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* fix(#4186): anchored status vocabulary, record-session arg guard, recount pin Three defects from #4186: 1. normalizeStateStatus ran a first-match-wins SUBSTRING chain over the free-prose body Status field, so prose merely mentioning a status word was silently rewritten to a credible wrong token (a .planning/ path in Italian prose -> status: planning; verifica -> verifying; completezza -> completed). Recognition is now an ANCHORED whole-field match against a declared vocabulary (STATUS_EXACT_TOKENS + STATUS_ANCHORED_PATTERNS, state-document.cts) — case/whitespace-tolerant, branch-order artifacts preserved (Planning complete -> planning; Phase complete — ready for verification -> verifying). The recorded lenient fallback (#3873 row 26) stands: unrecognized prose passes through verbatim. Read-side consumers (W011, statusline) ride the same function. 2. The progress recount skew (stray *-SUMMARY.md inflating completed_plans) is already dead on next via #1988/PR #2016 (countMatchedSummaries pairs summaries to plans) — verified live and pinned with regression rows composed against the #4129/#4359 ratchet. 3. state record-session with no args executed and wrote STATE.md; it now errors like state update (stopped-at or resume-file required), handler- side so SDK callers are covered too. Four tests pinning the bare-call write are updated to the new contract. * fix(#4186): update status pins to the anchored vocabulary contract Bench round 1 follow-ups: - Legacy bare 'Milestone complete' kept as reader-side vocabulary (ADR-2207 removed the writers, not recognition of legacy files). - state.test pins updated: 'Paused at Plan 3' and round-trip 'Executing Plan 5' were pins of the substring guessing itself — the round-trip now uses the real handler form 'Executing Phase 5'. - record-session no-op/no-fields tests repurposed to the usage-error contract (CLI + SDK-level ExitError), byte-unchanged assertions kept. - statusline tests repinned: vocabulary values collapse to keywords; narratives render the documented first-word fallback instead of a guessed token. Hook doc comment updated to match. - docs-guard exempt baseline: state.test.cjs now cites docs/CLI-TOOLS.md. - docs/CLI-TOOLS.md: record-session signature notes the required flag. * fix(#4186): repair a dangling sentence in the schema docstring * test(#4186): bound the completed_plans scan regex (#2128 class) * chore(#4186): backfill changeset PR number --------- Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
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.