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* fix(#3726): require --confirm before milestone complete mutates `milestone complete <version>` is a one-way door — ROADMAP.md and REQUIREMENTS.md archived, every phase directory in the milestone MOVED, STATE.md rewritten — and ran unconditionally on first invocation through every invocation path, including `query milestone.complete <version>`, whose `query` meta-prefix reads as a read-only namespace but performs no filtering (#167's invocation-compatibility shim + #3243's dotted-form normalization). The gate lives on the destructive command itself, not on the `query` prefix (the prefix is an intentional invocation mechanism, not a permission boundary — restricting it would break dozens of shipped workflow callers). Without --confirm and without --dry-run the command now refuses via error() before reading anything beyond its arg checks, so an unconfirmed invocation is a guaranteed no-op on disk. --dry-run still previews with no confirmation needed and is now documented in the usage block (it was only documented for the sibling archive-quick). --force keeps its narrow meaning — bypassing the TRUNCATED-scope and unstarted-phase guards — and does not double as the mutation opt-in. --confirm follows the existing `phases clear --confirm` idiom in the same module. complete-milestone.md's two invocations pass --confirm (the workflow has gathered explicit user intent by that step). Existing tests get --confirm appended — pre-change behavior is exactly confirmed behavior — and a #3726 regression block covers: refusal + full-tree byte-identity on both invocation forms, --force not satisfying the gate, --dry-run still passing without confirmation, and --confirm proceeding. The refusal tests fail against pre-fix code (negative control run). Fixes #3726 * docs(#3726): document the --confirm requirement in CLI-TOOLS and COMMANDS Cross-AI review of the fix diff (codex, pre-create) caught three shipped doc sites still instructing the now-refused bare invocation: the CLI-TOOLS.md milestone-complete synopsis + flag table, and COMMANDS.md's two guard-override instructions (`--force` alone now refuses without --confirm). Localized CLI-TOOLS copies already lag the English synopsis (no --force/--dry-run either) and follow the translation pipeline, not this fix. * chore(#3726): set changeset fragment pr to 3774 * test(#3726): confirm-gate CI repairs — QA scenario caller + growth ack Two CI reds from the --confirm gate, both this branch's own misses: - tests/qa/scenarios/milestone-rollover.json invoked `milestone complete 1.0 --force` as a JSON arg-array fixture — a caller shape the test sweep (which grepped runGsdTools/runSdkQuery in tests/*.cjs) never enumerated. Adds --confirm; the scenario's boundary-crossing contract is otherwise untouched. - complete-milestone.md's +420-byte --confirm note trips the emitted-attribution growth ratchet. Acknowledged as a #3726 append to the existing complete-milestone.md entry in 3409-unreachable-guard-arms.json (two ack sources may never name the same path, per that fragment's own precedent). Local: lint-emitted-drift-ack ok; loop-walk.qa 115/115 green sandboxed. * docs(#3726): CLI-TOOLS.md guard-override sentences say --force --confirm Review Major 1: the truncated-window and unstarted-phase guard paragraphs still told the reader to "Pass `--force` to override", which now refuses (--force alone does not satisfy the confirmation gate), while the flag table 470 lines later said the opposite. Mirror the docs/COMMANDS.md pair so the file no longer contradicts itself. * docs(#3726): synopsis renders --confirm and --dry-run as alternatives Review Nit 1: `milestone complete <version> --confirm [--dry-run]` read as "a dry run still needs --confirm", the opposite of AC 3. Render the pair as `(--confirm | --dry-run)` in the CLI-TOOLS.md synopsis and the usage docblock, and let the flag rows carry the rule. * test(#3726): pass --confirm in base-added milestone fixtures; re-file the growth ack Rebase onto next (26 commits) surfaced three tests the gate now refuses: the #3685 write-flag contract pair in tests/milestone.test.cjs and the `milestone complete` boundary fixture in tests/state-contract.test.cjs all invoke the command bare. Each now passes --confirm (a mutating run is exactly what they assert on). The +420 byte complete-milestone.md growth ack rode on 3409-unreachable-guard-arms.json, which #3078 swept from next as fully spent — hence the modify/delete conflict. Re-filed under a fresh fragment named for this issue, never resurrecting the swept one. * test(#3726): pin the present-but-falsy arm of the confirmation gate Review Minor 1: the boundary triple covered absent and present but not present-but-falsy. The gate is an exact-token match, so --confirm=false and --confirm=0 refuse today — pinned (canonical + query forms, whole .planning/ tree byte-identical) so a future `=`-aware or prefix-matching parser cannot silently turn --confirm=false into a confirmed run of an irreversible command. * test(#3726): drop --confirm from dry-run-only invocations Review Nit 2: --confirm was mass-appended to 14 pre-existing --dry-run invocations that never needed it, so each stopped standing as incidental proof that a preview needs no confirmation. Reverted to the pre-PR form; the dedicated AC-3 test carries the explicit assertion. * docs(#3726): sync the localized CLI-TOOLS synopsis with the confirm gate REQ-I18N-02 (docs/features/internationalized-documentation.md) requires translations to stay synchronized with the English source. The four localized CLI-TOOLS.md guides still advertised a bare `milestone complete <version>`, which now exits 1. Render the English synopsis verbatim — `(--confirm | --dry-run)` plus the `[--force]` and `[--archive-quick]` flags the translations had also fallen behind on. * test(#3726): drop --confirm from the remaining preview-only invocations Round 2 reverted the --confirm appends on --dry-run-only invocations in tests/milestone.test.cjs, but four more sat in two files the sweep missed: tests/milestone-archive.test.cjs (three) and tests/milestone-window-single-owner.test.cjs (one). Each is a preview run whose whole purpose is to document that a preview mutates nothing, so `--dry-run ... --confirm` contradicted the semantics the test exists to pin. Dropping the token restores each as incidental proof that a preview needs no confirmation; the dedicated AC-3 test keeps the explicit assertion. No assertion added, relaxed, or removed — the change is four tokens. * chore(#3726): migrate the emitted-drift ack from a fragment to a commit trailer #3954 (ADR-3942) moved emitted-drift acknowledgments out of tests/emitted-drift-acks/ and into git commit trailers, and the fragment directory no longer exists on next. The reason this PR's fragment carried moves verbatim into the Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth trailer on this commit; the fragment file is removed rather than resurrected. Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: complete-milestone.md — #3726: +420 bytes (40186 -> 40606). The archive_milestone step's two `milestone complete` invocations now pass the required --confirm flag (the command refuses to mutate without it — the archive is irreversible), with a note explaining the flag and pointing at --dry-run for previews. Deliberate runtime-loaded workflow text for the new gate, not converter drift. * fix(#3726): name --confirm in the version-required refusal The documented arg-discovery path (gsd-tools.cjs top-level usage: invoke the command without args and the error lists what is required) stopped at `version required for milestone complete (e.g., v1.0)` — one required argument short. Discovering --confirm took a second round trip through the gate. The refusal now reads `… — and --confirm to mutate`, pinned by a test that also asserts the version-less invocation leaves .planning/ untouched. * test(#3726): pin the milestone complete docs against a silent regression The changeset is `type: Fixed`, which the docs-required lint exempts, so nothing in CI would notice a later edit that reinstated the bare-`--force` override prose or dropped `--confirm` from the synopsis. Four tests in tests/milestone.test.cjs now pin: the synopsis line in docs/CLI-TOOLS.md and its four localized mirrors; the `--confirm` flag row; both guard-override instructions in docs/CLI-TOOLS.md and docs/COMMANDS.md, by guard name (a substring match on each instruction's `--force --confirm` text); and — as an identity ratchet over the milestone-complete sections — every `--force` sentence or clause that lacks `--confirm`, so a new bare instruction in its own sentence or clause fails whatever its wording. Named residual: a bare instruction spliced into the same clause as a compliant one coalesces with it and passes the ratchet; the by-name pins are what keep the four known instructions from losing the pairing that way. The file is registered in scripts/docs-guard-registry.cjs so the pin runs on the PR that changes those docs, not only after merge. --------- Co-authored-by: CI Rebase Check <ci@gsd-redux> Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
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.