Tom Boucher 87ab4a4896 fix(#2140): distinguish checkbox-only reconcile from full in requirements mark-complete
cmdRequirementsMarkComplete OR-ed its two write surfaces (the - [ ] checkbox and
the | ID | ... | Pending | traceability row) into one 'found' flag. When the
checkbox matched and no table row did, it reported the same 'updated: true,
marked_complete: [ID]' payload as a full reconcile — while the traceability row
stayed Pending. The already_complete branch used OR (checkbox done OR row done),
so re-running on the half-written file classified the drift as already_complete
and moved on. audit-milestone (which reads the table) still saw Pending.

- Track the two surfaces separately (checkboxHit / tableHit).
- Add a 'table_unmatched' bucket: an ID whose checkbox reconciled (this run or
  before) but whose traceability table has no row for it — only when a table
  actually exists (a table-less REQUIREMENTS.md is legitimate).
- Fix the already_complete predicate: fully reconciled requires the row Complete,
  OR the checkbox done with NO table — a [x] checkbox with an absent/Pending row
  is partial, not done.
- A table-less REQUIREMENTS.md stays a clean success (the OR's legitimate use).

The invariant: a not-fully-applied requirement no longer returns a payload
indistinguishable from a fully-applied one.

Closes #2140
2026-07-12 16:06:29 -04:00

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

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

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License

MIT License. See LICENSE for details.


Claude Code is powerful. GSD Core makes it reliable.

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