---
id: 122
title: Skill Surface Consolidation
group: v1.40.0 Features
---

**Purpose:** Cut the eager skill-listing overhead by folding 31 micro-skills into 4 new grouped parents and 6 existing parents that absorb sub-operations as flags. Zero functional loss — every removed micro-skill's behavior survives via a flag on a consolidated parent. After consolidation, `commands/msd/*.md` ships 60 sub-skills (plus 6 namespace meta-skills, see #123).

**Requirements:**
- REQ-CONSOLIDATE-01: Four new grouped skills replace clusters of micro-skills:
  - `/msd-capture` — folds add-todo (default), note (`--note`), add-backlog (`--backlog`), plant-seed (`--seed`), check-todos (`--list`)
  - `/msd-phase` — folds add-phase (default), insert-phase (`--insert`), remove-phase (`--remove`), edit-phase (`--edit`)
  - `/msd-config` — folds settings-advanced (`--advanced`), settings-integrations (`--integrations`), set-profile (`--profile`)
  - `/msd-workspace` — folds new-workspace (`--new`), list-workspaces (`--list`), remove-workspace (`--remove`)
- REQ-CONSOLIDATE-02: Six existing parents absorb wrap-up / sub-operations as flags: `/msd-update --sync`, `/msd-update --reapply`, `/msd-sketch --wrap-up`, `/msd-spike --wrap-up`, `/msd-map-codebase --fast`, `/msd-map-codebase --query`, `/msd-code-review --fix`, `/msd-progress --do`, `/msd-progress --next`.
- REQ-CONSOLIDATE-03: `/msd-next` is not the retired workflow-advance command; it is reserved for the state-aware smart-entry launcher. Workflow advancement remains under `/msd-progress --next`.
- REQ-CONSOLIDATE-04: Deleted micro-skill slash forms (the bare `msd-add-todo`, `msd-add-backlog`, `msd-plant-seed`, `msd-check-todos`, `msd-add-phase`, `msd-insert-phase`, `msd-remove-phase`, `msd-edit-phase`, `msd-new-workspace`, `msd-list-workspaces`, `msd-remove-workspace`, `msd-settings-advanced`, `msd-settings-integrations`, `msd-set-profile`, `msd-sketch-wrap-up`, `msd-spike-wrap-up`, `msd-reapply-patches`, `msd-code-review-fix`, …) MUST resolve to "Unknown command" — no shadow stubs.
- REQ-CONSOLIDATE-05: `autonomous.md` invokes `/msd-code-review --fix` (was previously calling the deleted `msd-code-review-fix`).

**Reference issue:** [#2790](https://github.com/open-gsd/gsd-core/issues/2790)