* fix(#4488): report state update as successful when the value is already correct `cmdStateUpdate` unconditionally overwrote `updateCore`'s own `updated:true` signal with `reconcileReportedFields`'s disk-diff result. That diff reports `[]` -- by design -- whenever `readModifyWriteStateMd`'s #948 no-op guard fires because the transform's output was byte-identical to the input, which happens precisely when the requested value already equals what's on disk. The field genuinely was found and matched; there was simply nothing left to change. Collapsing that into the same `false`/"not found" response as a genuine miss produced an actively wrong diagnostic message and a silent same-day no-op in gsd-ship + gsd-extract-learnings, which both write `Last Activity` to today's date. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(#4488): backfill changeset pr number to 4581 Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(#4488): untrack tdd-red-evidence.cjs, completing its ADR-457 gitignore migration Bundled discovery from this PR's own CI run: tests/lint-compiled-artifact- sync.test.cjs's full tsc compile (which runs whenever ANY compiled artifact remains tracked) SIGTERM'd under shard contention. gsd-core/bin/lib/tdd-red- evidence.cjs (introduced by #3770/PR #4279) was the sole remaining tracked artifact -- a tenth, later, separate instance of the #2657/#2653 migration-gap defect class this test file's closed nine-item list doesn't cover. Untracked it and added the .gitignore entry, same fix shape as the original nine. This eliminates the slow tsc-compile path entirely (verified: 0.1s vs ~7s locally) rather than papering over a timeout. Added a generic regression test asserting the tracked set is fully empty. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local> Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <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.