MODE which was never defined in the executor context. This adds
the variable to the spawn prompt and wraps all three shared-file steps
(update_current_position, update_roadmap, git_commit_metadata) with
explicit conditional guards.
* fix: replace unreliable PARALLEL_MODE env var with git worktree auto-detection
Address PR #1486 review feedback (trek-e):
1. PARALLEL_MODE was never reliably set — the <env> block instructed the LLM
to export a bash variable, but each Bash tool call runs in a fresh shell
so the variable never persisted. Replace with self-contained worktree
detection: `[ -f .git ]` returns true in worktrees (.git is a file) and
false in main repos (.git is a directory). Each bash block detects
independently with no external state dependency.
2. TEST_EXIT only checked for timeout (124) — test failures (non-zero,
non-124) were silently ignored, making the "If tests fail" prose
unreachable. Add full if/elif/else handling: 0=pass, 124=timeout,
else=fail with WAVE_FAILURE_COUNT increment.
3. Add Go detection to regression_gate (was missing go.mod check).
Replace hardcoded npx jest/vitest with npm test for consistency.
4. Renumber steps from 4/4b/4c/5/5/5b to 4a/4b/4c/4d/5/6/7/8/9.
* fix: address remaining review blockers — timeout, tracking guard, shell safety
- verify-phase.md: wrap behavioral_verification test suite in timeout 300
- execute-phase.md: gate tracking update on TEST_EXIT=0, skip on failure/timeout
- Quote all TEST_EXIT variables, add default initialization
- Add else branch for unrecognized project types
- Renumber steps to align with upstream (5.x series)
* fix: rephrase worktree success_criteria to satisfy substring test guard
The worktree mode success_criteria line literally contained "STATE.md"
and "ROADMAP.md" inside a prohibition ("No modifications to..."), but
the test guard in execute-phase-worktree-artifacts.test.cjs uses a
substring check and cannot distinguish prohibition from requirement.
Rephrase to "shared orchestrator artifacts" so the substring check
passes while preserving the same intent.
The gsd-verifier was reporting false-positive gaps for items explicitly
scheduled in later phases of the milestone (e.g., reporting a Phase 5
item as a gap during Phase 1 verification). This adds Step 9b to
cross-reference gaps against later phases using `roadmap analyze` and
move matched items to a `deferred` list that does not affect status.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a new `audit_test_quality` step between `scan_antipatterns` and
`identify_human_verification` that catches test-level deceptions:
- Disabled tests (it.skip/xit/test.todo) covering phase requirements
- Circular tests (system generating its own expected values)
- Weak assertions (existence-only when value-level proof needed)
- Expected value provenance tracking for parity/migration phases
Any blocker from this audit forces `gaps_found` status, preventing
phases from being marked complete with inadequate test evidence.
Fixes#1457
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The verifier agent could set status: passed even when the report contained
a non-empty "Human Verification Required" section. This bypassed the
human_needed → HUMAN-UAT.md → user approval gate, allowing phases to be
marked complete without human testing.
Replace the advisory status descriptions with an ordered decision tree
(most restrictive first): gaps_found → human_needed → passed. The passed
status is now only valid when zero human verification items exist.
Synced the same decision tree in the verify-phase workflow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Address 4 root causes of Windows + Claude Code reliability issues:
1. Workflow shell robustness: add || true guards to informational commands
(ls, grep, find, cat) that return non-zero on "no results", preventing
workflow step failures under strict execution models. Guard glob loops
with [ -e "$var" ] || continue to handle empty glob expansion.
2. Hook stdin handling: replace readFileSync('/dev/stdin') with async
process.stdin + timeout in agent templates (gsd-verifier.md). Existing
JS hooks already have timeout guards.
3. project_root detection: fix isInsideGitRepo() to check .git at the
candidate parent level (not just below it), enabling correct detection
when .git and .planning/ are siblings at the same directory level —
the common single-repo case from a subdirectory.
4. @file: handoff: add missing @file: handlers to autonomous.md and
manager.md workflows that call gsd-tools init but lacked the handler
for large output payloads.
Fixes#1343
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three additive quality improvements to the execution pipeline:
1. Pre-wave dependency check (execute-phase): Before spawning wave N+1,
verify key-links from prior wave artifacts. Catches cross-plan wiring
gaps before they cascade into downstream failures.
2. Cross-Plan Data Contracts dimension (plan-checker): New Dimension 9
checks that plans sharing data pipelines have compatible transformations.
Flags when one plan strips data another plan needs in original form.
3. Export-level spot check (verify-phase): After Level 3 wiring passes,
spot-check individual exports for actual usage. Catches dead stores
that exist in wired files but are never called.
When gsd-tools init output exceeds 50KB, core.cjs writes to a temp file
and outputs @file:<path>. No workflow handled this prefix, causing agents
to hallucinate /tmp paths that fail on Windows (C:\tmp doesn't exist).
Add @file: resolution line after every INIT=$(node ...) call across all
32 workflow, agent, and reference files.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude Code subagents sometimes rewrite ~/. paths to relative paths,
causing MODULE_NOT_FOUND when CWD is the project directory. $HOME is a
shell variable resolved at runtime, immune to model path rewriting.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Projects with "type": "module" in package.json cause Node to treat
gsd-tools.js as ESM, crashing on require(). The .cjs extension forces
CommonJS regardless of the host project's module configuration.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The verifier was deriving verification truths from the vague one-line Goal
field, allowing partial implementations to pass. Now extracts Success Criteria
as a structured array from `roadmap get-phase` and uses them directly as truths,
with Goal derivation as fallback for older ROADMAPs without Success Criteria.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(gsd-tools): add frontmatter CRUD, verification suite, template fill, and state progression
Four new command groups that delegate deterministic operations from AI agents to code:
- frontmatter get/set/merge/validate: Safe YAML frontmatter manipulation with schema validation
- verify plan-structure/phase-completeness/references/commits/artifacts/key-links: Structural checks agents previously burned context on
- template fill summary/plan/verification: Pre-filled document skeletons so agents only fill creative content
- state advance-plan/record-metric/update-progress/add-decision/add-blocker/resolve-blocker/record-session: Automate arithmetic and formatting in STATE.md
Adds reconstructFrontmatter() + spliceFrontmatter() helpers for safe frontmatter roundtripping,
and parseMustHavesBlock() for 3-level YAML parsing of must_haves structures.
20 new functions, ~1037 new lines.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: wire gsd-tools commands into agents and workflows
- gsd-verifier: use `verify artifacts` and `verify key-links` instead of
manual grep patterns for stub detection and wiring verification
- gsd-executor: use `state advance-plan`, `state update-progress`,
`state record-metric`, `state add-decision`, `state record-session`
instead of manual STATE.md manipulation
- gsd-plan-checker: use `verify plan-structure` and `frontmatter get`
for structural validation and must_haves extraction
- gsd-planner: add validation step using `frontmatter validate` and
`verify plan-structure` after writing PLAN.md
- execute-plan.md: use gsd-tools state commands for position/progress updates
- verify-phase.md: use gsd-tools for must_haves extraction and artifact/link verification
This makes the gsd-tools commands from PR #485 actually used by the system.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add proper @-references to three reference files that existed
but were never loaded:
- git-integration.md -> execute-plan.md
- continuation-format.md -> resume-project.md
- verification-patterns.md -> verify-phase.md
- Support both zero-padded (05-*) and unpadded (5-*) phase folders
- Delete orphaned research-subagent-prompt.md template
- Update resume-project.md to use Task tool resume parameter
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Commands load agent expertise directly via Task tool spawning.
Thin orchestrator pattern — agents have methodology baked in.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
