The gsd-phase-researcher and gsd-project-researcher agents instructed
WebSearch queries to always include 'current year' (e.g., 2024). As
time passes, a hardcoded year biases search results toward stale
dated content — users saw 2024-tagged queries producing stale blog
references in 2026.
Remove the year-injection guidance. Instead, rely on checking
publication dates on the returned sources. Query templates and
success criteria updated accordingly.
Closes#2559
Closes#1885
The upstream bug anthropics/claude-code#13898 causes Claude Code to strip all
inherited MCP tools from agents that declare a `tools:` frontmatter restriction,
making `mcp__context7__*` declarations in agent frontmatter completely inert.
Implements Fix 2 from issue #1885 (trek-e's chosen approach): replace the
`<mcp_tool_usage>` block in gsd-executor and gsd-planner with a
`<documentation_lookup>` block that checks for MCP availability first, then
falls back to the Context7 CLI via Bash (`npx --yes ctx7@latest`). Adds the
same `<documentation_lookup>` block to the six researcher agents that declare
MCP tools but lacked any fallback instruction.
Agents fixed (8 total):
- gsd-executor (had <mcp_tool_usage>, now <documentation_lookup> with CLI fallback)
- gsd-planner (had <mcp_tool_usage>, now compact <documentation_lookup>; stays under 45K limit)
- gsd-phase-researcher (new <documentation_lookup> block)
- gsd-project-researcher (new <documentation_lookup> block)
- gsd-ui-researcher (new <documentation_lookup> block)
- gsd-advisor-researcher (new <documentation_lookup> block)
- gsd-ai-researcher (new <documentation_lookup> block)
- gsd-domain-researcher (new <documentation_lookup> block)
When the upstream Claude Code bug is fixed, the MCP path in step 1 of the block
will become active automatically — no agent changes needed.
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: replace /gsd: command format with /gsd- skill format in all suggestions
All next-step suggestions shown to users were still using the old colon
format (/gsd:xxx) which cannot be copy-pasted as skills. Migrated all
occurrences across agents/, commands/, get-shit-done/, docs/, README files,
bin/install.js (hardcoded defaults for claude runtime), and
get-shit-done/bin/lib/*.cjs (generate-claude-md templates and error messages).
Updated tests to assert new hyphen format instead of old colon format.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: migrate remaining /gsd: format to /gsd- in hooks, workflows, and sdk
Addresses remaining user-facing occurrences missed in the initial migration:
- hooks/: fix 4 user-facing messages (pause-work, update, fast, quick)
and 2 comments in gsd-workflow-guard.js
- get-shit-done/workflows/: fix 21 Skill() literal calls that Claude
executes directly (installer does not transform workflow content)
- sdk/prompt-sanitizer.ts: update regex to strip /gsd- format in addition
to legacy /gsd: format; update JSDoc comment
- tests/: update autonomous-ui-steps, prompt-sanitizer to assert new format
Note: commands/gsd/*.md frontmatter (name: gsd:xxx) intentionally unchanged
— installer derives skillName from directory path, not the name field.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(plan-phase): preserve --chain flag in auto-advance sync and handle ui-phase gate in chain mode
Bug 1: step 15 sync-flag check only guarded against --auto, causing
_auto_chain_active to be cleared when plan-phase is invoked without
--auto in ARGUMENTS even though a --chain pipeline was active. Added
--chain to the guard condition, matching discuss-phase behaviour.
Bug 2: UI Design Contract gate (step 5.6) always exited the workflow
when UI-SPEC was missing, breaking the discuss --chain pipeline
silently. When _auto_chain_active is true, the gate now auto-invokes
gsd-ui-phase --auto via Skill() and continues to step 6 without
prompting. Manual invocations retain the existing AskUserQuestion flow.
* fix: remove <sub>/clear</sub> pattern and duplicate old-format command in discuss-phase.md
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Integrate Exa (semantic search) and Firecrawl (deep web scraping) as
MCP-based research tools, following the existing Brave Search pattern.
- Add tool declarations to all 3 researcher agents
- Add tool strategy sections with usage guidance and priority
- Add config detection for FIRECRAWL_API_KEY and EXA_API_KEY env vars
- Add firecrawl/exa_search config keys to core defaults and init output
- Update source priority hierarchy across all researchers
* fix: remove dangling skills: from agent frontmatter and strip in Gemini converter (closes#1023, closes#953, closes#930)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: invert skills frontmatter test to assert absence (fixes CI)
The PR deliberately removed skills: from agent frontmatter (breaks
Gemini CLI), but the test still asserted its presence. Inverted the
assertion to ensure skills: stays removed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add skills: field to all 11 agent frontmatter files with forward-compatible
GSD workflow skill references (silently ignored until skill files are created).
Add commented hooks: examples to 9 file-writing agents showing PostToolUse
hook syntax for project-specific linting/formatting. Read-only agents
(plan-checker, integration-checker) skip hooks as they cannot modify files.
Per Claude Code docs: subagents don't inherit skills or hooks from the
parent conversation — they must be explicitly listed in frontmatter.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add 'never use heredoc' instruction to 6 agents that were missing it:
gsd-codebase-mapper, gsd-debugger, gsd-phase-researcher,
gsd-project-researcher, gsd-research-synthesizer, gsd-roadmapper.
All 9 file-writing agents now consistently prevent settings.local.json
corruption from heredoc permission entries (GSD #526).
Read-only agents (plan-checker, integration-checker) excluded as they
cannot write 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>
- Add `websearch` command to gsd-tools.js for Brave API
- Detect BRAVE_API_KEY env var or ~/.gsd/brave_api_key file
- Persist brave_search setting to config.json on project init
- Update researcher agents to check config before calling
Graceful degradation: if brave_search is false, agents use
built-in WebSearch without wasted Bash calls.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reverts af7a057 "feat: add GSD Memory cross-project knowledge system"
The memory system needs more work before shipping:
- Workflow integration is incomplete (writes but doesn't query)
- UX requires too much manual intervention
- Setup friction exceeds value for most users
Preserved on branch `memory-wip` for continued development.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implements MCP server for semantic search across GSD projects:
MCP Tools:
- gsd_memory_search: Search across all registered projects
- gsd_memory_decisions: Find decisions from SUMMARY/PROJECT.md
- gsd_memory_patterns: Find patterns from SUMMARY.md
- gsd_memory_pitfalls: Find pitfalls from RESEARCH.md
- gsd_memory_stack: Find tech stack entries
- gsd_memory_register: Register project with memory
- gsd_memory_index: Trigger indexing/update
- gsd_memory_status: Show system status
Architecture:
- QMD wrapper with grep fallback when QMD unavailable
- YAML frontmatter extractors for GSD document types
- Project registry at ~/.gsd/projects.json
- Auto-install via bin/install.js for Claude Code
Workflow integrations:
- new-project: Registers project with memory
- plan-phase: Indexes after planning
- execute-phase: Indexes after execution
- complete-milestone: Indexes milestone completion
- Researcher agents query memory before Context7
Tests: 117 passing (66 unit + 51 integration)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Researcher agents were using literal "2025" in query template examples,
causing Claude to copy them verbatim instead of using the actual current
year. Changed to [current year] placeholder with explicit instruction to
check today's date.
Fixes#164
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Researchers are always spawned in parallel (4 at once). Committing is
now exclusively handled by the orchestrator or synthesizer agent after
all researchers complete.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Researchers now skip commit step when spawned in parallel.
Synthesizer agent commits STACK.md, FEATURES.md, ARCHITECTURE.md,
PITFALLS.md, and SUMMARY.md in one atomic commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Split gsd-researcher into two specialized agents:
- gsd-phase-researcher: tailored for phase research before planning
- gsd-project-researcher: tailored for ecosystem research before roadmap
Updated /gsd:plan-phase to auto-research before planning:
- Research runs if no RESEARCH.md exists (silent use if exists)
- --research flag forces re-research
- --skip-research flag bypasses research entirely
- Researchers commit their output
This enables single-command workflow: /gsd:plan-phase does
research → plan → verify in one orchestrated flow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
