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* fix(#4623): keep repo-wide planning docs out of the verification digest, and accept --files on verification.fingerprint Two defects in the covered-input fingerprint (#4155), one issue. 1. `computeCoveredDigest` hashed the whole bytes of every declared path uniformly, so `.planning/ROADMAP.md` and `.planning/REQUIREMENTS.md` — which every phase rewrites as ordinary bookkeeping, and which the closing phase's own `phase.complete` / `requirements mark-complete` rewrite AFTER the verifier ran — flipped every phase that declared them to `stale` on zero implementation change, and from there `isPhaseComplete` → `init.manager` → `complete-milestone`'s `ALL_PHASES_VERIFIED` gate. Fingerprint v2 leaves any direct child of a planning root out of the hash: `.planning/` itself, plus the phase's own planning root (the parent of its `phases/`, so `planningDir`'s `<project>/` and `workstreams/<ws>/` layouts are covered without the digest knowing what a workstream is — `sharedPlanningRoots` / `isSharedPlanningDoc`, defined by position rather than a name list so the set cannot drift; a root is accepted only when the phase dir sits under a `phases/` directory inside `.planning/`). Such a path is still validated exactly as every other covered path (confined, present, a regular file — the fail-closed contract is unchanged); only its bytes are ignored, and a declaration made only of shared documents fails closed like an empty one. A stored digest names its version, and `readVerificationStatus` now recomputes under THAT version (`parseFingerprintVersion`, `KNOWN_FINGERPRINT_VERSIONS`): a legacy v1 report keeps v1 semantics until it is re-fingerprinted, so the upgrade alone stales nothing; a version this build cannot recompute fails closed. 2. `verification.fingerprint` received a raw positional slice, so `--files a`, `--files "a,b"` and `--files a --files b` all put the literal token into the covered set and failed closed as "a covered file is missing, unreadable, or escapes the project root" — the message that convinced the reporting project the digest was permanently unrecomputable. `parseFingerprintFileArgs` accepts every form (plus `--files=a,b`, freely mixed with bare positionals), treats any other `--flag` and an empty `--files` value as usage errors that say so, and the phase-dir argument must now be an existing directory: omitting it used to take the first covered file as the phase dir and print a plausible digest over the rest at exit 0. Regression tests (tests/verification-status.test.cjs, #4623 block): the cross-phase case from the report, the same-phase `requirements mark-complete` / `phase.complete` cases from the thread, a workstream-scoped root, v1-preserved / unknown-version-stale, the fail-closed cases (missing, directory, escaping symlink, all-shared), every `--files` form against the bare form, the unknown-flag / empty-value / omitted-phase-dir errors, and AC5's zero-file error. Verified failing against the pre-fix source: 29 of 34 fail, the 7 that pass pin behaviour the fix must leave unchanged. Docs: CONTEXT.md Verification Module, agents/gsd-verifier.md's covered_files instruction (rewritten in place — the file sits 21 bytes under its LARGE hard cap), gsd-core/templates/verification-report.md. Fixes #4623 Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: gsd-verifier.md — the #4155 covered_files instruction now states that planning-root docs are digest-inert (#4623); +18 bytes, under the LARGE cap Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DCMY8P8s6dp4g3Rxu3nNAi * chore(#4623): set changeset fragment pr to 4749 --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
GSD Core
Git. Ship. Done.
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A light-weight meta-prompting, context engineering, and spec-driven development system for Claude Code, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, Kimi CLI, Kilo, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, and more.
What is GSD Core
GSD Core is a context-engineering and spec-driven development framework that drives AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity CLI, Kimi CLI, Copilot, Cursor, and more) through a disciplined phase loop. It solves context rot — the quality degradation that accumulates as an AI fills its context window — by running all heavy research, planning, and execution work in fresh-context subagents while keeping your main session lean.
How it works
Each milestone repeats the same five-step loop, one phase at a time:
- Discuss — capture implementation decisions before anything is planned
- Plan — research, decompose, and verify the plan fits a fresh context window
- Execute — run plans in parallel waves; each executor starts with a clean 200k-token context
- Verify — walk through what was built; diagnose and fix before declaring done
- Ship — create the PR, archive the phase, repeat for the next one
Quickstart
npx @opengsd/gsd-core@latest
The installer prompts for your runtime (Claude Code, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, Kimi CLI, Kilo, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, and more) and whether to install globally or locally. The installer is required for cross-runtime compatibility — do not copy files from agents/ or commands/ directly.
On another runtime or without Node.js? See Install on your runtime.
Once installed, start a new project or onboard an existing repo:
/gsd-new-project # greenfield project
/gsd-onboard # existing codebase
New here? Follow Your first project for a guided walkthrough from install to first shipped phase, or Onboarding an existing codebase for brownfield setup.
Documentation
What's new in 1.7.0 → docs/whats-new-1.7.0.md
Tutorials — learning by doing:
How-to guides — task-focused recipes:
Reference — authoritative facts:
Explanation — concepts and design decisions:
Full index: docs/README.md. Other languages: 日本語 · 한국어 · Português · 简体中文.
Why it works
Most AI-coding setups fail at scale because context bloat silently degrades output quality, there is no shared memory between sessions, and nothing verifies that code actually works. GSD Core solves all three: heavy work runs in fresh subagents, structured artifacts like STATE.md and CONTEXT.md survive session boundaries, and the verify step walks through what was built and generates fix plans before a phase is declared done. See docs/explanation/context-engineering.md for the full reasoning.
Troubleshooting? See docs/how-to/recover-and-troubleshoot.md.
Community
| Project | Platform |
|---|---|
| gsd-opencode | Original OpenCode port |
| Discord | Community support |
Star History
License
MIT License. See LICENSE for details.
Claude Code is powerful. GSD Core makes it reliable.