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* enhance(#4139): Phase 8 — the toggle becomes discoverable, and the ledger closes ADR-4139's final phase. workflow.compact_content already defaulted to false (Phase 1's buildNewProjectConfig hardcoded default), but nothing surfaced it: /gsd-new-project never asked, and /gsd-settings/config had no toggle path for an already-initialized project — config-set/config-get were the only route. new-project.md gains a fourth question in the existing Round 2 AskUserQuestion array (grouped with the other general-workflow-behavior toggles, not the per-agent capability questions above it) and threads compact_content into the config-new-project CLI JSON literal. settings.md mirrors the exact pattern every other non-capability workflow.* key already follows: read_current bullet, question block, update_config write, the safe-merge non-capability-keys list, save_as_defaults, and the confirm summary table — seven edits, zero new src/*.cts code, since Phase 1's merge logic is a generic passthrough. Its success_criteria question-count ("24 settings") is bumped to 25 to match the now-25-entry main AskUserQuestion batch. settings-advanced.md deliberately does NOT get a duplicate question: no other boolean toggle in this repo is asked in both settings.md and settings-advanced.md, and there's no reason to start with this one. docs/CONFIGURATION.md, docs/USER-GUIDE.md, and a new docs/features/4139-compact- content.md fragment (regenerated into docs/FEATURES.md) document the toggle. ADR-4139 itself: Status flips Proposed -> Accepted, the acceptance-criteria section becomes a guard ledger — a 13-row table covering all 12 of #4139's original checkboxes plus the shipped-content guard criterion, each with real evidence (the merged PR that satisfied it, fetched via `gh issue view --json closedByPullRequestsReferences` rather than asserted from phase numbers) — and both "Open questions for the implementation phases" are resolved rather than left dangling: discuss-phase was never converted to spine+detail shape (verified: no detail/ subdir exists) — a genuine gap, not a reasoned decline; the disjointness check is confirmed line-based by reading compact-content-split.cjs's normalizeNonTrivialLines directly. Orthogonal review (isolated Standards/Spec code-review + security-review sub-agents) found and this fixes two real defects: the changeset fragment's body didn't match CONTRIBUTING.md's single em-dash-sentence format (was multi-sentence prose naming implementation file paths); and settings.md's own success_criteria still said "24 settings" after the new question pushed the main batch to 25. Also fixed, found by the Spec pass while confirming commands/gsd/settings.md correctly needed no sync edit: that file and its skills/gsd-settings/SKILL.md twin both still described "Interactive 5-question prompt (model, research, plan_check, verifier, branching)", stale since long before this phase (the batch has had far more than 5 questions for a while) — replaced with a description that names the current set without hardcoding a count that will drift again. gsd-test (real run, sha 1da78fe2) caught a third real regression the local sweep missed: new-project.md is a registered spine+detail split for Phase 4's token-reduction benchmark (scripts/benchmark-compact-content.cjs), and the new question's +167 tokens drifted the committed baseline (tests/fixtures/compact-content-benchmark-baseline.json). The benchmark itself is designed never to fail CI on drift, but the test asserting the COMMITTED baseline is currently non-drifted correctly caught it. Regenerated via `node scripts/benchmark-compact-content.cjs --write`; re-verified --check now reports "up to date" and the test file passes 27/27. Closes #4408. Closes #4139. Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: new-project.md — new 4th Round-2 AskUserQuestion entry (Compact Content, #4139) plus the config-new-project CLI JSON field and explanatory sentence; a new opt-in toggle needs new prose. Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: settings.md — new workflow.compact_content read_current bullet, question block, update_config write, safe-merge key, save_as_defaults field, and confirm summary row (the same seven-edit pattern every other non-capability workflow.* toggle already follows), plus the 24->25 success_criteria count fix found in review. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(#4408): backfill changeset PR number pr:0 -> pr:4587 now that gh pr create has returned the real number. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local> Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
GSD Core
Git. Ship. Done.
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A light-weight meta-prompting, context engineering, and spec-driven development system for Claude Code, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, Kimi CLI, Kilo, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, and more.
What is GSD Core
GSD Core is a context-engineering and spec-driven development framework that drives AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity CLI, Kimi CLI, Copilot, Cursor, and more) through a disciplined phase loop. It solves context rot — the quality degradation that accumulates as an AI fills its context window — by running all heavy research, planning, and execution work in fresh-context subagents while keeping your main session lean.
How it works
Each milestone repeats the same five-step loop, one phase at a time:
- Discuss — capture implementation decisions before anything is planned
- Plan — research, decompose, and verify the plan fits a fresh context window
- Execute — run plans in parallel waves; each executor starts with a clean 200k-token context
- Verify — walk through what was built; diagnose and fix before declaring done
- Ship — create the PR, archive the phase, repeat for the next one
Quickstart
npx @opengsd/gsd-core@latest
The installer prompts for your runtime (Claude Code, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, Kimi CLI, Kilo, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, and more) and whether to install globally or locally. The installer is required for cross-runtime compatibility — do not copy files from agents/ or commands/ directly.
On another runtime or without Node.js? See Install on your runtime.
Once installed, start a new project or onboard an existing repo:
/gsd-new-project # greenfield project
/gsd-onboard # existing codebase
New here? Follow Your first project for a guided walkthrough from install to first shipped phase, or Onboarding an existing codebase for brownfield setup.
Documentation
What's new in 1.7.0 → docs/whats-new-1.7.0.md
Tutorials — learning by doing:
How-to guides — task-focused recipes:
Reference — authoritative facts:
Explanation — concepts and design decisions:
Full index: docs/README.md. Other languages: 日本語 · 한국어 · Português · 简体中文.
Why it works
Most AI-coding setups fail at scale because context bloat silently degrades output quality, there is no shared memory between sessions, and nothing verifies that code actually works. GSD Core solves all three: heavy work runs in fresh subagents, structured artifacts like STATE.md and CONTEXT.md survive session boundaries, and the verify step walks through what was built and generates fix plans before a phase is declared done. See docs/explanation/context-engineering.md for the full reasoning.
Troubleshooting? See docs/how-to/recover-and-troubleshoot.md.
Community
| Project | Platform |
|---|---|
| gsd-opencode | Original OpenCode port |
| Discord | Community support |
Star History
License
MIT License. See LICENSE for details.
Claude Code is powerful. GSD Core makes it reliable.