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* chore(#2798): declare the eleven reviewer lanes as manifest data Phase 5a of epic #2782, delivering ADR-2782 D9 (roster half) and D3. - Five reviewers GSD never installs into become lane-only role:reviewer capabilities with no runtime body, no runtimeCompat and no install surface: gemini, coderabbit, ollama, lm-studio, llama-cpp. Before this they had no descriptor at all and lived as a hardcoded NON_RUNTIME_REVIEWER_SLUGS tail, which is now deleted outright. - The six hosts that are ALSO reviewers gain a reviewer body alongside their runtime body. Their runtime bodies are byte-identical to next -- verified per capability against the git blob, not asserted -- so no install behaviour moves. - KNOWN_REVIEWER_SLUGS derives from declared bodies via an exported deriveReviewerSlugs(registry). hostBehaviors.reviewerCli survives as a derived legacy alias for one release; where a capability carries both, the body wins and the slug appears once. Alias removal is Phase 7 (#2801). THE KEYSTONE: the roster is the SAME ELEVEN SLUGS as before -- antigravity, claude, coderabbit, codex, cursor, gemini, llama_cpp, lm_studio, ollama, opencode, qwen. This phase changes HOW the roster is derived, not WHO is in it, and the test asserts that literal list rather than a count. kimi-code is deliberately NOT declared here. It is net-new with no invoke_reviewers leg, so declaring it now would make it selectable but not invocable -- present in --all, selected, emitting an empty section for the whole 5a-to-5b window -- and would break Phase 1's parity assertion. It lands in 5b alongside the iteration that can run it. Legacy kimi (the Python CLI) is not a reviewer at all and gains nothing. The highest-value test is declaredManifestLanesMatchThePhase1Descriptor: it deep-compares all eleven declared bodies against REVIEWER_LANES field-by-field, including probe and invoke sub-fields. All eleven are byte-identical, key order included. The epic's premise is that the manifest and the core descriptor describe the same lane with NO translation layer, and Phase 2's review already caught one divergence that every other test missed. Two ADR corrections folded in, as Phases 1-3 each did: 1. PHASE ORDER. The ADR runs Phase 4 (federated config) before 5a and #2798 claims a dependency on 4. That is inverted and makes Phase 4 unsatisfiable: D9 assigns review.<host>_host to lane capabilities that do not exist until THIS phase creates them, and a federated config slice must live inside capabilities/<id>/capability.json. Real graph: Phase 2 -> 5a -> 4. 2. #2798's INVENTORY acceptance item is vacuous. The inventory catalogs bin/lib/*.cjs modules, not capability directories -- antigravity, opencode and qwen appear zero times in it -- and gen-inventory-manifest --check passes with the five new dirs and no edit. Also corrected a stale line in Phase 2's own ADR amendment: it recorded the slug pattern as /^[a-z][a-z0-9_-]*$/, but Phase 2's security review widened the shipped pattern to /^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*$/ to match Phase 1's exported LANE_SLUG_RE. The prose had not followed the code. Closes #2798 * fix(#2798): catalogue reviewer capabilities in the generated matrix The capability matrix rendered exactly two tables, feature and runtime, via renderTable(caps, role) filtering on c.role === role. ADR-2782 D3 added a THIRD role, so every role:"reviewer" capability was silently dropped from the first-party catalogue. The drift guard did not catch it, and could not: --check compares generated output against the committed file, and both omitted the five lanes identically, so it reported "up to date" while five shipped capabilities were invisible in the one document that is supposed to list what ships. A guard blind to an entire role is not guarding. This phase is what exposed it -- it ships the first role:"reviewer" capabilities -- so it is fixed here rather than deferred (CLAUDE.md: a defect found while working is fixed in the current change, which overrides one-concern-per-PR). Verified red-before-green: with a lane row deleted from the matrix, --check now exits 1; restored, it exits 0. Before this fix the lanes were absent entirely, so there was nothing for the guard to compare. Phase 6 (#2800) still owns enriching the matrix with lane-specific detail (slug/flag/transport columns) and the locale parity gate. This is the narrower fix: the capabilities APPEAR at all. * fix(#2798): close two hardening gaps and record three limits durably Isolated security review (5 targets, no blockers) reproduced two gaps in the new deriveReviewerSlugs. Both are unreachable through the checked-in registry -- it is generated, JSON-sourced and code-reviewed -- but the function is EXPORTED for reuse and carries no other validation, so it must not depend on its caller. - A whitespace-only slug passed the length>0 test verbatim and occupied a roster entry it could never match. Slugs are now trimmed before the emptiness test. A blank body correctly falls through to the legacy alias rather than DROPPING the lane, which would have been worse than the blank slug. - KNOWN_REVIEWER_SLUGS is computed at require() time, so an uncaught throw there breaks import for EVERY consumer rather than degrading selection. It is now guarded, yielding an empty roster on a malformed registry. That is a visible degradation, not a silent one: under D4 an explicitly requested reviewer that is unavailable is an ERROR, so /gsd:review --claude against an empty roster fails loudly. This also removes an asymmetry -- the sibling capability-trust module documents its collectors as TOTAL and wraps them for exactly this reason. Also records three findings that previously existed ONLY in squash-merged PR bodies, which is not a durable record: - ADR-2782 D5 gains an implementation note explaining why the resolved host is deliberately EXCLUDED from the disclosure signature. Rule 1 says consent binds the resolved host; the loader has no config resolver, so folding it in would make the loader and lifecycle compute different signatures for one manifest and re-prompt forever. The binding is split: signature covers the SHA-pinned manifest fields, the consent record stores the resolved host, and Phase 5b re-resolves at invocation -- which is where rule 4 already puts the check. A reader comparing rule 1 to the code would otherwise conclude it is unimplemented. - CONTEXT.md's capability-trust entry still described THREE executable surfaces. Phase 3 added the fourth and made that false; corrected here, since it is drift this epic introduced rather than Phase 6's new-glossary-term work. - stableJson documents the NaN/Infinity/undefined -> null signature collision and why it is unreachable (JSON grammar has no such literal, so JSON.parse throws first). Reachability rests entirely on the ingest path staying JSON.parse-only, so the note lives where someone would break it. * chore(#2798): backfill changeset pr number to 2837
GSD Core documentation
Documentation is organised into four quadrants: tutorials help you learn by doing, how-to guides solve specific tasks, reference states authoritative facts, and explanation explores concepts and design decisions.
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Tutorials
- Your first project — install to first shipped phase, one guaranteed path
- Onboarding an existing codebase — bring GSD Core to a brownfield repo
- Build your first capability — author a tiny declarative capability and watch it act in the loop
- Install your first capability — install a third-party capability end-to-end: consent, verify, check for updates, remove
How-to guides
- Install on your runtime — runtime-specific install steps for all 16 supported runtimes
- Install a minimal GSD and add skills later — install only the core skills, then grow the surface with profiles and
/gsd:surface - Attach a plugin-provided skill to a GSD agent — use the
global:plugin:skillentry form to load Claude Code plugin skills into agent prompts - Discuss a phase — capture implementation decisions before planning begins
- Resolve edge-coverage findings — turn the spec phase's surfaced domain-boundary edges into covered, dismissed, or backstopped spec decisions
- Resolve prohibition findings — turn the spec phase's surfaced must-NOT constraints into resolved, dismissed, or deferred spec decisions
- Plan a phase — run research, decompose work, and verify plan quality
- Execute a phase — run plans in parallel waves with fresh-context subagents
- Verify and ship — walk through completed work, diagnose failures, and create the PR
- Run phases autonomously — use autonomous mode for unattended phase execution
- Handle quick and fast tasks — use
/gsd-quickand/gsd-fastfor ad-hoc work outside the phase loop - Configure model profiles — switch between quality, balanced, and budget model tiers
- Set up cross-AI review — configure a second AI to review code produced by the primary agent
- Work in parallel with workstreams — run independent lines of work simultaneously using workstreams
- Isolate work with workspaces — use workspaces to sandbox experimental or risky changes
- Debug a failed execution — diagnose and recover from broken or incomplete phase execution
- Spike and sketch — use
/gsd-spikeand/gsd-sketchfor exploratory work before committing to a plan - Design a UI phase — use the UI phase loop for frontend and visual work
- Develop a Capability for GSD 1.5+ — add feature Capabilities, hook fragments, and registry entries
- Add or update a host's integration — set a host's documentation-sourced
runtime.hostIntegrationaxes (ADR-1239 Phase A), with theundocumentedsentinel rule - Turn a capability off (and keep it off) — disable a capability via the surface, or gate individual hooks off without removing the capability
- Drive GSD from a tracker issue — start a phase from a GitHub, Linear, or Jira issue
- Migrate from GSD 2 — upgrade an existing GSD 2 project to GSD Core
- Update GSD — re-run the installer to pick up the latest release
- Clean up get-shit-done-cc — remove leftover old-package artifacts that cause a spurious
⬆ /gsd:updateindicator after migrating to@opengsd/gsd-core - Fix the worktree base-mismatch (exit 42) error — resolve the branch-divergence condition that halts parallel phase execution
- Recover and troubleshoot — fix common problems, rebuild context, and uninstall
Reference
- Commands — every command with flags and examples
- Configuration — full config schema, model profiles, git branching strategies
- CLI tools —
gsd-tools.cjsprogrammatic API for workflows and agents - Features — complete feature index
- Inventory — installed skills and surface map
- STATE.md schema — field-by-field reference for
.planning/STATE.md - CONTEXT.md schema — field-by-field reference for
.planning/phases/<N>/CONTEXT.md - PLAN.md schema — field-by-field reference for
.planning/phases/<N>/PLAN.md - Planning artifacts — all
.planning/files and their roles - Review and verification capabilities — code review, security, and Nyquist capability ownership and hook contracts
- Capability matrix — generated catalogue of every capability's role, tier, extension points, hook kinds, and
engines.gsd - Capability manifest — the full
capability.jsonschema and validation rules gsd capabilitycommand — install / update / remove / list reference for third-party capabilities
Explanation
- Context engineering — how context rot forms and how GSD Core prevents it
- The phase loop — design rationale for the Discuss → Plan → Execute → Verify → Ship cycle
- Multi-agent orchestration — how subagents are spawned, scoped, and coordinated
- Security model — trust boundaries, permissions, and safe automation
- The capability trust model — why third-party capabilities are gated by consent + integrity + reversibility, not a sandbox
- How overlay capabilities compose — why first-party always wins and how the loader resolves precedence, conflicts, and fail-open load-failure warnings
- Architecture — system architecture, agent model, and data flow
- The Embeddable Orchestration System — one public, versioned contract for embedding GSD across many hosts
- Discuss modes — assumptions mode vs interview mode for
/gsd-discuss-phase - Context monitoring — context window monitoring hook architecture
- Issue-driven orchestration — recipe for driving GSD from a tracker issue using existing primitives
Related
- What's new in 1.7.0 — curated highlights of the 1.7.0 release
- Root README — landing page, quickstart, and documentation overview
- Changelog — release history