The autonomous workflow previously had two extremes: full auto-answer
mode (--auto discuss, lean context but no user input) or manager mode
(interactive but bloated context from accumulating everything inline).
The --interactive flag bridges this gap:
- Discuss runs inline via gsd:discuss-phase (asks questions, waits for
user answers — preserving all design decisions)
- Plan and execute dispatch as background agents (fresh context per
phase — no accumulation in the main session)
- Pipeline parallelism: discuss Phase N+1 while Phase N builds in the
background
This keeps the main context lean (only discuss conversations accumulate)
while preserving user input on all decisions. Particularly helpful for
users hitting context limits with /gsd:manager on multi-phase milestones.
Usage:
/gsd:autonomous --interactive
/gsd:autonomous --interactive --from 3
/gsd:autonomous --interactive --only 5
Also adds --only N flag parsing to the upstream workflow (previously only
in PR #1444's branch).
Closes#1413
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
