Spike workflow:
- Add frontier mode (no-arg or "frontier" proposes integration + frontier spikes)
- Add depth-over-speed principle — follow surprising findings, test edge cases,
document investigation trail not just verdict
- Add CONVENTIONS.md awareness — follow established patterns, update after session
- Add Requirements section in MANIFEST — track design decisions as they emerge
- Add re-ground step before each spike to prevent drift in long sessions
- Add Investigation Trail section to README template
- Restructured prior context loading with priority ordering
- Research step now runs per-spike with briefing and approach comparison table
Sketch workflow:
- Add frontier mode (no-arg or "frontier" proposes consistency + frontier sketches)
- Add spike context loading — ground mockups in real data shapes, requirements,
and conventions from spike findings
Spike wrap-up workflow:
- Add CONVENTIONS.md generation step (recurring stack/structure/pattern choices)
- Reference files now use implementation blueprint format (Requirements, How to
Build It, What to Avoid, Constraints)
- SKILL.md now includes requirements section from MANIFEST
- Next-steps route to /gsd-spike frontier mode instead of inline analysis
Sketch wrap-up workflow:
- Next-steps route to /gsd-sketch frontier mode
Commands updated with frontier mode in descriptions and argument hints.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
First-class GSD commands for rapid feasibility spiking and UI design sketching,
ported from personal skills into the framework with full GSD integration:
- Spikes save to .planning/spikes/, sketches to .planning/sketches/
- GSD banners, checkpoint boxes, Next Up blocks, gsd-sdk query commits
- --quick flag skips intake/decomposition for both commands
- Wrap-up commands package findings into project-local .claude/skills/
and write WRAP-UP-SUMMARY.md to .planning/ for project history
- Neither requires /gsd-new-project — auto-creates .planning/ subdirs
Pipeline integration:
- new-project.md detects prior spike/sketch work on init
- discuss-phase.md loads spike/sketch findings into prior context
- plan-phase.md includes findings in planner <files_to_read>
- do.md routes spike/sketch intent to new commands
- explore.md offers spike/sketch as output routes
- next.md surfaces pending spike/sketch work as notices
- pause-work.md detects active sketch context for handoff
- help.md documents all 4 commands with usage examples
- artifact-types.md registers spike/sketch artifact taxonomy
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
