Tom Boucher 8c3d934a90 refactor(#1294): T-final — delete the core.cjs re-export spine (epic #1267 complete) (#1295)
* refactor(#1294): T-final — delete the core.cjs re-export spine (epic #1267 complete)

After T0–T6 nothing imports core, so retire the spine and its scaffolding:
- delete src/core.cts (and the gitignored gsd-core/bin/lib/core.cjs artifact;
  remove its .gitignore + eslint-ignore entries)
- delete scripts/lint-core-spine-imports.cjs + its allowlist; drop it from the
  package.json lint:ci chain
- regenerate docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json (drops the core.cjs surface)
- sweep stale references: CONTEXT.md glossary back-compat clauses (spine retired,
  callers import the leaf directly), planning-config.md CONFIG_DEFAULTS owner,
  and false present-tense core.cjs claims in leaf-module docstrings

The ADR-857 decomposition is complete: the former Core god-module is fully
dissolved into its leaf modules; no re-export spine remains. No behaviour change.

Closes #1294

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#1294): migrate the computed-path core.cjs importers the literal grep missed

bin/install.js used require(path.join(_gsdLibDir, 'core.cjs')) (a computed
path, and bin/install.js was never in the convergence lint's scan roots), and
~8 test files referenced core.cjs via path.join/readFileSync/existsSync/FILE_ARG
forms the literal-string migration grep missed. Route install.js's symbols to
their leaves (RUNTIME_PROFILE_MAP->model-catalog, resolveTierEntry/EFFORT_SET->
model-resolver) and repoint/adjust the test references to the leaves. Recovers
the 161 'Cannot find module core.cjs' failures from the spine deletion.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-15 18:50:46 -04:00

GSD Core

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A light-weight meta-prompting, context engineering, and spec-driven development system for Claude Code, OpenCode, Gemini 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, Gemini 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, Gemini 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 your first project:

/gsd-new-project

New here? Follow Your first project for a guided walkthrough from install to first shipped phase.


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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