Tom Boucher 49b60070a0 fix(#3503): derive the code-review diff base from GSD's own commit scopes, not prose mentions (#3526)
* fix(#3503): derive the code-review diff base from GSD's own commit scopes, not prose mentions

The #2989/#3191 anchor ('[Pp]hase N' + POSIX boundary) still resolved the
phase diff base ~4 phases early on real repos: git log --grep searches full
commit bodies and tail -1 keeps the OLDEST match, so a single prose mention
anywhere in history (a planning commit forward-referencing the phase per
D-09, a doc commit using '### Phase N' as a format example) silently
captured the base — while GSD's own commits, which use conventional-commit
scopes (docs(phase-6):, feat(6-01):, docs(06):) and never contain the
literal 'Phase N', were matched by nothing. The wrong base inflated the
Tier-3 file-list fallback, the #2666 SUMMARY/diff union, the reviewer
agent's diff_base, and fallow's --changed-since scope, with no warning.

All three derivation sites (Tier-3 fallback, spawn_reviewer, fallow
structural pre-pass) now grep for the subject-line conventional-commit
phase scope under --extended-regexp, in lockstep per the #3191 contract:

  ^[[:alpha:]]+!?\((phase-)?(N|0N)(-[0-9]+)?\)!?:

PHASE_SCOPE_NUM accepts both padded and unpadded phase spellings because
workflows emit the unpadded roadmap number (docs(phase-6):) while
code-review greps the zero-padded PADDED_PHASE. The ^ anchor makes it a
subject-line match, so commit-body prose can never capture the base. The
POSIX-ERE portability rule (#3191, no \b), the fail-closed empty-result
warning, and the --files escape hatch are preserved: histories with no
scope-style commits yield no base instead of an arbitrary one.

Tests (tests/code-review-pipeline-regression.test.cjs): new Bug 6 (#3503)
block executes the SHIPPED bash from all three sites against a real git
fixture whose history carries every prose false-positive class from the
issue — red pre-fix (the prose-body commits captured the base at every
site), green post-fix. The Bug 5 (#3191) block is updated to the scope
anchor contract (its fixtures bound to the shipped text), and its T6
docs-parity guard now enforces the identical scope-anchored grep plus the
PHASE_SCOPE_NUM prep at every git-log site.

Emitted drift: 3503-diff-base-scope-anchor.json acks the deliberate
workflow growth; the spent 3191-unanchored-grep-sites.json fragment (its
code-review.md entry was consumed when #3191 merged) is pruned.

* chore(#3503): add changeset fragment for PR #3526

* fix(#3503): rebase onto next and correct the emitted-drift ack

Rebase onto origin/next@6badb839 (PR freshness: #3514/#3516 landed after
this branch was cut). Post-rebase the attribution gate classifies the two
source-path ack entries (gsd-core/workflows/code-review.md, structural-
pre-pass.md) as stale — source files present in the diff are identity-
attributed by the table, so only the emitted code-review.md basename
growth needs an acknowledgment. The fragment now names exactly that one
consumed entry.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-14 23:01:00 -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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