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* test(#2966): loop QA walk — drive real scenarios across all five loop steps Adds a headless walk that carries accumulating project state across discuss -> plan -> execute -> verify -> ship against one temp project, layered over the existing tests/helpers.cjs runGsdTools substrate. Findings carry severity. A violation breaks a stated contract and fails the build; a smell is legal under today's implementation but structurally questionable, is recorded, and never reddens CI. Without that split an oracle set derived from current behavior can only ever confirm current behavior -- the harness could not say "this works and is still wrong". The end-to-end test asserts the walk produces at least one smell: a QA harness that reports nothing on a first run against a real engine is far more likely mis-specified than the engine is perfect. It deliberately does not pin smell ids or counts, which would re-freeze current behavior. First run against the real engine: 0 violations, 3 smell classes -- init returns agents_dir outside the project tree; smart-entry emits prose unconditionally so routing cannot be asserted; state-snapshot reports a missing STATE.md through a payload key with exit 0. Also fixes tests/fixtures/index.cjs: createFixture with git:true and planning:false staged nothing, so the commit failed with "nothing to commit". That combination was unreachable until greenfield needed it. Extends RULESET.TESTS.feedback-loop-convergence from estimation to the loop itself. Design lock: docs/adr/2966-loop-qa-walk.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(#2966): wire fault injection, make perturbations discriminating Independent review found tests/qa/mutations.cjs entirely unwired: 462 lines exercised only by their own unit tests, with no mutation hook in the scenario DSL and no scenario applying one, while the module header and the ADR described fault injection in the present tense. Dead code documented as live. Adds a `mutate` step field, three perturbation scenarios, and a wiring detector: a self-test scenario whose expectations are known-false and which MUST fail. The previous anti-vacuity check asserted only that the walk produced a smell, which passes on well-known engine behavior regardless of whether the harness wiring works. First perturbation attempt produced zero signal -- progress does not structurally parse ROADMAP.md, so a corrupted roadmap sailed through. A perturbation that cannot fail is the same defect in a new costume. Probes now target roadmap get-phase, and each mutated step runs a clean baseline first so `mutationObserved` records whether the corruption changed anything at all. Also clears four review findings: classify() returned PROSE for exit-0 with empty stdout; `warnings` was structurally unpopulatable on the success path (execFileSync discards it) and is now documented as error-path-only; read-only-idempotence passed vacuously when asked to check idempotence without the data to check it; the ADR miscounted the oracles. Discrimination matrix across 8 mutations x 6 commands: bom, duplicate-phase-id and escaped-pipes are absorbed silently by every probed surface, and progress / smart-entry / roadmap validate never reacted to any mutation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(#2966): add path-containment guard for scenario-supplied targets Security review found scenario-supplied paths joined to the temp project with no containment check. step.mutate.target and agent.write keys were validated only as non-empty strings, so a target of ../../../../etc/hosts reached fs.unlinkSync / fs.writeFileSync / fs.symlinkSync outside the project. The symlink mutation was worst: it read the traversed file, wrote a sibling copy, deleted the original and symlinked it back. Not exploitable today -- all shipped scenarios target .planning/ROADMAP.md and scenarios are repo-committed, not runtime input. Fixed anyway: it is a live primitive any future scenario or copied helper can reach. Adds tests/qa/paths.cjs with resolveWithin(): rejects absolute paths, NUL bytes and empty input, normalizes separators unconditionally, and requires containment by path segment so a sibling like <base>-evil is not treated as inside. Non-existent targets resolve via nearest existing ancestor rather than falling back to a lexical compare. Scenario load now rejects traversing or absolute targets up front. oracles.cjs previously carried its own copy of the containment logic; both now share paths.cjs, since a duplicated containment check is exactly the divergence class this repo calls out. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(#2966): complete trajectory corpus, report emission, boundary-aware oracle Adds the remaining trajectories and drives all 11 mutations end-to-end. 20 scenarios, 72 steps, 0 violations, 25 smells. Adds qa-report.json with per-step verdicts and a copy-pasteable repro command, plus --keep / GSD_QA_KEEP=1 to preserve a failing tree. A repro line for a tree that was not preserved is marked NOT RUNNABLE rather than emitting a command pointing at a deleted directory. monotonic-progress is now boundary-aware. Two scenarios had been trimmed to stop the oracle complaining at a milestone rollover, which destroys the signal the trajectory exists to produce. Evidence: counters legitimately reset to zero at milestone complete, but the payload milestone_version lags until a new ROADMAP.md is written. So the oracle now scopes by milestone plus workstream, keeps a same-scope decrease as a violation, and records a boundary crossing as a smell. Both scenarios walk the real boundary again. Standards review fixes: oracle findings now carry a structured subject so tests assert on typed fields instead of substring-matching the free-form detail string, resolveWithin throws a typed EPATHESCAPE error, and the absolute-path predicate scenario.cjs had re-implemented now comes from paths.cjs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(#2966): fix silently-vacuous fixtures and guard the class Every fixture carried its #2371 provenance comment BEFORE the frontmatter block, and extractFrontmatter returns {} when anything precedes the opening ---. So every scenario reading status/phase/name was operating on an empty object and reporting green. Nine fixtures repositioned; the comment stays, it just moves below the closing ---. Both UAT fixtures lacked a parser-recognized result block, so evaluateUatPassed saw checks.length===0 and could never return passed:true. The uat-fail-then-remediate scenario could not have proven a remediation. Its expect block only inspected blockers, which is empty before AND after, which is why the corpus never noticed. Both fixtures now carry real result blocks and the scenario asserts passed and no_uat_artifacts on each side of the flip. The actual deliverable is the guard: a fixture-integrity block asserting every fixture with a frontmatter shape parses to a non-empty object, that every fixture carries its provenance marker, and that the two UAT fixtures produce opposite verdicts through the real evaluateUatPassed. The first guard written required --- at byte 0, which would never have fired on the regression it exists to prevent; it was rewritten and proven by deliberately re-breaking a fixture. No engine defect here. no_uat_artifacts means no parsed check items, not no UAT files, and it was reporting correctly on fixtures that had none. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(#2966): make the walk report — smell ratchet, baseline, CI job The harness computed smells into a gitignored qa-report.json that nothing read. In CI it surfaced nothing at all: violations failed the build, but the half of the tool that says "this works and is still wrong" was inert. A QA tool nobody hears is decoration. Adds a ratchet on the same idiom this repo already uses three times over (the regression-test-name allowlist, the emitted-drift acks, the size baseline): a committed smell-baseline.json, per-PR acknowledgment fragments under tests/qa/smell-acks/, and a ratchet script wired into CI. The design invariant is preserved exactly. A smell still never fails a build on its own merits. What fails is an UNACKNOWLEDGED NEW smell -- the absence of a decision -- leaving an author two honest exits: fix it, or record a fragment with a real reason. An empty reason is rejected. The baseline is shrink-only, so a fixed smell must prune its entry. Violations remain unacknowledgeable. Fingerprints are composed only from stable fields (oracle id, scenario, argv, subject discriminator) -- never temp paths, timestamps or counts. Verified byte-identical across two runs in separate temp dirs; an unstable fingerprint would have false-positived every CI run. CI gains a qa-loop-walk job that runs the suite and the ratchet, uploads the report with `if: always()` (it matters most when it failed), and renders a summary a reviewer reads without downloading anything. Also fixes the report runner invoking main() unconditionally on require, so importing it double-ran every scenario and clobbered its own output. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(#2966): every smell terminates in a defect or a fixed detector The baseline accepted a smell with a free-text reason. That is a mechanism for designing smells in -- an allowlist nobody revisits. The harness is brand new, so nothing it found is inherited legacy; every finding is a FIRST finding. Each must now terminate in exactly one of two states: REAL -> an assigned defect, entry carries the issue number FALSE POSITIVE -> the detector is wrong and gets fixed, never baselined There is no third "accepted with a good explanation" state, so the ratchet now requires a positive-integer `issue` on every entry. A reason may remain as a human note but can never substitute. `--update` refuses to invent issue numbers: a new smell is written with `issue: null` and a TODO, and the next plain run rejects it, forcing triage rather than accumulation. Working the 21 existing entries through that rule found 16 were my own detectors being wrong: value-hygiene (10) flagged $.agents_dir, a field whose entire contract is to point at the install tree outside any project. Fixed with a leaf-key allowlist of contractually-external fields, verified as the only such key in the init payload. Genuinely unexpected out-of-project paths still smell. monotonic-progress (6) fired on legitimate boundary crossings -- milestone v1.0 to v2.0, workstream beta to alpha -- and on one payload carrying no scope fields at all, where a change cannot even be known. Scope changes now reset silently and scope-less observations are skipped. The same-scope decrease remains a violation; that is the real invariant and is regression- guarded. The five survivors are real and now tracked: soft-error-exit-zero (#2980), untyped-success (#2979). Baseline 25 -> 5. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(#2966): keep the ratchet out of the tarball, unpin the qa CI job The remote matrix returned failed -- 3 unique failures, identical on node22 and node24, both root causes in this branch's own diff. The ratchet lives under scripts/, which ships in the npm tarball, and it requires three modules under tests/, which does not. In a published install it is MODULE_NOT_FOUND at load. This is exactly the class the #2858 guard was added to catch, and it caught it. Fixed the way #2858 fixed the same shape for its own repo-only CI script: a targeted files[] negation, so the ratchet stays in the repo for CI and out of the tarball. Not solved by moving or inlining the required modules -- the ratchet must keep using the same code the harness uses, or the two drift. Verified both directions: the script is no longer in the pack list, and build-hooks.js, fix-slash-commands.cjs and gen-capability-registry.cjs are all still shipped. Over-negating there would have broken installs, since bin/install.js requires them. The qa-loop-walk job also carried CI_REBASE_BASE_SHA copied from a neighbouring job without the paired GSD_EMITTED_BASE, which the #2854 invariant forbids by name: diverging them makes the differential compare a tree against a baseline from a different commit. The job runs only the qa suite and the ratchet and invokes no emitted-attribution test, so it needs no rebase-pinned base at all -- the step was removed rather than paired. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(#2966): stop monotonic-progress going blind on scope-less payloads The full remote suite caught a false NEGATIVE I introduced while fixing a false positive. Silencing the boundary-crossing noise had made the oracle skip ANY observation lacking milestone fields -- so a minimal payload like {total_summaries: n} produced no violation at all, and the oracle stopped catching the exact defect it exists to catch. For a QA tool that is strictly worse than the noise it replaced. Scope is only indeterminate when the two observations DISAGREE about having it: both scoped, same scope, decrease -> VIOLATION both scoped, different scope -> reset silently NEITHER scoped, decrease -> VIOLATION (the regression) mixed -> skip the comparison Implementing the mixed case surfaced a second blind spot: advancing the reference point on a skipped pair lets a scope-less observation sitting between two same-scope ones mask a real decrease. Mixed now leaves the reference untouched. All four branches carry explicit coverage; only one did before, which is why this shipped. The self-test that failed was right and the code was wrong, so the code moved. Corpus behavior is unchanged: still 5 smells, 0 new, 0 stale, 0 violations. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <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-* 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 the single authoritative statement of the legacy range.
docs/contributor-standards.mdreferences it rather than restating it, so the two cannot drift.
Two other zero-padded files look legacy but are not: 0174-retire-gsd-sdk-package-boundary.md (issue #174) and 0656-research-module-seam.md (issue #656) are mis-padded modern ADRs — modern, issue-numbered files whose four-digit padding is a mistake. They are NOT part of the legacy sequential set above and are not "old local-compute numbering" residue.
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 (55)
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-2619 | Observability and shareable diagnostics — wire the dispatch seam, add the outbound trust boundary | 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-2782 | Reviewer Lane — the cross-AI reviewer handoff becomes a declared capability surface | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2966 | Test the five-step loop as a continuous walk, not isolated points | 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 |
71 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).