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* feat(#3586): warn when .planning/ is gitignored but still tracked git ignore rules have no effect on files git already tracks, so a project that committed .planning/ before ignoring it keeps staging those files -- while commit_docs correctly resolves to false, which is exactly what makes the contradiction invisible. The probe lives in the SNAPSHOT BUILDER, not the rule: Rule.check may perform no ambient I/O (ADR-3180 8.1 rule 1, enforced by lint-planning-snapshot-bypass). buildPlanningTrackedField follows buildWorktreeHealthField's precedent -- injected execGit, bounded, degrading to UNREADABLE with a typed reason rather than throwing. W024 went inline instead only because no snapshot field carried its fact; that precondition does not apply here. W029 fires only on COMPLETE scope with ignored and tracked both true, so a degraded probe yields neither a finding nor a false all-clear, and the default project (tracked, not ignored) stays silent. The remedy is ADVISE-only -- --repair never untracks anything. * docs(#3586): document W029 and correct the health rule count CONFIGURATION.md documented the gitignore auto-detect without the caveat that ignore rules do not affect already-tracked files -- the very gap W029 exists to surface. Adds the caveat, the warning, its remedy, and why --repair will not act on it. CONTEXT.md's rule count was stale at 31 before this change (actual 32 through W028); corrected to 33 and pointed at the two other places the count is locked, so the next editor updates all three together. * fix(#3586): treat ls-files overflow as tracked, add CLI-level W029 tests Review findings. Security (minor, confirmed): execGit sets no maxBuffer, so Node's 1MB default applies to git ls-files. A .planning/ tree large enough to overflow it failed into git_list_failed and silenced W029 -- a false negative in exactly the large-history case most likely to have the real bug. Overflow is now treated as PROOF of tracking (the output was non-empty by definition) and resolves to tracked:true, scope COMPLETE, reason ok_truncated. Spec (major): test-matrix rows C1 and C2 were never implemented -- there was no CLI-level integration test at all, only rule-level ones. Both now drive the real validate-health dispatch and confirm W029 is reachable end-to-end. Known limit documented, not papered over: a deliberate git add -f under an otherwise-ignored .planning/ raises the same signal as the accidental case. There is no reliable way to tell them apart, the finding is advisory-only, and a heuristic that cannot actually distinguish them would be worse than the honest caveat. * test(#3586): update frozen health-doc counts and acknowledge health.md growth The remote matrix caught three gates that lint:ci does not cover. gen-health-docs.test.cjs froze a 35-row / 32-rule assertion; W029 makes it 36/33. Updated both the assertion and the test NAME, which embeds the counts -- a stale name is a lie even when the assertion passes. The second reported failure was the same assertion surfacing at describe-rollup granularity, not a distinct bug. emitted-attribution's growth arm needed an ack for the generated health.md. health.md was already named in 3309-health-docs-generated.json, and two ack sources naming one path is a hard error -- so a new fragment was not an option. That fragment's own history shows the pattern: #3309 created it, #2873 amended it in place for W028. Amended again for W029, with a note recording why this one file is amended rather than joined by a sibling. * docs(#3586): add the private-planning how-to and fix a wrong link docs/CONFIGURATION.md pointed 'Configure private planning' at how-to/configure-model-profiles.md -- an unrelated page -- and no private-planning how-to existed at all. Found while editing that section. The how-to test genuinely fires here: going private is four steps and crosses planning.search_gitignored, a setting owned by another concern, so a reference table structurally cannot carry it. The new page walks the whole sequence and leads with the step people miss -- .gitignore does not untrack what git already tracks -- which is the exact state W029 now detects. Also corrects 'artefacts' to 'artifacts' (repo house style is American). * chore(#3586): backfill changeset pr number to 3598 --------- Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
GSD Core documentation
Documentation is organised into four quadrants: tutorials help you learn by doing, how-to guides solve specific tasks, reference states authoritative facts, and explanation explores concepts and design decisions.
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Tutorials
- Your first project — install to first shipped phase, one guaranteed path
- Onboarding an existing codebase — bring GSD Core to a brownfield repo
- Build your first capability — author a tiny declarative capability and watch it act in the loop
- Install your first capability — install a third-party capability end-to-end: consent, verify, check for updates, remove
How-to guides
- Install on your runtime — runtime-specific install steps for all 16 supported runtimes
- Install a minimal GSD and add skills later — install only the core skills, then grow the surface with profiles and
/gsd-surface - Attach a plugin-provided skill to a GSD agent — use the
global:plugin:skillentry form to load Claude Code plugin skills into agent prompts - Discuss a phase — capture implementation decisions before planning begins
- Resolve edge-coverage findings — turn the spec phase's surfaced domain-boundary edges into covered, dismissed, or backstopped spec decisions
- Resolve prohibition findings — turn the spec phase's surfaced must-NOT constraints into resolved, dismissed, or deferred spec decisions
- Resolve an unreachable-workflow finding — wire or fully sweep a shipped workflow that no command, agent, or skill references
- Resolve a contract-drift finding — bring an agent's completion contract, read-tag gate, or deleted-file test reference back into agreement with the registry
- Resolve unreachable-guard findings — fix shell guards whose fallback arm cannot run, and tell "nothing to report" apart from "could not look"
- Resolve an ESLint glob-coverage finding — bring a source file that matches no lint rule under coverage, or record a reasoned exemption
- Keep planning docs out of a shared repo — make
.planning/local-only, including untracking files git already tracks (the step.gitignorealone cannot do) - Plan a phase — run research, decompose work, and verify plan quality
- Execute a phase — run plans in parallel waves with fresh-context subagents
- Verify and ship — walk through completed work, diagnose failures, and create the PR
- Catch complexity before it compounds — enable the post-execute refactor hook, read a proposal's score vs. anchor delta, and accept or decline it
- Run phases autonomously — use autonomous mode for unattended phase execution
- Handle quick and fast tasks — use
/gsd-quickand/gsd-fastfor ad-hoc work outside the phase loop - Configure model profiles — switch between quality, balanced, and budget model tiers
- Control which host runtime GSD reports — read the
agent_runtimeladder, understand what host detection looks at, and pin the runtime when detection is not what you want - Set up cross-AI review — configure a second AI to review code produced by the primary agent
- Work in parallel with workstreams — run independent lines of work simultaneously using workstreams
- Isolate work with workspaces — use workspaces to sandbox experimental or risky changes
- Debug a failed execution — diagnose and recover from broken or incomplete phase execution
- Interpret scope-conformance warnings — read the advisory the worktree-wave merge emits when a plan branch commits outside its declared scope
- Interpret install-shadow warnings — read the advisory GSD Core emits when a
/gsd-*trigger is installed at both scopes and one silently wins, and tell "nothing to report" apart from "could not look" - Interpret
state validateresults — read thescopereason codes and tell "nothing to report" apart from "could not look" - Spike and sketch — use
/gsd-spikeand/gsd-sketchfor exploratory work before committing to a plan - Design a UI phase — use the UI phase loop for frontend and visual work
- Develop a Capability for GSD 1.5+ — add feature Capabilities, hook fragments, and registry entries
- Ship a reviewer lane in your capability — declare a
reviewerbody so/gsd-reviewdiscovers, invokes, and renders your external review CLI or model endpoint - List your reviewer lane in the registry — publish a lane you have built to the Reviewer Lane Registry so other people can find and install it
- Take over a capability or EoS integration — assume maintainership of an existing third-party capability, reviewer lane, or EoS host integration through a handoff, an adoption fork, first-party absorption, or a de-listing
- Add or update a host's integration — set a host's documentation-sourced
runtime.hostIntegrationaxes (ADR-1239 Phase A), with theundocumentedsentinel rule - Migrate an install test to the executed plan — convert an
fs.existsSync-probing install test group to a value assertion againstinstallRuntimeArtifacts's executed-plan return, and test against a fake fs adapter - Turn a capability off (and keep it off) — disable a capability via the surface, or gate individual hooks off without removing the capability
- Drive GSD from a tracker issue — start a phase from a GitHub, Linear, or Jira issue
- Migrate from GSD 2 — upgrade an existing GSD 2 project to GSD Core
- Update GSD — re-run the installer to pick up the latest release
- Clean up get-shit-done-cc — remove leftover old-package artifacts that cause a spurious
⬆ /gsd-updateindicator after migrating to@opengsd/gsd-core - Fix the worktree base-mismatch (exit 42) error — resolve the branch-divergence condition that halts parallel phase execution
- Recover and troubleshoot — fix common problems, rebuild context, and uninstall
Reference
- Commands — every command with flags and examples
- Configuration — full config schema, model profiles, git branching strategies
- CLI tools —
gsd-tools.cjsprogrammatic API for workflows and agents - JSON error mode —
gsd-toolsfailure channels: faults (stderr, exit 1) vs degraded results (stdout, exit 0), and the reason-code taxonomy - Features — complete feature index
- Inventory — installed skills and surface map
- STATE.md schema — field-by-field reference for
.planning/STATE.md - CONTEXT.md schema — field-by-field reference for
.planning/phases/<N>/CONTEXT.md - PLAN.md schema — field-by-field reference for
.planning/phases/<N>/PLAN.md - Planning artifacts — all
.planning/files and their roles - Review and verification capabilities — code review, security, and Nyquist capability ownership and hook contracts
- Gate predicates — canonical specification of the phase-gate predicate vocabulary
- Capability matrix — generated catalogue of every capability's role, tier, extension points, hook kinds, and
engines.gsd - Capability manifest — the full
capability.jsonschema and validation rules gsd capabilitycommand — install / update / remove / list reference for third-party capabilities- Workflow fragments — in-file
<!-- gsd:section -->marker grammar for fragmentizing workflow markdown at emission time - Reviewer Lane Registry — generated catalogue of third-party reviewer lanes, with their flags, transport, and install commands
Explanation
- Context engineering — how context rot forms and how GSD Core prevents it
- The phase loop — design rationale for the Discuss → Plan → Execute → Verify → Ship cycle
- Multi-agent orchestration — how subagents are spawned, scoped, and coordinated
- Security model — trust boundaries, permissions, and safe automation
- The capability trust model — why third-party capabilities are gated by consent + integrity + reversibility, not a sandbox
- How overlay capabilities compose — why first-party always wins and how the loader resolves precedence, conflicts, and fail-open load-failure warnings
- Architecture — system architecture, agent model, and data flow
- The Embeddable Orchestration System — one public, versioned contract for embedding GSD across many hosts
- Discuss modes — assumptions mode vs interview mode for
/gsd-discuss-phase - Context monitoring — context window monitoring hook architecture
- Issue-driven orchestration — recipe for driving GSD from a tracker issue using existing primitives
Related
- What's new in 1.7.0 — curated highlights of the 1.7.0 release
- Root README — landing page, quickstart, and documentation overview
- Changelog — release history