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* fix(#3951): two lint rules that could not reach the code they govern B6 names two widenings. Measuring them first turned up a defect the criterion did not know about, and refuted the reason it gave for one of them. 1. no-adhoc-markdown-parsing self-gates on its own filename. Lines 107-110 short-circuit create() to {} unless the path matches /(?:^|\/)src\/[^/]+\.cts$/. B6 says to widen the files: glob in eslint.config.mjs - but doing only that ships an INERT rule, because the gate still returns {} for every new path. Both halves have to change, and the gate is the load-bearing one. That same regex hides a live hole: [^/]+ is FLAT-ONLY, so it requires the file to sit directly in src/. The registered glob is src/**/*.cts, which includes subdirectories. 28 .cts files - health-diagnostic-rules/ (10), installer-migrations/ (11), observability/ (3), host-integration-adapters/ (2), vendor/ (2) - are inside the registered glob and silently skipped. Measured with the gate neutralized: 0 violations there today. The hole is hiding nothing right now, and is fixed anyway, because "no violations today" is not a property that keeps holding. The fix is not invented: require-subprocess-timeout.cjs:196 already carries the correct form of this guard, /(?:^|\/)src\/.*\.cts$/ with .*, one directory over. Checked the other 21 rules for the same bug - no-adhoc-regex-escape and no-private-binary-resolution short-circuit only to exempt their own seam file, which is the right shape, and no-crlf-fragile-split has no filename gate at all. This bug is unique to the one rule. 2. no-adhoc-regex-escape could not see the shape that actually occurs. Line 396 gated the whole UNSAFE-NEW-REGEXP arm on arg.type === 'Identifier'. Every check below it - the _SOURCE provenance check, the isSoleReturnOfOwnParameter shape - lives inside that branch, so new RegExp(obj['key']) and new RegExp(cfg.pattern) were never examined at all. Runtime data arrives as a property access far more often than as a bare identifier, which is exactly why this rule never fired on the #3477 ReDoS. Widened to MemberExpression, measured by AST walk across all five registered blocks rather than by grep. 27 sites, zero TSAsExpression: 18 safe new RegExp(X.source, flags) -> exempted, keyed strictly on the PROPERTY being `source`, never on the object. Keying on the object would wave through X.anything and buy nothing. B6 estimated ~10; that was an undercount. 3 _SOURCE-suffixed constants reached through a required module namespace (phaseId.BRACKET_PHASE_TOKEN_SOURCE) -> the same provenance-exempt class the rule already recognizes for bare identifiers, extended to reach them. Without this the widening produces 3 false flags. 6 real findings -> marked, each a test extracting a pattern from a shipped file at test time, where the runtime contract IS the product. Deliberately the NARROW MemberExpression form. The rule's own isSoleReturnOfOwnParameter doc comment records that an earlier broad "any non-literal identifier" heuristic produced ~25 false positives and was rejected; a re-run of the census after this change flags exactly the 6 above and nothing else. Verified by execution, not by reading: the gate now accepts src/<subdir>/x.cts, still accepts flat src/x.cts, and still exempts paths outside src/ - each pinned by a test proven to fail against the old regex. build:lib, lint and lint:ci all exit 0. Refs #3951 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(#3951): give no-adhoc-markdown-parsing its reach, and fix the 80 parses it finds The rule self-gates on filename AND is registered on one glob, so widening either half alone is inert. Both move here: the gate now accepts tests/**/*.cjs and scripts/**/*.cjs alongside src/**/*.cts, and eslint.config.mjs registers it on the same two. A test pins that the gate and the registration AGREE, in both directions. The original defect was a gate narrower than its registration; the failure mode of this fix is a gate wider than its registration. Both are silent, so the test asserts the pair rather than either half. 80 violations across 43 files, all in tests/, zero in scripts/. 70 are routed through the existing seams - scanFencedBlocks, collectSection, stripFencedCode, tokenizeHeadings from markdown-sectionizer; splitTableRow, parseMarkdownTable, findTableWithColumns from markdown-table. Headerless STATE.md tables use splitTableRow per line, because parseMarkdownTable needs a real delimiter row. 10 are suppressed, 12.5%, well under the third that would have meant the rule is mis-scoped for tests/ rather than the tests carrying debt. Each names its reason: three regression guards (#3873 / bug-#21) are deliberately independent of the generator's own fence handling, and routing them through the seam would have them test the generator against itself; one is a negative-text probe that extracts nothing; six are a shell-pipe-to-jq detector whose regex coincidentally matches the table fingerprint and is not markdown parsing at all. All ten sit in tests whose subject is .md content, which is normally a reason to prefer the seam. The marker used is allow-adhoc-markdown, distinct from no-source-grep's allow-test-rule, and lint:ci's lint-allow-test-rule-refs reports the same 280/280 unverified count as before - checked rather than assumed, because those two markers are easy to conflate. The widening earned its keep immediately: it found a test that passed for the wrong reason. tests/config-field-docs.test.cjs asserted notEqual(<cell>, '600') against the TYPE column instead of the DEFAULT column. notEqual('number', '600') is true forever, so the guard against workflow.subagent_timeout regressing to the old seconds default could never fire. docs/CONFIGURATION.md:434 is `| workflow.subagent_timeout | number | 300000 | ... |`, so the default is cell index 2; the assertion is now row-scoped through splitTableRow and reads 300000. That is the argument for the widening in one case: the violation was invisible to lint, the suite was green, and the assertion was vacuous. A rule that cannot reach a file cannot tell you the file is lying. Not fixed here, and recorded rather than assumed: #3426/#3239 are NOT reachable by this widening. tests/package-legitimacy-gate.test.cjs yields zero violations even with the gate bypassed - its hand-rolled scans are real, but built from line filters and split('|') rather than the regex-literal fingerprints this rule detects. They need new detectors. The epic assumed a wider glob would catch them. build:lib, lint and lint:ci all exit 0; the post-fix census across tests/** and scripts/** is 0 violations. Refs #3951 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(#3951): B7 — and #3356's defects were still live in the code B7 asks that each closed child be driven fail-first with a behavioral identity test at the CONSUMER's output. Four of eleven children had no test citing their issue number. Auditing them by BEHAVIOR rather than by number-grep changed the answer for three of the four. #3364 and #2540 — traceability only. Both were implemented by #3941 and their consumer-output tests exist and were shown failing-first; neither cited its originating issue, so an audit that greps for the number reports them uncovered. Tagged the specific asserting test in each file, following the citation form those files already use. #3372 — covered, but only at helper level, and the triage narrowed it. Of the four commands the issue names, only estimate-cli's collectCalibrationSamples actually enumerates phase dirs from disk; smart-entry, audit and roadmap-upgrade derive from ROADMAP/body text and never reach the sentinel path, so they are benign by construction and were left alone rather than "fixed" into churn. The existing #3882 rows asserted the helper's return value. Added a consumer-output test driving `query estimate-calibrate` and asserting sample_count and the persisted document. RED proof: reverted collectCalibrationSamples to a raw readdirSync and ran the real CLI - sample_count 3, sentinel leaked; restored - sample_count 2. #3356 — NOT covered, and BOTH halves of the defect were still live in source. The issue is closed; the bug was not fixed. Fixed here rather than writing tests that document a bug as correct. Defect 1, the contradicted row. quick.md:627 claimed `quick-tasks-append` performs "the equivalent write" to the Step 7c row. It did not: the `#` cell was a positional ordinal and `Directory` read `—`, because the route had no way to receive a quick id or task directory. Added OPTIONAL `--quick-id` / `--slug` / `--directory`. A caller with neither - fast.md, the original #2133 caller - omits them and gets the byte-identical prior row, so nothing existing changes. A caller that HAS a real id and directory now gets the canonical row quick.md:632 renders. The false-equivalence sentence itself is corrected rather than left to mislead the next reader. Defect 2, the forced re-derive. The route called readModifyWriteStateMd with no options, so a body-only append to the Quick Tasks table triggered a full re-derive of the disk-derived progress.* frontmatter. Every other body-only writer passes { resync: false } - src/state.cts's own docstring prescribes it - and this route was the lone outlier. RED proof: reverted the option, seeded a project with 2 real phase dirs and a curated total_phases of 25, ran quick-tasks-append; total_phases collapsed to 2. Restored; it stayed 25. That second one is the shape this epic exists to close: a silent write that replaces curated state with a re-derivation nobody asked for, exit 0 throughout. build:lib, lint and lint:ci all exit 0. Refs #3951 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(#3951): amend B6's ledger to what was measured, and document the new flags The ADR gains a ledger amendment in its own correction style - the sixth wrong premise it records, found the same way as the other five, by measuring before building. B6 says the net guard count must fall. It rose: 62 -> 69, +7, measured from the epic's filing commit to origin/next. The attribution is the point, though. Five of the seven came from PRs unrelated to this epic, one was added by a phase of it, and the epic did retire something sub-file - #3884 removed a detector with an explicit "net: -1 detector, 0 added" ledger. Every named casualty is load-bearing, two already carry retractions in this same document, and a sweep of all 22 rules plus every scripts/lint-* found no provably dead guard. There is no honest way to make the count fall; forcing it would trade coverage for a number, which is the Goodhart outcome Decision 6 exists to prevent. The amendment also records that B6's own prescribed fix for one widening was inert. no-adhoc-markdown-parsing self-gates on its filename, so widening only the files: glob - which is what the criterion says to do - ships a rule that still returns {} for every new path. And #3426/#3239 are not reachable by that widening at all; their scans use line filters and split('|'), not the regex fingerprints the rule detects. The roster row tracked them against the wrong mechanism. Three roster rows updated from aspiration to fact: the two widenings are DONE with their measured counts, and lint-phase-enumeration-drift is marked RETAINED rather than "expected casualty - verify before retiring", because Phase 5 verified it and kept it. The rule Decision 6 should carry forward is stated plainly: a guard ledger is a claim about COVERAGE, not about COUNT. "Net count must fall" is measurable and wrong. "Every guard is reachable, and each retirement names what makes its defect unrepresentable" is the property that was actually wanted. CLI-TOOLS.md documents the optional --quick-id/--slug/--directory flags and says plainly that omitting them keeps the pre-#3356 row byte-identical, plus that the append no longer re-derives progress frontmatter. New features fragment (id 3951); FEATURES.md regenerated rather than hand-edited. Changeset is Changed, pr:0 pending backfill. Refs #3951 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(#3951): correct four rows that pinned the lint rule's old narrow reach The remote suite came back RED with 5 failures, all in tests/eslint-rules.test.cjs. They are stale tests, not a regression: four rows assert that no-adhoc-markdown-parsing is inert outside src/*.cts, which is exactly the contract this deliverable changes. Confirmed by reading rather than inferred from the names - the row at :1981 used filename: 'tests/some.test.cjs' and filename: 'scripts/helper.cjs', the two roots the rule now covers on purpose. Worth recording WHY local gates missed this. npm run lint and lint:ci were green, and the touched test files passed standalone. Lint only reports violations in real files; these rows assert the rule's REACH using synthetic RuleTester filenames, so nothing but the full suite could see them. Local green on a rule change says nothing about the rule's own tests. Each row is rewritten with BOTH halves rather than flipped from valid to invalid: - the same fingerprint under tests/ or scripts/ is now flagged, with the right messageId - the negative space is preserved - the same fingerprint under a path outside all three roots (gsd-core/bin/lib/foo.cjs) is still NOT flagged The second half is the one that matters. Without it the rule has no boundary and nothing would catch an over-wide gate later, which is the mirror image of the bug this deliverable just fixed. Each row is renamed to state the current contract; the old names said "non-src/*.cts ... is not flagged" and would have been actively misleading once the bodies changed. Proven to test the widening rather than restate it: every flagged half was run against HEAD~2's pre-widening rule and does NOT fire there, then against the current rule and does. 12/12 on that probe; the full file is 178/178. Swept for the same staleness elsewhere and found none. require-subprocess-timeout's own "inert outside src/*.cts" row is untouched - that rule's gate was not widened here - and no-adhoc-regex-escape's test file already carries correctly-targeted rows. Refs #3951 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(#3951): acknowledge the quick.md growth the attribution guard reported The full suite came back RED with one failure, and it is mine: 1 file(s) grew without an acknowledgment: quick.md grew 364 bytes gsd-core/workflows/quick.md is runtime-loaded emitted content, so correcting its false 'performs the equivalent write' claim trips emitted-attribution by construction. This is the acknowledgment, not a workaround - there is nothing to regenerate. The fragment names ONE path, which is the only one the guard reported. The four spent acknowledgments it also listed (audit-uat, plan-phase, progress, review) belong to other fragments whose ripple the base already absorbs; they are inert, not failures, and are deliberately NOT copied here - naming paths I did not change would make this record false in the other direction. Byte figure corrected before committing: the guard reported 37220 -> 37584 (+364), but origin/next has since moved and quick.md is 37232 there now, so the measured delta is +352. The reason text says so and names the base as a moving figure rather than pinning a number that is already stale. Refs #3951 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(#3951): move the quick.md growth ack to a trailer, delete the obsolete fragment The acknowledgment mechanism changed under this branch. Merging next brought in the redesign - it also deleted .github/workflows/ack-fragment-sweep.yml, which was in the merge status and which I did not register at the time - and the guard now says so directly: Add a trailer to a commit in this PR (never a new file). Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: quick.md - <why this growth is deliberate> So tests/emitted-drift-acks/3951-quick-append-equivalence.json is obsolete on arrival. A fragment file is no longer read by anything, and leaving it would be a dead record that looks like an active one. It is deleted here rather than kept "just in case". The byte figure moved again with the merge: 37232 -> 37596, +364. The earlier fragment said +352, measured before the merge auto-merged quick.md itself. The trailer carries no number, which is the better design - the figure was stale twice in two attempts. Refs #3951 Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: quick.md — #3356/#3951 replaces a false claim with an accurate one. Line 627 said the `quick-tasks-append` shortcut "performs the equivalent write" to the Step 7c row rendered above it; it did not, and that was the documented half of #3356 — with no quick id or task directory the route emitted a positional ordinal in `#` and an em-dash in `Directory`, a visibly different row. The corrected sentence has to carry three facts the original elided: what the shortcut actually writes when it has neither input, that this is honest behavior for its real caller (`fast.md`, which has neither), and how a caller with both now gets the byte-identical canonical row via the new optional `--quick-id`/`--slug`/`--directory` flags. Prose is the product here — an executing agent reads this line to decide whether the shortcut is safe for its case, and a shorter correction would either drop the flags (leaving the reader unable to act on the fix) or drop the limitation (recreating the false claim in gentler words). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(#3951): backfill changeset pr number Refs #3951 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Architecture Decision Records
This directory contains Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for GSD.
Each ADR documents one architectural decision: what was decided, why, and what consequences follow. ADRs are append-only. Amendments extend existing ADRs with a dated section rather than replacing them.
Reading this corpus
Start with the index below, and respect the status. The index is grouped so that the first table — Active decisions — is the set that governs the system as it stands. An ADR in Superseded, Retired, and Legacy is historical: it records what was once decided and names what replaced it. Do not cite it as current architecture.
Two things the index makes explicit, because getting them wrong has actually misled readers here:
- "Read first" on an active ADR points at a broader ADR that now frames it. A decision can be entirely correct and still not be the whole picture. The runtime capability descriptor (ADR-1016) is live and load-bearing, but ADR-1239 (EoS — GSD as an Embeddable Orchestration Engine) subsumes it as the declarative adapter and inverts its direction: GSD is the engine a host embeds, not an installer that projects onto a host. For how GSD meets a host, EoS is the current frame.
Proposedmeans not ratified — and it is kept honest. On 2026-07-17 the corpus was audited against the shipped tree and nine ADRs whose decisions had demonstrably shipped were ratified toAccepted, each carrying a dated Ratification section with the evidence (see ADR-857 for the fullest example). The ADRs that remainProposedareProposedfor a reason recorded in the file — an unmet acceptance criterion, an outstanding phase, or a successor ADR already planned — not through neglect. Trust the label; if you think it is wrong, prove it in a dated section and see Ratifying a staleProposed.
Naming Convention
New ADRs use issue#-prefix slug naming:
docs/adr/<issue#>-<kebab-slug>.md
Examples: 2264-golden-parity-redesign.md, 1239-gsd-embeddable-orchestration-engine.md.
Why
Two developers computing "next ADR number" locally against main will independently pick the same integer and both ship. The collision is already on disk — 0010-* exists twice and 0011-* exists three times. GitHub issue numbers are server-assigned and atomic: the moment you open an issue, that number is reserved globally. Two PRs that both edit the ### Fixed block of CHANGELOG.md always conflict on merge — two PRs that each use a distinct issue# as their ADR prefix never collide. Same shape, same solution.
Legacy naming is not Legacy status
Files 0001-* through 0012-* are preserved as immutable historical record of the old local-compute numbering. The duplicate 0010-* and the three-way 0011-* are documented residue of that convention — not patterns to imitate. Do not renumber them.
This is the single authoritative statement of the legacy range.
docs/contributor-standards.mdreferences it rather than restating it, so the two cannot drift.
Two other zero-padded files look legacy but are not: 0174-retire-gsd-sdk-package-boundary.md (issue #174) and 0656-research-module-seam.md (issue #656) are mis-padded modern ADRs — modern, issue-numbered files whose four-digit padding is a mistake. They are NOT part of the legacy sequential set above and are not "old local-compute numbering" residue.
This is a statement about filenames only. Many of those ADRs are Accepted and load-bearing today (ADR-0002, ADR-0004, ADR-0008, ADR-0009). An old filename says nothing about whether a decision still holds. The Legacy status in the table below is a separate claim — see the vocabulary.
Because 0010-* and 0011-* each resolve to more than one file, a bare cross-reference like "ADR-0011" is genuinely ambiguous. Link the file (see Lifecycle rules).
Full process
See CONTRIBUTING.md — "Proposing an ADR or PRD" for the end-to-end workflow: opening the issue, waiting for approval, naming the file, and submitting the PR.
PRDs live in docs/prd/, not here. (0011-review-default-reviewers-prd.md predates that directory and is kept in place as frozen historical record.)
Lifecycle rules
These are enforced by scripts/gen-adr-index.cjs, which runs in CI via npm run lint:generated-sync. A violation fails the build with the exact file and fix.
1. Every ADR declares one status from the canonical vocabulary
The first word of the Status field must be one of:
| Status | Means | Obligation |
|---|---|---|
Accepted |
Decided and in force. Cite it. | — |
Proposed |
Decided in principle, not ratified. Do not cite as settled. | If the work has demonstrably shipped, ratify it (below) — do not leave the label lying. |
Superseded |
A specific newer ADR replaced this decision. | Must name the successor as a file link. |
Retired |
What this ADR decided no longer exists at all, and no single ADR replaced it. | Say what was removed and when. |
Legacy |
Frozen historical record, kept for provenance; not a pattern to follow. | Say why it is frozen. |
Prose may follow the token (Superseded by [ADR-0174](0174-retire-gsd-sdk-package-boundary.md) (2026-05-23); originally Accepted (2026-05-09)). Both the bullet form (- **Status:** Accepted) and the table form (| **Status** | Accepted |) are accepted.
2. Cross-references to other ADRs are file links, never bare ids
Write [ADR-0011](0011-skill-surface-budget-module.md), not ADR-0011. Bare ids are ambiguous for 0010/0011, and unlinked references cannot be checked.
If you mean an issue, write #857 — not ADR-857. (An ADR and its owning issue often share a number; that is intentional and not a conflict.)
3. Supersession and subsumption are symmetric
These are different relations. Do not conflate them:
Supersedes/Superseded by— the target is replaced. Its status becomesSuperseded.Subsumes/Subsumed by— the target still holds, but a broader ADR now frames it. Its status is unchanged; it becomes a component of the larger decision.
If A declares either relation toward B, B must record the reciprocal. A one-way pointer is the failure this corpus actually suffered: ADR-1239 declared it subsumed four ADRs, none of which said so, and none of which pointed back — so a reader landing on any of them concluded the superseded frame was the way forward.
Only an Accepted ADR is owed the back-link. A Proposed ADR's claim is prospective: it has not taken effect, so its target is not marked. On ratification, the check begins demanding the back-links.
4. The declared id matches the filename
An H1 of # ADR-0175: … in a file named 218-*.md is a rename that never finished. The id in the title must match the filename's prefix.
5. A trailing H1 status bracket must agree with the Status field
Many ADRs restate their status in the H1 — # ADR-1610: … [Accepted]. That bracket is the first thing a reader sees, and the index strips it when rendering the title, so a stale one used to be invisible to everyone but the reader it misled.
If the H1 ends in a bracket holding a status token, it must name the same status as the Status field. Comparison is case-insensitive and against the parsed token, so [Superseded] agrees with Status: Superseded by [ADR-0174](0174-retire-gsd-sdk-package-boundary.md) (2026-05-23).
A trailing bracket that is not a status token — [Draft], [WIP] — is treated as part of the title and left alone. If you want a bracket the gate ignores, do not spell it like a status.
6. Every relative link resolves
A link whose target does not exist on disk fails the check, naming the file, the line, and the unresolved target. This covers every markdown file in this directory, including this README and any file whose name breaks the convention above.
| Written as | Treated as |
|---|---|
[t](900-beta.md), [t](../prd/) |
resolved — a directory counts |
[t](900-beta.md#section) |
the file is resolved; the #fragment is not checked |
[t](https://…), [t](mailto:…), [t](//host/x) |
out of scope — absolute destinations are never fetched |
[t](#lifecycle-rules) |
out of scope — a same-document anchor is not a file reference |
[t](/docs/adr/x.md) |
resolved against the repository root, as GitHub does |
a link inside a ``` fence or `backticks` |
not a link — markdown does not render one there, so it is never resolved |
[text][ref] reference-style, <a href>, bare autolinks |
not supported; write an inline link |
Two consequences worth stating outright:
- Case matters, on every platform.
[t](0001-Alpha.md)pointing at0001-alpha.mdfails even on macOS and Windows, because it 404s on github.com and reds the Linux CI lane. The failure names the entry it found so the fix is obvious. - A link to a generated or ignored path fails. Nothing here consults
.gitignore; the question is only whether a reader following the link lands somewhere. Cite the hand-authored source rather than the build artifact.
If the gate rejects something you wrote
Reproduce it locally first — it is the same command CI runs, and it names the file, the line, and the target:
node scripts/gen-adr-index.cjs --check
Then work from the reason:
| What it says | What to do |
|---|---|
does not resolve — no such file or directory at … |
Fix the path. It is relative to docs/adr/, so a sibling ADR is just 900-slug.md. If the target genuinely does not exist yet, drop the link rather than leaving it pointing nowhere. |
…Did you mean X? — link targets are case-sensitive on github.com |
Match the on-disk name exactly. Your machine may open the file regardless; github.com and the Linux CI lane will not. |
escapes the repository |
The path resolves outside the repo. Link something inside it, or use an absolute URL — those are out of scope and never checked. |
is a symlink that escapes the repository |
An ADR file itself is a symlink pointing outside the repo. Commit a real file. |
H1 status bracket […] contradicts the Status field (…) |
Update whichever of the two is stale so they agree. The Status field is authoritative; the bracket is a restatement for the reader. |
A link that is an example, not a destination, belongs in backticks. The gate skips fenced blocks and inline code entirely, because markdown does not render a link there. That is the escape hatch for illustrative syntax — the table above is written that way, which is why it does not fail this check. An indented code block (four spaces) is not skipped; use backticks.
To consume the result from a script rather than by eye, use --json (below) and branch on each violation's stable reason code.
Ratifying a stale Proposed
A stale Proposed is not cosmetic: it tells contributors and agents that live architecture is an unbuilt idea. Fix it — but on evidence, not vibes.
The bar. All four must hold before flipping to Accepted:
- The decided mechanism demonstrably exists in the tree — name the files, symbols, and tests.
- The owning issue is closed as completed. A closed issue is not proof:
stateReasonof not planned / duplicate means the decision was dropped (that isLegacyorRetired, notAccepted). - No material part is unshipped. If the ADR defines phases and one is outstanding, or states its own bar for acceptance and that bar is unmet, it stays
Proposed. - No later ADR supersedes it, and no approved issue already plans its graduation as separate work.
The procedure. Set the status to Accepted — ratified <date> (originally Proposed <date>), add a dated ## Ratification section holding the evidence, then run node scripts/gen-adr-index.cjs --write. If the ADR claims to supersede or subsume others, the gate will now demand their back-links — that is the point. Ratify deliberately.
Two traps worth knowing, both hit during the 2026-07-17 audit:
- Shipped code is necessary, not sufficient. Eight ADRs had every named module, symbol, and test present and their epics closed — and still failed the bar: ADR-2264's own headline acceptance criterion is unmet in the tree, ADR-230's decided branch protection does not match the live API, ADR-660's namesake mechanism is performed by hand, and ADR-959 has an approved issue planning its graduation as its own ADR. Verify the decision, not just the code.
- "Supersedes" is often "subsumes". Read what the ADR means before the gate makes you act on what it says. ADR-857 said "Supersedes (generalizes)"; taken literally, ratifying it would have stamped two live seams (ADR-0011, ADR-58) as dead. The parenthetical was the truth; the field name was wrong.
Maintaining the index
The index is generated. Do not hand-edit it. Everything between the ADR-INDEX:START / ADR-INDEX:END markers is derived from the ADR files themselves:
node scripts/gen-adr-index.cjs # print the index
node scripts/gen-adr-index.cjs --write # regenerate it into this file
node scripts/gen-adr-index.cjs --check # CI: fail if stale or invalid
node scripts/gen-adr-index.cjs --json # same checks, machine-readable report
After adding an ADR, or changing any ADR's status or relations, run --write and commit the result. npm run lint:generated-sync runs --check in CI, so a missing or stale row fails the build rather than rotting silently.
--json runs the same validation as --check and writes a report to stdout instead of prose to stderr, with the same exit code. Each violation carries a stable reason code, so a tool consuming this never has to pattern-match an error message:
{
"ok": false,
"adrCount": 76,
"indexStale": false,
"violations": [
{ "file": "2704-example.md", "line": 41, "reason": "link_unresolved",
"target": "reference/x.md", "resolved": "docs/adr/reference/x.md" }
]
}
An unrecognized flag is rejected rather than ignored.
This replaces a hand-maintained table that had drifted to 40 of 65 ADRs — the entire capability family and EoS itself were missing from it, which is precisely why the ADRs a reader most needed were the ones they could not find.
Index
Active decisions
These govern the system as it stands. Cite these.
| ADR | Title | Status | Read first |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADR-0001 | Dispatch policy module as single seam for query execution outcomes | Accepted | — |
| ADR-0002 | Command Contract Validation Module | Accepted | — |
| ADR-0003 | Model Catalog Module as single source of truth for agent profiles and runtime tier defaults | Accepted | — |
| ADR-0004 | Planning Workspace Module as single seam for worktree and workstream state | Accepted | — |
| ADR-0006 | Planning Path Projection Module for SDK query handlers | Accepted | — |
| ADR-0008 | Installer Migration Module owns install-time upgrade safety | Accepted | — |
| ADR-0009 | Shell Command Projection Module owns runtime-aware OS command rendering | Accepted | — |
| ADR-0011 | review.default_reviewers config key scopes the no-flag /gsd-review fan-out |
Accepted | — |
| ADR-0011 | Skill Surface Budget Module owns install-time profile staging and runtime surface control | Accepted | ADR-857 |
| ADR-15 | Cross-AI Plan Convergence via Existing Orchestration Commands | Accepted | — |
| ADR-22 | Plan-vs-codebase drift guard: defaults and symbol-resolver seam | Accepted | — |
| ADR-58 | Runtime Install Policy Module owns the typed install-plan projection | Accepted | ADR-1239, ADR-857 |
| ADR-0174 | Retire @opengsd/gsd-sdk package boundary — single-runtime collapse | Accepted | — |
| ADR-218 | Harden release-workflow version validation — reject leading zeros and pre-check npm | Accepted | — |
| ADR-227 | Input validation must check semantic shape, not just type | Accepted | — |
| ADR-415 | Prevent stale-base reintroduction of retired runtime tokens | Accepted | — |
| ADR-443 | Unified cross-provider effort controls and fast-mode-aware routing | Accepted | — |
| ADR-452 | Adopt standard ESLint flat-config lint harness | Accepted | — |
| ADR-456 | Test-rigor architecture — deterministic scheduling, antagonistic tier, typed-surface mandate, and delete-bad-tests policy | Accepted | — |
| ADR-457 | Generation model for bin/lib/*.cjs type safety |
Accepted | — |
| ADR-550 | spec-phase probe pattern and prohibition contract | Accepted | — |
| ADR-0656 | Research Module — L2-hybrid seam for cached, curated-first research | Accepted | — |
| ADR-766 | Claude Code Plugin Manifest Module owns the projection of gsd-core surfaces onto the Claude Code plugin contract | Accepted | — |
| ADR-857 | Capability system — five-step loop as core, features as plug-ins behind Loop Extension Points | Accepted | — |
| ADR-894 | Capability declaration format + registry generation | Accepted | ADR-1239 |
| ADR-959 | Capability Command Contribution | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1016 | Runtime Capability Descriptor | Accepted | ADR-1239 |
| ADR-1235 | Migrate agent conversion to the descriptor-driven install path | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1239 | GSD as an Embeddable Orchestration Engine | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1244 | Capability Ecosystem: third-party authoring, versioned manifests, and URL import/upgrade/remove | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1372 | Canonical markdown-structure parsing — the markdown-sectionizer seam |
Accepted | — |
| ADR-1411 | Resolution must report provenance, not fall open silently | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1508 | Runtime Artifact Conversion Module owns per-runtime content rewriting | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1517 | Reviewer instances — bounded config surface for same-adapter multi-model review | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1577 | Untrusted-input boundary + opt-in injection blocking | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1593 | Skill mapping & converter methodology across runtimes | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1610 | workflow & agent size-budget ratchet (per-file byte baseline + tier hard caps) | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1703 | Cross-platform portability enforcement as AST ESLint rules | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1769 | STATE.md Transition Module — intent-based transitions over scattered RMW callbacks | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1787 | /gsd:next smart-entry front door delegates advancement to /gsd:progress --next |
Accepted | — |
| ADR-1817 | STATE.md rebuild — derivability contract (capstone transition) | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1820 | Spec-Optional Predicate Rail — the Spec-Section Detection Module, the fallback toggle, and the SPEC↔probe precedence contract | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1866 | agent_skills dual injection — orchestrator-side + agent-side self-load | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1990 | Existing Code Onboarding Module owns deterministic repo-state detection and onboarding route selection | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2008 | Generic gate-predicate evaluator | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2121 | Phase-Identifier Parsing Consolidation | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2143 | Markdown Table Model, Bounded Mutation, and Fail-Loud Consolidation (#1372 part 2) | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2164 | Statusline draws its data boundary at local, read-only sources | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2207 | STATE.md Status lifecycle — phase-completion writes an intermediate state; milestone-close owns termination |
Accepted | — |
| ADR-2313 | Codex Adopts the Passive / Session-Only Model Posture | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2346 | Command Dispatch Completion | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2363 | A capability's skill body is an instruction surface — trusted, unscanned, and disclosed | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2619 | Observability and shareable diagnostics — wire the dispatch seam, add the outbound trust boundary | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2629 | Phase effort is estimated against a calibrated smart-zone budget, not a static heuristic | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2719 | Emitted-artifact attribution — replace the committed parity fixtures with a computed conservation law | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2782 | Reviewer Lane — the cross-AI reviewer handoff becomes a declared capability surface | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2866 | Install-surface resolution — the install pipeline resolves (runtime × scope × trigger) as a value |
Accepted | — |
| ADR-2966 | Test the five-step loop as a continuous walk, not isolated points | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2980 | A payload-carried error key is a degraded result, not a fault |
Accepted | — |
| ADR-3180 | Planning Semantic Model — Single Owner per Derivation | Accepted | — |
| ADR-3212 | The Lexical Seam — Safe Pattern Construction, Line-Terminator Normalization, and Tokenizer-First Stateful Grammars | Accepted | — |
| ADR-3408 | STATE.md Write Path — One Declared Policy, One Write Seam | Accepted | — |
| ADR-3409 | Shell Guards Must Observe Their Own Failure Arm | Accepted | — |
| ADR-3473 | Enforcement by Construction — One Owner per Invariant | Accepted | — |
| ADR-3574 | Install materialization shares primitives, not one writer | Accepted | — |
| ADR-3625 | The platform seam keeps its own Windows binary resolution rather than adopting a spawn library | Accepted | — |
| ADR-3660 | Runtime Artifact Layout Module owns per-runtime artifact placement | Accepted | ADR-1239 |
Proposed
Decided in principle, not yet ratified. Do not cite as settled architecture.
| ADR | Title | Status | Read first |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADR-230 | Introduce next as a long-lived integration branch |
Proposed | — |
| ADR-612 | Bracket Phase-ID Convention | Proposed | — |
| ADR-660 | Release from the head of next; immutable release tags; @next dist-tag as the RC surface |
Proposed | — |
| ADR-1143 | Claude orchestration capability — Workflow tool (ultracode) as a runtime-gated loop execution backend | Proposed | — |
| ADR-1213 | Capability write side — the Capability State Writer | Proposed | — |
| ADR-1606 | prohibition-enforcement verify-time seam | Proposed | — |
| ADR-1671 | Dynamic context management platform | Proposed | — |
| ADR-1953 | Complexity-triggered refactor — the loop measures the entropy it just added | Proposed | — |
| ADR-3128 | Adaptive runtime evidence for GSD Debug | Proposed | — |
| ADR-3889 | One exit-code registry — 0 and 1 are free, everything else is allocated | Proposed | — |
| ADR-3942 | The emitted-drift acknowledgment is PR-lifetime data — it belongs in a commit trailer, not the working tree | Proposed | — |
Superseded, Retired, and Legacy
Historical record. Do not follow these — each names what replaced it, or why it was retired.
| ADR | Title | Status | Replaced by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADR-0005 | SDK Architecture seam map for query/runtime surfaces | Superseded | ADR-0174 |
| ADR-0007 | SDK Package Seam Module owns SDK-to-get-shit-done-redux compatibility | Superseded | ADR-0174 |
| ADR-0010 | File Operation Engine Module owns safe runtime/config file mutations | Superseded | ADR-0009 |
| ADR-0010 | Skill Surface Budget Module owns install-time skill listing curation | Superseded | ADR-0011 |
| ADR-0011 | PRD — review.default_reviewers config key for /gsd-review reviewer selection |
Legacy | — |
| ADR-0012 | CommandRoutingHub as single dispatch seam for CJS command families | Superseded | ADR-0174 |
| ADR-2264 | Redesign golden-install-parity — single-source manifest builder + split invariant | Superseded | ADR-2719 |
| ADR-3524 | CJS↔SDK hard seam — one source of truth per Shared Module | Superseded | ADR-0174 |
Generated by scripts/gen-adr-index.cjs — run --write after adding or restatusing an ADR.
Seam map
Orientation for the module-ownership ADRs. This section is prose and hand-maintained; the index above is the authority on status.
How GSD meets a host — start at ADR-1239 (EoS). It is the current frame and subsumes the descriptor/projection ADRs (ADR-1016, ADR-58, ADR-3660, ADR-894) as adapters beneath it.
The SDK seam map is gone. ADR-0005 was once the entry point for SDK module ownership; it is superseded by ADR-0174, which retired the @opengsd/gsd-sdk package boundary entirely. There is no sdk/ tree. Read ADR-0174 for the single-runtime collapse; the seam-Module vocabulary survives under one src/.
ADR-0006 documents how query handlers project planning paths (cwd → effectiveRoot → .planning/<project>/...). Cross-reference the Planning Workspace Module (ADR-0004) for workstream pointer policy.
ADR-0008 documents the Installer Migration Module for safe install-time moves, removals, config rewrites, and user-data preservation.
ADR-0009 documents the Shell Command Projection Module seam for runtime-aware projection of installer-owned command text and projection IR. Its Phases 3–4 absorbed the File Operation Engine Module (ADR-0010).
ADR-0011 documents the Skill Surface Budget Module for install-time skill/agent profile staging (--profile=<name>, .gsd-profile marker, requires: closure) and the Phase 2 runtime /gsd:surface command.
ADR-1411 establishes the Resolution Provenance principle: context resolution (config loading, project-root anchoring, workstream resolution) must report its provenance rather than fall open silently to defaults. It is the resolution-side analog of ADR-227 (input-validation shape).