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* fix(#4456): forward --ws to every downstream new-milestone.md call new-milestone.md's Step 1 parses --ws <name> into GSD_WS, but each workflow step's bash fence is a separate shell invocation — GSD_WS set in Step 1 never survived to Steps 5, 6, or 7. Four call sites never forwarded it: init.new-milestone (both calls), state.milestone-switch, and both phases.clear branches. Under GSD_WORKSTREAM env or a stored session pointer differing from the explicitly requested --ws, every downstream operation silently operated on the wrong workstream (or root) instead of the one the caller asked for. Confirmed --ws is a universally-parsed CLI flag (gsd-core/bin/gsd-tools.cjs: 4867, resolveActiveWorkstream) — stripped from argv and written into process.env.GSD_WORKSTREAM for the rest of that process, so appending it to ANY gsd_run query call works uniformly. Fixed by persisting GSD_WS to .planning/.gsd-ws-arg right after Step 1 parses it (mirroring the established .gsd-outgoing-milestone round-trip idiom this same file already uses for the identical cross-fence problem), reading it back in each later step, and appending it unquoted (matching the ${GSD_WS} splicing convention documented in workstream-flag.md). Cleaned up after its last use in Step 7. Bundled, in-scope fixes found while implementing the above (per this repo's no-defer policy): - Step 6's phase-archive `git add .planning/milestones/ .planning/phases/` hardcoded literal ROOT paths — both directories are workstream-scoped (matching cmdMilestoneComplete's established #1911 precedent), so under a workstream this staged nothing real. Added phases_dir/archive_dir fields to cmdInitNewMilestone and resolved through them instead. - Step 6's milestone-start commit hardcoded .planning/STATE.md — also workstream-scoped, so it would commit the wrong (or a stale) file under a workstream. Resolved through init.new-milestone's existing state_path field instead; PROJECT.md correctly stays a literal-shaped-but-resolved root path (shared, per the #4455 follow-up already merged). - cmdInitNewMilestone's config_path field: config.json is ALSO a shared file (marked `# Shared` in workstream-flag.md's directory diagram, same as PROJECT.md) but was resolved via the workstream-aware planningDir — fixed alongside cmdInitNewProject's identical instance of the same bug (found via grep, matching the precedent from the #4455 follow-up of fixing every occurrence of an identically-evidenced bug uniformly). Verified: direct CLI invocation confirms phases_dir/archive_dir/state_path resolve into the workstream while project_path/config_path stay root under GSD_WORKSTREAM=alpha. Manual bash-fence execution of every modified fence (Step 1 parse+persist, Step 5 forwarding, both phases.clear branches, the git add fence, Step 7's forward+cleanup, the commit fence) confirms correct behavior in both flat and --ws modes, including two flags composing together (--archive-version + --ws; --reset-phase-numbers + --ws). Rewrote the pre-existing "step 6: commit stages PROJECT.md" test, which asserted the literal (buggy) --files string verbatim — it now asserts the resolved paths via a JSON-returning stub, and gained isolated per-test tmp dirs (the prior version ran with no explicit cwd, at real risk of writing a stray .gsd-ws-arg into this repo's own .planning/ once Step 1's fence started performing a real write). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(#4456): Steps 9/10 also commit workstream-scoped files via literal root paths A fresh isolated code-review pass on the first version of this fix found the identical bug in two more places, missed in the initial sweep: - Step 9's requirements commit (`gsd_run query commit ... --files .planning/REQUIREMENTS.md`) and Step 10's roadmap commit (`--files .planning/ROADMAP.md .planning/STATE.md .planning/REQUIREMENTS.md`) both hardcoded literal ROOT paths for files that are workstream-scoped. - Worse: `.planning/.gsd-ws-arg` was being deleted at the end of Step 7, but Steps 9 and 10 run AFTER Step 7 and still needed to re-read it — the round-trip mechanism this fix builds was already gone before its two remaining consumers ran. Fixed by moving the `.gsd-ws-arg` cleanup to Step 10 (its true last consumer, after the roadmap commit) and adding the same fetch-then-_gsd_field-extract pattern already used in Step 6 to Steps 9 and 10, resolving `requirements_path`/`roadmap_path`/`state_path` through `init.new-milestone $GSD_WS_ARG` instead of literal paths. Also fixed (MEDIUM, same review pass): Step 1's `.gsd-ws-arg` write had no `2>/dev/null || true`, unlike every other round-trip write in this same file — brought into line with the established idiom. Verified: reproduced the pre-fix bug directly (Step 9/10 fences echoing the literal root paths regardless of --ws), confirmed both fences now resolve the workstream-scoped paths correctly, and confirmed the round-trip file survives Step 7 and is only removed after Step 10. Updated the Step 7 test that previously asserted premature cleanup (inverted to assert the file survives); added new coverage for Steps 9 and 10 in both flat and --ws modes. Two remaining LOW/pre-existing findings from the same review pass, deliberately left as-is: `phase_archive_path` (src/init.cts, untouched by this diff) resolves via the same root-only `getLatestCompletedMilestone` this fix's earlier commit already declined to touch, for the same genuine-product-intent-ambiguity reason (workstream-scoped vs project-pooled "latest completed milestone" is not resolvable from the code alone). `.planning/research/` staying root-scoped in the #222 self-heal prose is consistent with the existing (unchanged) `research_dir` field, not a new inconsistency. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(#4456): revert wrong config_path change; fix isolated-cwd test env gsd-test caught two real regressions from this fix's earlier commits: 1. config_path is NOT shared like PROJECT.md. The prior commit's grep-and-replace ("fix six more functions with the identical bug") also touched cmdInitExecutePhase's config_path (a fourth call site beyond the two I'd manually checked) — but tests/init.test.cjs's pre-existing, ADR-0006-governed "init handlers honor GSD_WORKSTREAM" coverage explicitly asserts config_path IS workstream-scoped for execute-phase/plan-phase/phase-op/milestone-op. workstream-flag.md's "# Shared" marking for config.json is stale (the same class of staleness already found for milestones/ during the #4455 follow-up); ADR-0006 plus its real, passing tests is the authoritative source. Reverted config_path to the plain workstream-aware planningDir(cwd) in all four functions it was wrongly changed in. 2. Isolating cwd to a tmpDir (needed once Step 1's fence started performing a real .gsd-ws-arg write) broke the runtime-launcher preamble's own gsd-tools.cjs discovery — no git repo at an isolated tmpDir, no global gsd_run on the CI bench's PATH. Fixed by passing RUNTIME_DIR explicitly in every isolated-cwd test's env, matching the preamble's own documented override precedence. Verified: direct CLI invocation confirms execute-phase's config_path is workstream-scoped again under GSD_WORKSTREAM=wsx; the RUNTIME_DIR fix confirmed against a stripped PATH (no global gsd_run), matching the bench condition that surfaced the original failure. Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: new-milestone.md — #4456 forwards --ws to every downstream gsd_run call across 7 fences (Steps 1/5/6x3/7/9/10), adding a persisted round-trip file plus resolved-path fetches that replace several hardcoded literal paths Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(#4456): backfill changeset PR number and correct final scope pr: 0 -> pr: 4545, and removed the changeset's claim that config.json is a shared file -- that was the change this same PR later reverted after gsd-test caught it contradicting ADR-0006's established, workstream-scoped config_path contract. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(#4456): baseline the 10 new SC2086 findings from --ws forwarding The lint-tests CI job failed with a hard exit 1. Diagnosis (not assumed): the log's two `fatal: ambiguous argument 'origin/next...HEAD'` git errors (lines 244/248) are a red herring — both belong to lint-removed-but-needed.cjs, which prints its own "could not resolve origin/next, skipping" message and exits gracefully, exactly like the already-handled two-dot-form error from lint-fix-has-regression-tests earlier in the same log. Neither contributes to the actual failure. The real cause is lint-workflow-shellcheck: this fix's new fences append $GSD_WS_ARG unquoted to gsd_run calls (deliberately, so it splits into 0 or 2 argv tokens — the same idiom gsd-core/workflows/verify-work.md already uses for ${GSD_WS} and already has baselined). ShellCheck correctly flags each as SC2086, and lint-workflow-shellcheck.cjs's baseline is a deliberate ratchet (#4109) requiring new findings to be explicitly accepted, not auto-passed. new-milestone.md previously had zero baselined SC2086 findings, so all 10 new (correct, intentional) occurrences were reported as new and failed the gate. Added 10 {file, code, message} entries to scripts/lint-workflow-shellcheck-baseline.json for gsd-core/workflows/new-milestone.md's SC2086 findings, matching the established, already-accepted precedent for the identical pattern in verify-work.md. No source or workflow file changed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local> Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.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.