Tom Boucher 34bc096ec2 feat(#1451): wire gsd capability install/update/remove/list/disable/enable management CLI (#1457)
* feat(#1451): wire gsd capability install/update/remove/list/disable/enable CLI

ADR-1244 D5/D6: the management command was built as a library (capability-lifecycle.cjs
install/upgrade/remove + capability-ledger.cjs) across Phases 3-5 but never wired to a
user-facing command — gsd-tools.cjs 'capability' only handled state/set. This adds the
six subcommands, dispatching to the existing lifecycle/ledger:

- install <spec> [--integrity] [--scope global|project] [--yes] [--shared-file <rel>]…
- update [<id>|--all] [--scope] [--yes] [--shared-file]  (re-resolves recorded source)
- remove <id> [--purge-data] [--scope]  (first-party rejected)
- list [--json]  (first-party + overlay, both scopes, JSON array)
- disable|enable <id>  (activation-state alias of capability set --off/--on)

Scope→runtimeDir mapping matches capability-loader exactly (global=$GSD_HOME||home,
project=project root; caps at <root>/.gsd/capabilities/<id>, ledger at <root>/.gsd-capabilities.json).
Consent is non-interactive: --yes grants; without it an executable install aborts after
printing the disclosure and writes nothing. Best-effort reconcile before each mutation.

Tests: tests/capability-cli.test.cjs (20 behavioral, real resolver via local specs,
GSD_HOME-sandboxed) — install consent/block/usage matrix, list, update round-trip,
remove round-trip + first-party guard, disable/enable, unknown subcommand.
Docs: docs/reference/gsd-capability-command.md reconciled to the real surface
(ledger paths, --shared-file, consent model, disable mechanism, outdated marked planned);
docs/COMMANDS.md gains the gsd capability entry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#1451): resolve adversarial-review findings + root-cause the --raw silent-output bug

Adversarial-review (Codex) fixes:
- capReadStrict passes a malformed strict_known_registries value THROUGH so the trust gate
  fail-closes on it (was silently downgrading to permissive)
- installCapability/upgradeCapability gain an expectedId guard + first-party-id rejection
  (capability-lifecycle.cts): an overlay can't shadow a first-party id, and 'update <id>' can't
  act on a different id if the recorded source was retargeted
- capability update: prints the consent disclosure, exits non-zero on --all partial failure,
  no longer masks the resolved id
- capability remove: ledger-first ordering so an overlay is removable even if it shadows a
  first-party name; first-party guard only fires for ids not in the ledger
- gsd-capability-command.md: disable/enable doc corrected (registry-known ids; overlay toggle
  not yet wired through this path)

Silent-output bug (root cause, not waved off as pre-existing):
- captureStdoutSyncWrites buffered fd-1 output and DISCARDED it on the throw path — any --raw
  command that emitted a result/error envelope then threw (to set a non-zero exit) lost ALL of
  stdout. Now it flushes the captured buffer before re-throwing (exit code preserved).
- cmdCapabilitySet threw via process.exit() (bypassing the capture wrapper entirely); now throws
  ExitError so the wrapper flushes — matches the repo's no-process-exit architecture.
- Regression test: capability disable <unknown> --raw must emit the JSON error envelope on stdout.

Verified: capability suite 165/165, @file/json-errors/phase 183/183, lint clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#1451): address adversarial-review R2 — shared-file confinement, MCP no-clobber, config fail-closed

- confinedSharedFile(): realpath-confine every shared-config write/strip to the scope root (mirrors
  safeRmUnder), so a --shared-file whose parent is a symlink escaping the scope can't write outside it.
- mcpServers shared edits: never overwrite an UNOWNED entry — a name collision with the user's (or
  another capability's) server is skipped, so install/remove can't silently clobber user MCP config
  (hooks already append; the map-keyed mcpServers path was the gap).
- capReadStrict: a PRESENT-but-unparseable .planning/config.json now fails CLOSED (lockdown) instead
  of silently downgrading the strict_known_registries policy to permissive.
- Tests: symlink-escape shared-file writes nothing outside scope; colliding user mcpServers entry
  preserved; unparseable config blocks an external install. capability suite 83/83, lint clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#1451): address code-review — aborted-status robustness + coverage + project-scoped strict doc

- install/update: handle an 'aborted' result independently of the requiresConsent flag so it can never
  fall through to the generic 'blocked: unknown reason' arm (aborted always means consent-needed per
  the lifecycle contract; latent today, hardened for future status additions).
- Clarify capResolveScope comment (project scope === already-resolved cwd) and document that
  strict_known_registries is a PROJECT-scoped policy (read regardless of --scope; no machine-wide
  allowlist) in gsd-capability-command.md.
- Tests: update --all over an empty ledger returns an empty result set (exit 0); a flag value that
  looks like another flag (--integrity --scope) is rejected, not swallowed. CLI suite 33/33, lint clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(#1451): FEATURES.md entry #147 + Added/Fixed changesets for the capability CLI

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(#1451): backfill changeset PR number → #1457

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-19 12:02:36 -04:00

GSD Core

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A light-weight meta-prompting, context engineering, and spec-driven development system for Claude Code, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Kimi CLI, Kilo, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, and more.

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What is GSD Core

GSD Core is a context-engineering and spec-driven development framework that drives AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini 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:

  1. Discuss — capture implementation decisions before anything is planned
  2. Plan — research, decompose, and verify the plan fits a fresh context window
  3. Execute — run plans in parallel waves; each executor starts with a clean 200k-token context
  4. Verify — walk through what was built; diagnose and fix before declaring done
  5. 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, Gemini 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 your first project:

/gsd-new-project

New here? Follow Your first project for a guided walkthrough from install to first shipped phase.


Documentation

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

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License

MIT License. See LICENSE for details.


Claude Code is powerful. GSD Core makes it reliable.

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