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Realize ADR-857 Branch 8 (host-CLI support as role:runtime Capabilities) + materialize ADR-58's InstallPlan. Closes the 6-axis descriptor vocabulary, absorbs the hard-case runtimes as data, and stages the install migration as a 5a→5g ladder (4/6 axes already modularized; InstallPlan is the 5g capstone, reachable by collection, not a big-bang rewrite). Amended after a plugin-side design grill (rubber-duck + grill-with-docs vs #956 MemPalace / #999 Impeccable): - New term Connected Capability (CONTEXT.md) — a Capability whose integration shape brings its own external process/service/state; orthogonal to authorship. Named, tracked gap (vehicle #956); current schema does not express it. - Narrowed the dogfood claim: the descriptor dogfoods the runtime interface only, not the feature-plugin/Connected path. - Structural "off means off" rule (CONTEXT.md RULESET.CAPABILITY.off-means-off): the host derives shared outputs from active hooks; a hook adds/is-counted, never mutates host source. Ratify in ADR-894; proven by spike #1018. - Hand-waves resolved by code: sandboxTier real-but-thin; model-catalog orthogonal (not a 7th axis); converters closed into a ConverterName enum + added the kimi-agents artifact kind; configHome is pure read-only. - Hook-firing path is unproven (render-hooks built, never consumed) → spike #1018 must prove render-hooks→live-workflow execution before phase-5 build. Design-only; no code. Status: Proposed. Closes #1016 Co-authored-by: github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> 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
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 - Discuss a phase — capture implementation decisions before planning begins
- 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
- 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
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
- 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