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Tom Boucher ffd5370464 fix(#2903): use the command form that actually works in reader-facing docs (#3047)
* fix(#2903): use the command form that actually works in reader-facing docs

Docs told readers to type the colon form, which no runtime registers -- 18 of
19 runtimes use slash-hyphen and the 19th uses shell-var -- so anyone copying an
example got an unrecognized command. Swept 178 occurrences across 53 files,
locale mirrors included so they do not re-diverge from English.

The colon form is a source-authoring token, not a user-facing one: install-time
converters key on it to produce the hyphen form runtimes actually register. So
the sweep is scoped, and three things are deliberately left alone:

- ADRs, which are a historical record; editing their prose falsifies what was
  written at the time.
- The legacy release-notes archive, pending a maintainer decision on whether it
  follows the same historical carve-out. Excluding it keeps a later reversal
  additive rather than a revert.
- Source artifacts under commands, workflows and agents, where the colon form is
  load-bearing. Rewriting those would break the installed-skill guarantee across
  every runtime -- the single largest hazard here.

The plugin namespace form is a real, separate token and survives untouched.

Adds a lint enforcing exactly that boundary, since the correct form genuinely
differs by directory and nothing previously caught the drift.

Also fixes a hardcoded colon form in the capability-matrix generator. The sweep
alone would have left the generated matrix disagreeing with the template that
produces it, so the fix is at the source and the output regenerated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#2903): stop the sweep misquoting source frontmatter

Adversarial review caught three lines where the sweep rewrote a citation of the
literal YAML name: key from a source command file. That key genuinely is the
colon form -- this change's own carve-out logic says source-authoring tokens keep
it -- so the docs ended up misquoting the real files. One of the three is an
acceptance-checklist assertion, which the sweep turned into a false statement.

Restored the three citations to match their sources verbatim, surgically: where a
line carried both a name: citation and a real reader-facing slash command, only
the citation reverted and the command stayed corrected.

The guard needed the same distinction, or it would have flagged the restoration
and reddened the build: a gsd:<cmd> token preceded by name: is a citation of a
source token and is now permitted. The exemption is deliberately narrow -- a bare
gsd:<cmd> anywhere else still fails -- with a test pinning that narrowness.

Also makes the detection case-insensitive. Review found /GSD:next slipped through
silently; no such casing exists in the tree today, so this closes a latent gap
rather than fixing a live one.

Swept the whole tree for further corrupted citations: none beyond the three.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#2903): retire the stale-next invariant and sweep next like every other command

Maintainer decision on a genuine conflict between two contracts.

Invariant #3054 banned the literal /gsd-next from user-facing docs because it
named a retired workflow-advance command. But commands/gsd/next.md is a live
command -- the state-aware smart-entry launcher -- and this issue requires docs
to use the hyphen form every runtime actually registers. Both could not hold for
this one command, so docs had been sidestepping the ban by keeping the colon
form, which is exactly the defect this issue exists to remove.

FEATURES.md already recorded the reassignment: the hyphen form "is not the
retired workflow-advance command; it is reserved for the state-aware smart-entry
launcher. Workflow advancement remains under /gsd-progress --next." With that
reassignment the invariant's premise is obsolete and the guard now contradicts
the documented command form, so it is retired with a comment recording why
rather than deleted silently.

next is now swept like every other command, and the earlier exemption added to
the new guard is removed so nothing is special-cased.

Four citations of the literal name: frontmatter key stay in colon form, because
the source file really does carry name: gsd:next and a doc quoting it must
reproduce it verbatim. Two of those lines were reworded to say which side is the
frontmatter key and which is the slash command, since they previously conflated
the two.

Verified the retired scan would now genuinely fail against this tree -- the
conflict was real and resolved, not dodged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(#2903): backfill changeset pr number

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 13:23:44 -04:00

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Capability matrix reference

Generated file — do not edit by hand. This matrix is generated from the capability registry by scripts/gen-capability-matrix.cjs and kept honest by a drift guard (tests/capability-matrix-sync.test.cjs runs --check). Any manual edit is overwritten on the next generation run. To change a capability's declared metadata, edit the corresponding capabilities/<id>/capability.json and run node scripts/gen-capability-matrix.cjs --write.

See also: ADR-1244 — Capability manifest fields — The capability trust model


Column definitions

Column Description
id Canonical capability identifier; unique across first- and third-party capabilities. Reserved prefixes: gsd-, gsd-core-, anthropic-.
role feature — extends what the loop does; runtime — adapts GSD to a specific AI runtime/IDE; reviewer — declares a cross-AI reviewer lane (ADR-2782). A capability may be both a runtime and a reviewer.
tier core — always active; standard — active when the runtime supports it; full — opt-in or runtime-specific.
engines.gsd Semver RANGE expressing host-version compatibility. A hard gate at install and at load. — means the capability declares no range.
extension points The loop points this capability registers hooks into (from the registry's byLoopPoint index). — means it registers none (typical for runtime capabilities, whose job is surface emission).
hook kinds Which of step, contribution, gate the capability's hooks use. — means none.
source first-party — ships with GSD Core; third-party — installed from an external source via gsd capability install.

On versions. This matrix intentionally omits a per-capability version column. First-party capabilities are versioned in lockstep with the GSD Core package (their capability.json version always equals the GSD release version), so a per-row version would simply repeat the package version and churn the committed file on every release. The stable host-compatibility signal — engines.gsd — is shown instead. A third-party capability's exact version is recorded in the per-runtime ledger (.gsd-capabilities.json) at install time.


Native (first-party) capabilities

First-party capabilities are implicitly trusted: they ship as part of the GSD Core package and are stamped with the package version at release (per ADR-1244 D6). They are not subject to the consent or integrity-pin flow applied to third-party capabilities.

Feature capabilities (role: feature) — 20

Feature capabilities extend what the loop does — contributing research, planning, execution, verification, or ship artefacts at the loop extension points.

id role tier engines.gsd extension points hook kinds source
ai-integration feature full >=1.6.0 plan:pre, verify:pre step, contribution, gate first-party
assumption-delta feature full >=1.6.0 plan:pre contribution first-party
audit feature full >=1.6.0 — — first-party
broken-windows feature full >=1.7.0 ship:pre gate first-party
claude-orchestration feature full >=1.7.0 plan:post, execute:wave:pre contribution first-party
code-review feature full >=1.6.0 execute:post step first-party
drift feature full >=1.6.0 plan:pre, execute:wave:post gate first-party
external-job feature full >=1.7.0 plan:post, execute:wave:post contribution first-party
gap-analysis feature standard >=1.6.0 plan:post gate first-party
graphify feature full >=1.6.0 — — first-party
intel feature full >=1.6.0 plan:pre step first-party
mempalace feature full >=1.6.0 discuss:pre, discuss:post, plan:pre, plan:post, execute:wave:post, verify:post, ship:post step, contribution first-party
nyquist feature full >=1.6.0 verify:post step first-party
pattern-mapper feature full >=1.6.0 plan:pre step first-party
profile-pipeline feature full >=1.6.0 — — first-party
research feature standard >=1.6.0 plan:pre step first-party
schema-gate feature full >=1.6.0 plan:pre contribution first-party
security feature full >=1.6.0 plan:pre, verify:post, ship:pre step, contribution, gate first-party
tdd feature full >=1.6.0 plan:pre, execute:post contribution, gate first-party
ui feature full >=1.6.0 plan:pre, execute:wave:post, verify:post step, gate first-party

Runtime capabilities (role: runtime) — 19

Runtime capabilities adapt GSD to a specific AI runtime or IDE — emitting skills, agents, hooks configuration, and surface files for that host. They typically register no loop hooks (their primary responsibility is surface emission), so their extension-point and hook-kind cells are —.

id role tier engines.gsd extension points hook kinds source
antigravity runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
augment runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
claude runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
cline runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
codebuddy runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
codex runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
copilot runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
cursor runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
hermes runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
kilo runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
kimi runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
kimi-code runtime core >=1.7.0 — — first-party
opencode runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
pi runtime core >=1.7.0 — — first-party
qwen runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
trae runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
vscode runtime core >=1.7.0 — — first-party
windsurf runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party
zcode runtime core >=1.6.0 — — first-party

Reviewer capabilities (role: reviewer) — 5

Reviewer capabilities declare a cross-AI reviewer lane — one external CLI or model endpoint /gsd-review hands a plan to (ADR-2782 D3). They are not install targets: they emit no skills, agents, hooks or surface files, so their extension-point and hook-kind cells are —. A host that is also a reviewer (Claude, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Qwen, Antigravity) keeps one manifest and appears under runtime above, carrying its lane alongside its runtime body; only lanes that GSD never installs into appear here.

Because a lane receives the plan text, requirements, research findings and CONTEXT.md decisions, it is a disclosed executable surface and is consent-gated at install like any other — see the trust model.

id role tier engines.gsd extension points hook kinds source
coderabbit reviewer full >=1.8.0 — — first-party
gemini reviewer full >=1.8.0 — — first-party
llama-cpp reviewer full >=1.8.0 — — first-party
lm-studio reviewer full >=1.8.0 — — first-party
ollama reviewer full >=1.8.0 — — first-party

Third-party capabilities

This matrix is the first-party catalogue: it is generated from the committed registry and therefore lists only the capabilities that ship with GSD Core. Installed third-party capabilities are NOT written into this committed file. Once a user installs one via gsd capability install <spec> it enters the runtime registry overlay (ADR-1244 D2); the overlay-aware view of what is installed on a given machine is gsd capability list (see the gsd capability command reference), which reports first-party and installed third-party capabilities together using the same column fields described below, with source = third-party.

Column values for third-party rows

Column Value
id As declared in capability.json. Must not use reserved prefixes (gsd-, gsd-core-, anthropic-).
role feature, runtime, or reviewer, as declared.
tier core, standard, or full, as declared.
engines.gsd Range from capability.json; verified at install and at each load.
extension points The loop points the capability registers into, validated against the known 12 identifiers.
hook kinds step, contribution, and/or gate as declared. Disclosed in the consent summary at install.
source third-party

Community registry

Whether GSD operates or advertises a central community registry of third-party capabilities is TBD/TBA (PRD). The matrix mechanic and all manifest fields ship regardless of that decision; URL/git/npm/tarball import does not depend on a central registry.


Manifest field reference

The fields below are defined in capability.json and govern how a capability appears in this matrix. For the full schema, see ADR-1244 D1 and the capability manifest reference.

Field Required Type Purpose
version Yes semver string Capability version. The registry rejects manifests without it.
engines.gsd Recommended semver range Host-version compatibility gate. Enforced at install and load.
compatVersions No object: cap-version → gsd-range Graceful-downgrade table for sources that enumerate versions (git tags, registry, npm).
integrity No sha512-<base64> SHA-512 digest of the fetched bundle. Verified before extraction when present; mismatch aborts.
provenance No { sourceRepo, commit } Source provenance; populated in CI for first-party/curated capabilities.