104fc76f70
Self-found by re-deriving the guard-shape census against bin/install.js's own
write sites, not by a review finding. Three artifacts a global install writes
into a live config ROOT were watched by nothing:
hooks/gsd-check-update.js, hooks/gsd-context-monitor.js,
hooks/gsd-update-banner.js -- `hooks` was absent from GSD_PREFIXED_PARENTS
.gsd-source, .gsd-profile -- absent from GSD_OWNED_ENTRIES, and an
exact-name list does not match a dot-prefixed
name via the `gsd-` prefix rule
This is the SAME shape as the leak that motivated the prefixed-parent scan in
round 1 -- a gsd-prefixed child under a parent nobody had listed -- one parent
over. That it recurred is the argument for re-deriving this list from the
installer each round instead of trusting it: the enumeration is the weak point
of an enumerate-and-block mechanism, and it does not announce when it falls
behind.
Ownership is unchanged, only coverage: `hooks/` is shared with the host agent,
so only `gsd-`-prefixed children are watched. A test asserts a host-owned
hook is still ignored, because widening the parent list must not widen
ownership -- a guard that flags the host's own files gets switched off, and
then catches nothing at all.
Reverting the widening fails the new test.
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.