0xdhx 706bd2ab4e refactor(#2665): derive the guard's non-root targets from the descriptor array too
Follow-up to 38c9395d, found while fact-checking the round-3 response rather
than by a test.

That commit made TEST_ENV_BASE derive its keys from
NON_REGISTRY_CONFIG_HOME_DESCRIPTORS, but had the guard call
resolveKimiHooksTomlDir directly. Both halves covered kimi, so nothing was
broken — but only one of them would pick up a SECOND descriptor. That is the
same partial-enumeration defect that put KIMI_SHARE_DIR outside the scrub set,
reintroduced one layer over, in the very commit that closed it.

resolveExtraWatchTargets now iterates the array and resolves each descriptor
through resolveConfigHomeFromDescriptor, so the scrub set and the guard derive
from one source and cannot drift apart.

Verified: a synthetic second descriptor is picked up automatically (it was not
before); kimi's target is unchanged on both the default (~/.kimi/config.toml)
and KIMI_SHARE_DIR override paths.

The new test asserts one target per descriptor plus the store root. The COUNT
is the load-bearing half — every per-descriptor assertion passes vacuously
today with a single entry, so only the count fails when the array grows and the
guard does not follow.

NAMED RESIDUAL, documented at NON_REGISTRY_OWNED_FILE: this assumes every
non-registry descriptor is written the same way (config.toml). A descriptor
whose owned file differs needs a per-descriptor mapping. It fails toward
under-watching rather than false positives, so it is called out rather than
left to be discovered.
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GSD Core

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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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