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* test(#1958): add failing-first guardrail contract tests Epic #1957 Phase 1A. Adds source-text-is-the-product tests asserting the 5-signal fix-acceptance guardrail contract (target test, mutation check, no-op/deletion detector, adjacent tests, revert-and-reconfirm), graceful degradation, FIX REJECTED BY GUARDRAIL return path, per-signal debug-file recording, and subprocess bounding. Failing-first: reference file and agent sections do not yet exist. * feat(#1958): add multi-signal fix-acceptance guardrail to gsd-debugger Epic #1957 Phase 1A. Prevents accepting a fix that merely greens the test (Goodhart defense / APR overfitting). Adds a 5-signal gate run before fix acceptance: target test, mutation check (Stryker), no-op/behavior-deleting detector, adjacent/held-out tests, revert-and-reconfirm. Degrades gracefully when Stryker or a test suite is absent (each skip logged, never a silent pass), records per-signal results under Resolution.verification, and returns a FIX REJECTED BY GUARDRAIL outcome the session-manager surfaces for revise / accept-as-debt / abandon. Full rules extracted to gsd-core/references/debugger-fix-acceptance.md (slim routing kept in the agent to respect the agent-size cap). Debug template + INVENTORY + manifest + agent-size baseline + AGENTS.md updated. * test(#1958): correct newline-tolerant assertion + regen install-parity goldens The revert-and-reconfirm assertion collapsed whitespace before matching so markdown line-wrapping does not break it. Regenerated the golden-install-parity and install-tree fixtures (npm run gen:golden) to absorb the intentional gsd-debugger.md / gsd-debug-session-manager.md / DEBUG.md / new reference-file changes to the installed artifact tree. * fix(#1958): tighten guardrail per orthogonal review Addresses the isolated reviewer's findings: - signal 5 now states its recorded-repro dependency and routes the no-repro case to the degradation row; revert mechanism specified (git stash / git revert -n); minimality flag tied to diff structure, not revert-ability. - bounded-subprocesses section now bounds the git subprocess (5-30s) too, requires argv-array argument passing, and scopes Stryker to the driving regression test (a mutant killed only by a non-driving test is a finding). - new test-provenance (security) clause: the driving test must be agent-authored; bug-report repro scripts are DATA, never executed verbatim. - tightened 3 contract assertions to bind to specific clauses (guardrail_verdict field, deletion-reject-unless-RCA, 60s+git bounding). - Goodhart framing softened to 'partially-independent'; DEBUG.md template verification field notes the nested map shape. * chore(#1958): backfill changeset pr number (PR #2396) * fix(#1958): add issue ref to allow-test-rule annotation (ADR-456) CI lint-allow-test-rule-refs requires every allow-test-rule exemption to carry a 'see #NNN' issue ref per ADR-456. The new test file's annotation lacked it; this adds (see #1958).
GSD Core documentation
Documentation is organised into four quadrants: tutorials help you learn by doing, how-to guides solve specific tasks, reference states authoritative facts, and explanation explores concepts and design decisions.
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Tutorials
- Your first project — install to first shipped phase, one guaranteed path
- Onboarding an existing codebase — bring GSD Core to a brownfield repo
- Build your first capability — author a tiny declarative capability and watch it act in the loop
- Install your first capability — install a third-party capability end-to-end: consent, verify, check for updates, remove
How-to guides
- Install on your runtime — runtime-specific install steps for all 16 supported runtimes
- Install a minimal GSD and add skills later — install only the core skills, then grow the surface with profiles and
/gsd:surface - Attach a plugin-provided skill to a GSD agent — use the
global:plugin:skillentry form to load Claude Code plugin skills into agent prompts - Discuss a phase — capture implementation decisions before planning begins
- Resolve edge-coverage findings — turn the spec phase's surfaced domain-boundary edges into covered, dismissed, or backstopped spec decisions
- Resolve prohibition findings — turn the spec phase's surfaced must-NOT constraints into resolved, dismissed, or deferred spec decisions
- Plan a phase — run research, decompose work, and verify plan quality
- Execute a phase — run plans in parallel waves with fresh-context subagents
- Verify and ship — walk through completed work, diagnose failures, and create the PR
- Run phases autonomously — use autonomous mode for unattended phase execution
- Handle quick and fast tasks — use
/gsd-quickand/gsd-fastfor ad-hoc work outside the phase loop - Configure model profiles — switch between quality, balanced, and budget model tiers
- Set up cross-AI review — configure a second AI to review code produced by the primary agent
- Work in parallel with workstreams — run independent lines of work simultaneously using workstreams
- Isolate work with workspaces — use workspaces to sandbox experimental or risky changes
- Debug a failed execution — diagnose and recover from broken or incomplete phase execution
- Spike and sketch — use
/gsd-spikeand/gsd-sketchfor exploratory work before committing to a plan - Design a UI phase — use the UI phase loop for frontend and visual work
- Develop a Capability for GSD 1.5+ — add feature Capabilities, hook fragments, and registry entries
- Add or update a host's integration — set a host's documentation-sourced
runtime.hostIntegrationaxes (ADR-1239 Phase A), with theundocumentedsentinel rule - Turn a capability off (and keep it off) — disable a capability via the surface, or gate individual hooks off without removing the capability
- Drive GSD from a tracker issue — start a phase from a GitHub, Linear, or Jira issue
- Migrate from GSD 2 — upgrade an existing GSD 2 project to GSD Core
- Update GSD — re-run the installer to pick up the latest release
- Clean up get-shit-done-cc — remove leftover old-package artifacts that cause a spurious
⬆ /gsd:updateindicator after migrating to@opengsd/gsd-core - Fix the worktree base-mismatch (exit 42) error — resolve the branch-divergence condition that halts parallel phase execution
- Recover and troubleshoot — fix common problems, rebuild context, and uninstall
Reference
- Commands — every command with flags and examples
- Configuration — full config schema, model profiles, git branching strategies
- CLI tools —
gsd-tools.cjsprogrammatic API for workflows and agents - Features — complete feature index
- Inventory — installed skills and surface map
- STATE.md schema — field-by-field reference for
.planning/STATE.md - CONTEXT.md schema — field-by-field reference for
.planning/phases/<N>/CONTEXT.md - PLAN.md schema — field-by-field reference for
.planning/phases/<N>/PLAN.md - Planning artifacts — all
.planning/files and their roles - Review and verification capabilities — code review, security, and Nyquist capability ownership and hook contracts
- Capability matrix — generated catalogue of every capability's role, tier, extension points, hook kinds, and
engines.gsd - Capability manifest — the full
capability.jsonschema and validation rules gsd capabilitycommand — install / update / remove / list reference for third-party capabilities
Explanation
- Context engineering — how context rot forms and how GSD Core prevents it
- The phase loop — design rationale for the Discuss → Plan → Execute → Verify → Ship cycle
- Multi-agent orchestration — how subagents are spawned, scoped, and coordinated
- Security model — trust boundaries, permissions, and safe automation
- The capability trust model — why third-party capabilities are gated by consent + integrity + reversibility, not a sandbox
- How overlay capabilities compose — why first-party always wins and how the loader resolves precedence, conflicts, and fail-open load-failure warnings
- Architecture — system architecture, agent model, and data flow
- The Embeddable Orchestration System — one public, versioned contract for embedding GSD across many hosts
- Discuss modes — assumptions mode vs interview mode for
/gsd-discuss-phase - Context monitoring — context window monitoring hook architecture
- Issue-driven orchestration — recipe for driving GSD from a tracker issue using existing primitives
Related
- What's new in 1.7.0 — curated highlights of the 1.7.0 release
- Root README — landing page, quickstart, and documentation overview
- Changelog — release history