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* test(#2724): delete golden-install-parity fixtures, test, and generator Removes the 19 committed path->hash manifests, the two per-file size baselines, tests/golden-install-parity.test.cjs, and scripts/gen-golden-install-parity-zcode.cjs. These were pure functions of the source tree (ADR-2719); the differential attribution check (tests/emitted-attribution.test.cjs + tests/emitted-provenance.test.cjs) is now the sole gate for emitted-artifact propagation. tests/fixtures/install-tree/*.json and tests/golden-install-tree.test.cjs are unchanged (ADR-2719 section 7 exception). Follow-up commits fix the resulting bookkeeping: scripts/ci-test-scope.cjs's existence guard, .gitattributes, package.json scripts, the emitted-provenance totality guard's IO, the differential check's baseline acquisition, CI wiring to publish/restore the baseline artifact, and docs. * refactor(#2724): make the differential attribution check self-sufficient Three fixes required to delete the golden fixtures without breaking CI: - scripts/ci-test-scope.cjs: remove tests/golden-install-parity.test.cjs from the three rules that named it. #2759's missingRuleTestFiles guard hard-throws at module load if a rule names a test file absent from disk, which would break the changes job on every PR the moment the fixture-deletion commit landed. - tests/helpers/emitted-provenance.cjs: loadManifests() read the committed golden fixture directory. With that directory deleted at every future ref, this would throw at module load forever, taking the Phase 2 totality guard down with it. Rebuilt from real installer spawns (MANIFEST_FAMILIES + runMinimalInstall + buildParityManifest), the same shape emitted-runtime.cjs's currentManifests() already uses. - tests/emitted-attribution.test.cjs / tests/helpers/emitted-runtime.cjs: the real-tree test's baseline acquisition swaps from baselineManifestsAtRef(base) (git show at a ref that no longer carries fixtures) to resolveBaseline()'s documented precedence: env, then the on-disk cache, then an in-job build. The build fallback (buildBaselineAtRef, new) checks out base into a throwaway git worktree and runs the new scripts/gen-emitted-baseline.cjs there -- no npm ci needed, since bin/install.js and the test helper shells are Node-builtins-only. That script also publishes the baseline artifact from CI's push-to-next job (wired in a follow-up commit). * refactor(#2724): retire the merge-driver bridge and per-file size baselines The Phase 1 bridge (#2721) is retired now that the artifacts it guarded are deleted: scripts/git-merge-regen-driver.cjs, its test, and the 'setup:merge-driver' npm script are removed, and the .gitattributes merge=gsd-regen/linguist-generated block for the three deleted-path globs is dropped. tests/fixtures/install-tree/*.json keeps its normal merge behavior, unchanged (ADR-2719 section 7). scripts/update-size-baseline.cjs and its test are removed: their sole purpose was regenerating tests/workflow-size-baseline.json and tests/agent-size-baseline.json, both deleted. The 'size:baseline' npm script and its step in 'regen:derived' go with it. The per-file baseline describe blocks in tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs and tests/agent-size-budget.test.cjs are removed for the same reason; the independent loose-tier hard caps are untouched. The differential attribution check's size ratchet (tests/emitted-diff.cjs, already shipped in #2723) is the replacement anti-creep mechanism. 'npm run gen:golden' is replaced by 'npm run gen:install-tree', which keeps regenerating tests/fixtures/install-tree/*.json (the one artifact family ADR-2719 section 7 keeps committed); tests/golden-install-tree.test.cjs's error messages point at the new command name. tests/golden-parity-single-source.test.cjs's anti-divergence guard (#2266) is retargeted from the two deleted golden-parity consumers to their two replacements (tests/helpers/emitted-runtime.cjs and tests/helpers/emitted-provenance.cjs), which import buildParityManifest the same way — the divergence risk the guard exists for is unchanged. Also wires CI: a new publish-emitted-baseline job runs scripts/gen-emitted-baseline.cjs after a push to next and caches the result keyed on the sha; the test and test-full jobs restore that cache on pull_request events, keyed on the PR's base sha, and export GSD_EMITTED_BASELINE for tests/emitted-attribution.test.cjs's real-tree test to pick up. * docs(#2724): flip ADR-2719 to Accepted and update contributor docs Status: Proposed -> Accepted. Regenerated docs/adr/README.md index. CONTRIBUTING.md, docs/TESTING-SUITES.md, and CONTEXT.md (RULESET. EMITTED_ATTRIBUTION, RULESET.WORKFLOW_SIZE_BUDGET, RULESET. AGENT_SIZE_BUDGET, and the Emitted Artifact Provenance glossary entry) no longer point at the deleted golden-install-parity fixtures, size baselines, gen:golden, UPDATE_GOLDEN, or the setup:merge-driver / git-merge-regen-driver.cjs bridge. Editing shipped content now requires zero manual fixture regeneration, documented against the differential attribution check instead of the deleted commands. * docs(#2724): add changeset for removed golden-parity commands * fix(#2724): drop stale scripts/update-size-baseline.cjs glossary ref check-glossary-refs.cjs verifies every backtick-wrapped scripts/*.cjs token in CONTEXT.md resolves to a real file. The RULESET. EMITTED_ATTRIBUTION rewrite named the deleted script inside backticks, which the checker reads as a live reference, not historical prose. * test(#2724): retarget ci-test-scope tests off the deleted golden test tests/ci-test-scope.test.cjs asserted specific RULES entries select tests/golden-install-parity.test.cjs, and that every rule selecting it also selects both emitted gates. Both premises broke when the golden test was deleted (#2724): the deleted filename never re-appears in targeted_tests, and there was no longer a third file for the gates to travel alongside. Retargeted the two selection describe blocks to assert tests/emitted-provenance.test.cjs directly (the drift guard the golden gate's rules were retargeted to), and simplified the third block to assert the two emitted gates always travel together, without reference to the golden filename. * docs(#2724): repoint two contributor how-to guides at the differential check Both guides told contributors to regenerate a baseline against tests/golden-install-parity.test.cjs, which #2724 deletes. Repointed at the differential attribution check (tests/emitted-attribution.test.cjs, ADR-2719), which needs no manual regeneration step. * fix(#2724): repair phase6-capstone-conformance's deleted-baseline read An independent orthogonal review caught a real regression this branch introduced into a test file the branch's diff never touched: tests/phase6-capstone-conformance.test.cjs read tests/workflow-size-baseline.json (deleted earlier in this branch) with no fallback, so the whole suite would throw ENOENT the moment this branch landed. The test's actual intent — prove the host-loop workflow files are real, tracked, non-empty docs — is preserved by asserting the live byte count via the same shared counter (scripts/workflow-size.cjs) the size guards already use, instead of a committed snapshot. Also, from the same review: a stale doc comment in scripts/workflow-size.cjs still named the deleted scripts/update-size-baseline.cjs as a consumer, and buildBaselineAtRef's cleanup in tests/helpers/emitted-runtime.cjs left two fs.rmSync calls unguarded against masking the primary result/error, inconsistent with the try/catch already wrapping the git cleanup beside them. Both fixed. A doc comment was added to baselineFamilyNamesAtRef explaining why it (and its siblings) are kept despite having no production caller post-cutover — they still answer real questions about refs that predate the cutover. * fix(#2724): repair three real regressions found by remote verification 1. tests/emitted-provenance.test.cjs's two hostile-input tests (non-object manifest, unreadable fixture) drove loadManifests(tmp) and monkeypatched fs.readFileSync, both premised on the deleted fixture-directory read this branch already replaced with real installer spawns -- the negative assertions silently stopped firing. loadManifests() now accepts injected {families, install, build, clean} (defaulting to production values), giving the tests a real seam to drive a bad build result and a build failure through the ACTUAL loader instead of a reimplementation, and added coverage that clean() still runs on both paths. 2. .github/workflows/test.yml's two 'Export GSD_EMITTED_BASELINE' steps hardcoded shell: bash, which is wrong on windows-latest (native pwsh) and on test-full's macos-latest legs (native zsh per that job's own matrix) -- the repo's H1 shell policy (tests/policy-shell-pinning .test.cjs) caught it. Replaced the inline bash script with scripts/ci-export-emitted-baseline-env.cjs, a plain Node script: a bare 'node <path>' command line has no shell-specific syntax, so it runs correctly under bash, zsh, and pwsh without a shell override. tests/phase6-capstone-conformance.test.cjs's deleted-baseline read (caught by the same remote run, at a commit prior to this one) was already fixed in d0c3b1242 and is not touched here; verified still passing after these changes. * fix(#2724): revive ADR-1610's new-file size cap inside the differential An isolated review caught a real regression: deleting tests/workflow-size-baseline.json silently dropped NEW_FILE_CAP (ADR-1610 Decision point 3, the Codex project_doc_max_bytes anchor) with no successor. tests/helpers/emitted-diff.cjs's size ratchet already 'continue's past any file absent from sizeBaseline -- exactly the files this cap exists to bound -- so a brand-new workflow file sized 32,769-40,960 bytes passed CI clean and shipped, then risked silent truncation at the Codex anchor at runtime. ADR-1610 is Accepted and never referenced anywhere in this branch. Fix: NEW_FILE_CAP=32768 revived inside emitted-diff.cjs's own size-ratchet loop, keyed off the SAME hasOwnProperty(sizeBaseline, name) signal the growth check already computes -- 'new' is exactly 'present in sizeCurrent, absent from sizeBaseline'. Not ack-able, matching the tier hard caps it sits beside: the fix is extraction, not an acknowledgment entry. Documented, disclosed narrowing: the pure differential module cannot see XL_WORKFLOWS/LARGE_WORKFLOWS tiering (tests/workflow-size-budget.test.cjs's classification), so a legitimately large new file must extract rather than tier in, one release earlier than an existing file would need to. ADR-1610 itself is left unamended -- this restores its decision rather than re-litigating it. Also fixes a stale comment plus a redundant real 19-installer-spawn assertion left over from the pre-injection-seam version of tests/emitted-provenance.test.cjs's build-failure test, and annotates 3 of 4 stale golden-fixture citations in docs/reference/host-integration-capability-matrix.md as superseded (the 4th is an accurate historical PR narrative, left alone). * fix(#2724): repair three red CI defects on the golden-fixture cutover Windows-only provenance false attribution (defect A): the `hooks-built` provenance rule attributed `hooks/<name>.cmd` to itself. Those shims are Windows-only installer output (ensureCodexHooksJsonSessionStart / ensureCodexHooksJsonEvent, both in src/runtime-hooks-surface.cts) wrapping the same-named `.js` hook — no `.cmd` file is ever tracked in the repo, so the self-attribution resolved to a path that exists on no platform. Only windows-latest ever emits the key, so this only failed there. Fixed by special-casing `.cmd` inside the SAME `hooks-built` rule (not a dedicated rule) — a dedicated rule would match zero paths, and therefore report as a dead rule, on every non-Windows lane of the same totality guard. `sources` already supported per-match functions; `transforms` is extended to support the same shape so the attribution can vary by match within one rule. Baseline bootstrap was structurally impossible (defect B): `buildBaselineAtRef` ran `scripts/gen-emitted-baseline.cjs` from INSIDE the base-ref worktree, but that script is new in this PR and therefore absent at any base ref that predates it — every call failed closed with "Cannot find module". Fixed by running the PR checkout's own generator against the worktree via a new `--dir` parameter, decoupling "which copy of the script runs" from "which tree it measures" (`currentManifests`/`currentSizes` gained a `repoRoot` override, threaded down to `runMinimalInstall`'s new `installScript` override). This is not just a bootstrap fix: a differential needs ONE measurement schema applied to both sides, or the two stop being comparable the moment that schema evolves — running each side's own copy would silently reintroduce that risk. Verified locally end-to-end against real origin/next: resolves a valid {version, sha, manifests, sizes} artifact with the correct sha and no leaked worktree. Changeset placeholder (defect C): `pr: 0` -> `pr: 2767`, which is what let docs-lint evaluate the fragment for the first time; it already passes (docs/TESTING-SUITES.md and friends already document the removed scripts). Also fixed while in this file: an eslint no-unused-vars warning surfaced by the changed lint run (unused `cleanup` import in tests/emitted-provenance.test.cjs). Added regression coverage for both A and B: a cross-platform spot-check that drives the real hooks-built rule against `.cmd` keys directly (not through a real Windows install), and a real-tree test that drives buildBaselineAtRef against a base ref verified (via git cat-file) to lack the generator, both skipping honestly rather than false-passing when their precondition does not hold. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W5kQs6ZufZDySC6zDJfYP6 * fix(#2724): repair false .cmd byte-provenance and a permanently-skipping regression test Two isolated-review findings on PR #2767: - `hooks-built`'s `.cmd` branch attributed the Windows shim's bytes to the wrapped `hooks/<name>.js` script, asserting a byte-provenance link that does not exist — traced against buildCodexHookWindowsShimIR (src/runtime-hooks-surface.cts), only the script's NAME (a literal in that same file) flows into the .cmd bytes, never its content. Point `sources` at HOOKS_WINDOWS_SHIM_SRC instead, matching the code-derived convention used elsewhere in the table. Since `sources` is checked before `transforms` in the differential, the wrong mapping silently excused any .cmd byte movement caused by editing the wrapped .js file. - The `buildBaselineAtRef` regression test skipped unless a resolvable base ref still lacked scripts/gen-emitted-baseline.cjs — true only until this PR merges, after which every base ref carries the file and the test skips forever with zero ongoing coverage. Rebuilt hermetically: synthesize the missing-generator condition in-place via git plumbing (a throwaway commit, child of HEAD, with just that one file removed from a scratch index), never touching the real working tree, HEAD, or index, and never depending on ambient history or remotes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W5kQs6ZufZDySC6zDJfYP6 * fix(#2724): tolerate the remote runner's dubious-ownership git mount in the emitted baseline path The runner container mounts the repo at a path owned by a different uid than the process running the suite, so git's dubious-ownership protection refuses every git operation there. GitHub Actions never hits this because actions/checkout registers the workspace as safe automatically; this runner's container does not. buildBaselineAtRef is the production build-fallback the sole remaining emitted gate depends on (resolveBaseline's in-job-build leg), not just a test helper, so the fix is in the shared git() wrapper (emitted-runtime.cjs) that every caller — resolveChangedPaths, resolveBase, buildBaselineAtRef's worktree add/remove/prune, and the hermetic regression test added in the prior commit — funnels through, plus gen-emitted-baseline.cjs's own rev-parse (now reusing that same wrapper instead of a second execFileSync, so the fix has one source of truth). Each call declares -c safe.directory=<the exact directory it already operates on>, never the * wildcard. Audited every other helper on this surface (emitted-diff.cjs, emitted-baseline.cjs, install-shared.cjs) for the same gap: none of them shell out to git at all. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W5kQs6ZufZDySC6zDJfYP6 --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <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-* (and 0174-*) 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 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.
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
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.
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 (52)
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-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 (command-exit-zero) |
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-2346 | Command Dispatch Completion | 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-3660 | Runtime Artifact Layout Module owns per-runtime artifact placement | Accepted | ADR-1239 |
Proposed (8)
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-443 | Unified cross-provider effort controls and fast-mode-aware routing | 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 | — |
Superseded, Retired, and Legacy (8)
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 |
68 ADRs. 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).