Tom Boucher 9dcd370332 fix(#1858): detect flat commands/gsd-<stem>.md layout in _resolveManifest
_resolveManifest only recognized the nested source layout (commands/gsd/*.md)
and the installed-runtime skills layout (skills/gsd-<stem>/SKILL.md). A flat
source install (Claude local project shape: commands/gsd-<stem>.md, no
commands/gsd/ subdir) matched neither branch, so the manifest came back empty
and resolveSurface materialized the full profile to an empty Set — silently
reporting every skill-bearing capability as surfaced:false / enabled:false /
active:false. The nyquist/code-review/security/ui verify:post and execute:post
hooks never fired even with their workflow.* toggles on.

Add a third branch: when commandsGsdDir is absent, scan dirname(commandsGsdDir)
for gsd-<stem>.md files, strip the gsd- prefix, and build the same Map shape
the nested loader produces (requires via shared parseRequires, companion
_calls_agents_<stem> via shared parseCallsAgents). Falls through to the
installed-skills branch when the flat dir has no gsd-*.md files (precedence:
nested > flat-source > installed).

Also export parseCallsAgents from install-profiles so capability-state reuses
the SAME parser the nested loader uses (no drift; mirrors the existing
parseRequires export+reuse pattern).
2026-07-06 21:13:42 -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 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

Project Platform
gsd-opencode Original OpenCode port
Discord Community support

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License

MIT License. See LICENSE for details.


Claude Code is powerful. GSD Core makes it reliable.

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