Tom Boucher 389bc86e02 enhance(#3883): route every slug call site through its canonical owner (#3896)
* docs(#3883): correct section 8.3 against the tree

I wrote this section in Phase 0 stating rules I had not executed against the
tree. Measured at 832dcbb75, three statements are wrong.

The slug count is 11 across 5 files, not 13; two of the thirteen were an
unrelated tokenizer regex. The divergence is real and reproduced.

resolveRuntime reads no install marker at all and has no cache; PR #3382,
cited as prior art for that rung, is closed unmerged.

The Codex sandbox is still a hand-maintained subset map with a silent
read-only fallback, and validate agents checks file presence only -- both
halves of that claim are false.

The shortFormToId rule is accurate. The guard roster names no casualty for
this rule.

Section 8.3 is therefore a work list, not a conformance check.

Refs #3883

* test(#3883): failing-first rows for slug re-implementation divergence

Refs #3883

* feat(#3883): route every slug call site through its canonical owner

Migrated commands.cts:209, init.cts:176/1935/1957/3109, phase-id.cts:229/380, phase-locator.cts:269, workstream-name-policy.cts:75 to generateSlugInternal (core-utils.cts:107).

Declared different: gsd2-import.cts:97 (no truncation), active-workstream-store.cts:97 (fixed ASCII env-key domain, already matches).

Fixed a latent circular-require bug: core-utils.cts top-level destructured comparePhaseNum/scopeToPhase from phase-id.cjs; switched both sides of the new circular require to lazy function-body requires.

Refs #3883

* fix(#3883): restore per-site truncation contracts broken by the slug consolidation

Refs #3883

* fix(#3883): close review findings — changeset, miscounts, loose rows, cyclic destructure

Refs #3883

* docs(#3883): correct the same slug miscount in the Context table

Section 8.3's rule text was corrected to 11 copies across 7 files; the Context
table above it still carried the original 13 across 5. Same wrong claim, second
location, both mine.

Refs #3883

* chore(#3883): backfill changeset PR number

Refs #3883

* test(#3883): keep the core-utils mutation shard inside its time budget

PR #3896's Stryker (core-utils) shard was cancelled at the 15-minute
shard cap. Stryker's command-runner bills one `node --test <file>`
invocation as a single unit costing whatever the file's slowest run
costs, re-run once per mutant (documented in
tests/state-contract.test.cjs's header, #2790 precedent). A3/A5 drove
every CLI-reachable slug site through runGsdTools (a real child-process
spawn per call, ~85-170ms each across ~70 calls), accounting for ~7.1s
of the file's ~7.9s wall time.

commands.cts:cmdGenerateSlug and init.cts:cmdInitExecutePhase/
cmdInitPhaseOp/cmdInitProgress are plain functions reachable in-process
from the built gsd-core/bin/lib/*.cjs, so this calls them directly
instead of spawning gsd-tools, capturing their fd-1 JSON output with the
bug #1008 fs.writeSync-mock pattern already used in tests/io.test.cjs
and tests/init.test.cjs. A hermetic-env helper reproduces the isolation
runGsdTools's { HOME: tmpDir } + testEnvBase() gave the child process.

File wall time drops from ~7.97s to ~1.1s (246/246 passing, same
coverage), well inside the 15-minute cap even at hundreds of mutants.

Refs #3883

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-26 16:03:11 -04:00

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.

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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, 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:

  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, 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
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License

MIT License. See LICENSE for details.


Claude Code is powerful. GSD Core makes it reliable.

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