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MSD is not published to npm, so /msd-update and the SessionStart update check could never find a release. Releases are now vX.Y.Z git tags plus a stable branch: - check-latest-version reads release tags via git ls-remote against the baked repository URL (latest = highest stable tag, next = incl. -rc) - /msd-update reruns the bootstrap installer pinned to the checked tag and reads the changelog from that tag - bootstrap.sh defaults to the stable branch and supports --local/--global - package identity: changelog URL on stable, manual install via msd.golem15.com - README quickstart and update how-to describe the one-line installer - track the repo-root CLAUDE.md Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: update.md — the update flow now explains the git-tag release lookup and pins the bootstrap installer to the checked tag, replacing the npm/npx wording
MSD Core
Make Software Done.
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A light-weight meta-prompting, context engineering, and spec-driven development system for Claude Code, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, Codex, Cursor, and more.
What is MSD Core
MSD Core is a context-engineering and spec-driven development framework that drives AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity CLI, 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
MSD Core is not published to npm. Install the latest release (needs Node.js 24+, git and jq) with:
curl -fsSL https://msd.golem15.com | bash
This installs Claude Code if it is missing, clones MSD into ~/.local/share/msd-core at the stable branch (the latest tagged release), builds it and installs it globally for Claude Code. Rerun the same command, or /msd-update inside your runtime, to update. Options go after bash -s --:
curl -fsSL https://msd.golem15.com | bash -s -- --claude --codex # several runtimes
curl -fsSL https://msd.golem15.com | bash -s -- --local # into the current project only
curl -fsSL https://msd.golem15.com | bash -s -- --ref next # unreleased work from next
From a checkout of this repository you can also run the installer directly:
git clone https://git.golem15.com/golem15/msd-core.git
cd msd-core && npm ci && npm run build:hooks
node bin/install.js --claude --global
For any other runtime, run node bin/install.js directly. The installer prompts for your runtime (Claude Code, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, Codex, Cursor, 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:
/msd-new-project # greenfield project
/msd-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. MSD 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 |
What MSD stands for
Make Software Done. The runners-up, preserved for posterity:
- Mostly Sane Development
- Minimum Suffering Delivery
- Merge, Ship, Disappear
License
MIT License. See LICENSE for details.
Claude Code is powerful. MSD Core makes it reliable.