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`gsd-core/workflows/quick/steps/quick-verification.md` read the verifier's result with `grep "^status:" F | cut -d: -f2 | tr -d ' '` and routed it through a table whose only arms were passed / human_needed / gaps_found. That read fails two ways. Driven against the old pipeline: never written (verifier died) -> empty -> no arm off-schema value -> weird_value -> no arm `status:` in frontmatter AND prose -> two lines -> no arm valid `passed` on a CRLF checkout -> passed\r -> no arm stale report still reading passed -> passed -> SUCCESS `status: passed` in the prose only -> passed -> SUCCESS off-schema `passed:bogus` -> passed -> SUCCESS The first four leave the orchestrating agent improvising at the moment the pipeline failed. The last three are silent false passes: staleness was never evaluated, the match was not anchored to frontmatter, and `cut -d: -f2` splits an off-schema value at its own colon. The CRLF row is a pre-existing Windows bug this change closes as a side effect. The unanchored match is DEFECT.FRONTMATTER-SCALAR-BROAD-GREP, which the code side already fixed by name — `readVerificationStatus` parses frontmatter only, anchored at byte 0, and is total over its input space, returning `missing`, `unknown` and `stale` sentinels. execute-phase.md, verify-work.md and progress.md all read this same artifact through that query already; quick was the remaining second mechanism. Route quick's read through it and add an explicit terminal arm. Three details a naive swap misses: - The step file carries the runtime shim bootstrap itself. Step files are read and executed as their own units, so quick.md's bootstrap does not reach here. Copied byte-identically from gsd-core/workflows/_runtime-launcher.snippet.sh, the source sync-runtime-launcher.cjs generates every workflow's copy from. Without it the call resolves to nothing, 2>/dev/null swallows the error, and the fix degrades to a permanently-taken recovery arm. - No jq. `--pick status` returns the bare value. Per #2589 a `| jq -r` pipe yields an EMPTY variable with no diagnostic wherever jq is absent — the Windows/Git-Bash default — which here would route a passing verification into the recovery arm, strictly worse than the grep being replaced. - $VERIFICATION_STATUS is a DISPLAY string ("Verified" / "Needs Review" / "Gaps") consumed at quick.md:619 and quick.md:684, not the raw status. The raw value lands in $STATUS and the new arm sets both, so the failure path does not emit an empty index-table cell. next_action / next_command are deliberately not surfaced. readVerificationStatus discovers and parses shape-agnostically, which is what makes the status half correct for ${QUICK_DIR}; but it also reads the directory basename as a phase token to build those commands, and a quick dir is `${quick_id}-${slug}` with a date-derived quick_id — so the projection carries the date as a phase argument. Quick supplies its own recovery actions instead. Adds tests/fix-3174-quick-verification-status-read.test.cjs under `allow-test-rule: source-text-is-the-product` (CONTRIBUTING.md's exception matrix; the pattern tests/verify-work-auto-transition.test.cjs already uses for verify-work's status-query ordering). It pins five properties: the query replaces the grep, the bootstrap precedes the call, the bootstrap matches the canonical launcher snippet, the status-read fence is jq-free, and the terminal arm names all three sentinels and sets the display string. Verified as a negative control against pre-fix next: 0/5 pass there, 5/5 here.
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.