Dave 0a7d41c3f0 docs(#1820): add ADR-1820 for the spec-section module seam, fallback toggle, and SPEC↔probe precedence contract
Documents the new architectural surface #1820 introduces, per the
contributor-standards ADR requirement (a new Module seam that other code
will depend on):

- The spec-section detection Module seam (src/spec-section.cts) and its
  locked exported surface, supply rule, suffix-tolerant header invariant,
  and ownership boundary (detection only).
- The workflow.specless_probe_fallback toggle as a policy decision
  (default-on, disableable cost-gate over the fallback INVOCATION path, not
  the verifier<->predicate contract) — records the maintainer 857:66 ruling
  rather than amending it.
- The SPEC-supplied <-> probe-derived precedence & authoring contract:
  section-level precedence (a SPEC-supplied section is never re-run), one
  projectProhibitions serializer (no second producer), descriptor-less
  fallback predicates flag/abstain (never green, never auto-dismissed),
  no-silent-drop equality.

Does not restate ADR-857/550/1606; cross-references them. Resolves the
sole remaining review blocker on #1835.

Refs #1820

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017vYn26e3nkDNxcpty1ciPJ
2026-07-06 14:40:38 -04:00

GSD Core

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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.

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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:

  1. Discuss — capture implementation decisions before anything is planned
  2. Plan — research, decompose, and verify the plan fits a fresh context window
  3. Execute — run plans in parallel waves; each executor starts with a clean 200k-token context
  4. Verify — walk through what was built; diagnose and fix before declaring done
  5. 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 your first project:

/gsd-new-project

New here? Follow Your first project for a guided walkthrough from install to first shipped phase.


Documentation

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
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License

MIT License. See LICENSE for details.


Claude Code is powerful. GSD Core makes it reliable.

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