a2c7b879d0
The issue's "0 conditional branches" premise missed a live one: the `!isZcode`
shared-hooks exclusion (bin/install.js). Fold it onto descriptor-driven
hostBehaviors.skipSharedHooksInstall:true (zcode's golden has zero hook files —
byte-parity verified) and drop the now-unused isZcode destructure. Zero live
runtime==='zcode'/isZcode branches remain (AC2 source-grep guard over
bin/install.js + install-engine.cts + surface.cts + runtime-artifact-conversion.cts).
The 6 CLI-bookkeeping zcode mentions (--zcode flag, menu, roster, help) stay.
Reference test (declarative-reference-zcode.test.cjs): profileOf → declarative-cli;
createDeclarativeAdapter({runtime:'zcode'}).kind → declarative; a real install emits
the invocable nested-skills/commands/agents surface (no hooks); negotiateHostCapabilities
fail-closes (empty/corrupt descriptor; the nested/maxDepth undocumented sub-axes degrade
to most-restrictive); validateCapability clean.
UPGRADES documented as BLOCKED (verified doc gaps — NOT guessed, to avoid a
non-functional false-green): both of ZCode's documented capabilities lack a published
on-disk config format.
- Hook automation: zcode.z.ai/en/docs/plugin documents the Hook component only as
"automation hooks triggered on specific events" (capability detected from directory
layout) — no config file format/location/event schema. Cannot faithfully wire.
- MCP registration: zcode.z.ai/en/docs/mcp-services says servers are "stored in the
.zcode configuration file" (UI-only) with no documented on-disk filename/path/schema —
exactly the settings-filename gap the issue AC anticipated.
Both are documented (with the search trail) in the capability matrix + how-to, per AC4's
block-documentation clause; hookBus/transport stay declared for when ZCode publishes the
formats. No hook scripts or MCP artifacts added → no golden change, no other-runtime impact.
Golden: byte-identical for all 16 runtimes (the fold is byte-parity; no upgrade artifacts).
Matrix ## zcode EoS note + how-to; changeset (Changed). capability-registry regenerated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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
- 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
- Root README — landing page, quickstart, and documentation overview
- Changelog — release history