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* test(#3894): research_before_questions must resolve globally and order quick.md (failing first) * fix(#3894): quick path honors workflow.research_before_questions; key resolves from global defaults Two layers, one key. The quick workflow ran its discussion phase before its research phase unconditionally — neither quick.md nor its steps ever read workflow.research_before_questions, though the key is documented, schema-registered, /gsd-settings-writable, and honored by /gsd-discuss-phase and /gsd-new-project. A gray-area answer given without research is then written to <quick_id>-CONTEXT.md as a locked decision downstream agents are told not to revisit — an evidence-free choice made unfalsifiable (the reporter's #3714 misresolution). - quick.md Step 4 now carries the same research-before-questions check the two honoring paths make: when enabled, research-phase executes before discussion-phase; false/unset keeps the written order. Both sections stay section-manifest gated. - src/config-loader.cts forwarded workflow.post_planning_gaps from ~/.gsd/defaults.json but silently dropped this key — same file, same nesting, one resolved and one didn't. Now forwarded with the same flat + nested-alias fallback shape, added to the resolution-keys lockstep canary and the #3532 shadowed-warning set (nested alias reporting generalized over both keys). Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: quick.md — #3894: +Step 4 ordering rule (the research-before-questions check the discuss-phase and new-project paths already make); a real behavioral gate, not incidental bloat. * fix(#3894): review fold-ins — gate the CONTEXT.md reference, colon slash-forms - quick/steps/research-phase.md directed the researcher subagent to read <quick_id>-CONTEXT.md under DISCUSS_MODE with no existence hedge — but under the new ordering (research BEFORE discussion) the file cannot exist yet when the researcher is dispatched. The reference now says read-only-if-present with the #3894 reason; the alignment purpose still applies on the default ordering. - quick.md's new rule used the hyphen slash forms (/gsd-discuss-phase, /gsd-new-project); source artifacts under gsd-core/workflows must author the colon form the install-time converters key on — the same file already uses /gsd:new-project and /gsd:quick elsewhere. * docs(#3894): planning-config row names the flat CONFIG_DEFAULTS alias config-field-docs requires every CONFIG_DEFAULTS key to appear in the doc; the row documented the canonical namespaced form only. Adds the same alias sentence post_planning_gaps's row carries, plus the #3894 quick-path note. * chore(#3894): changeset fragment (pr number backfilled after PR creation) * chore(#3894): backfill changeset PR number (4047) --------- 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.