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Hermes installs brand-swapped "Claude Code" -> "Hermes Agent" in shipped workflows/*.md but never projected the Agent(...) dispatch calls onto Hermes's delegate_task contract, so installed workflows kept literal Agent(...) syntax and falsely asserted "The Agent tool IS available" (Hermes exposes delegate_task, not Agent). Dispatch projection: a generic named-dispatch engine (projectNamedDispatchToStructuralDelegate) wired into the per-runtime RUNTIME_CONTENT_DISPATCH.hermes.md converter, branching entirely on the documentation-sourced hostIntegration.dispatch facts read via _hostIntegrationDispatch (capability.json unchanged): namedDispatch:false -> resolve the gsd-* role and embed a load-its-prompt instruction in the payload; background:true -> map onto delegate_task background; read-only / maxDepth:1 -> no nested delegation to leaf roles; per-call model dropped. Span detection uses literal Agent( scanning + local balanced paren/quote matching (immune to upstream document quote imbalance) and handles all three corpus call forms (multi-line, object-literal, single-line compact). An independent, mask-free post-projection guard fails the install loud on any residual Agent(/subagent_type/leaked model. Fail-closed: install throws if a literal gsd-* role reference cannot be resolved. commands -> skill path untouched. No literal Agent( survives in installed Hermes workflows. Folded in (maintainer-directed) a pre-existing cross-cutting branding defect: the "Claude Code" -> brand swap corrupted <runtime_compatibility> comparison tables (where "Claude Code" is a compared-runtime label) for every branding runtime. New shared applyClaudeCodeBrandSwap helper protects <runtime_compatibility> regions via split-and-rejoin (no sentinel token) while still rebranding genuine self-references; adopted by all six branding .md converters. Also a surgical prose-consistency fix so plan-review-convergence.md's dispatch-adjacent terminology is coherent post-projection (no broad bare-word rename). Golden install-parity regenerated for the six branding runtimes (dispatch/branding scope only); other runtimes unchanged. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
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:
- 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
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 |
| Discord | Community support |
Star History
License
MIT License. See LICENSE for details.
Claude Code is powerful. GSD Core makes it reliable.