gsd-test found three real regressions in the migrated STATE.md checks: - W002 didn't exempt phase refs whose only directory lives in an archived milestone (#3652) — now consults planning-snapshot.cts's archivedPhaseTokens field (added alongside this fix, shared with W006's identical need). - W011 (STATE/ROADMAP cross-validation) never fired: currentPhaseLabel only read the current template's bare "Phase:" field, silently missing legacy STATE.md fixtures that use the older bold "**Current Phase:**" field (mirrors state.cts's own resolveStatePhase fallback ladder, which the migration didn't carry over). - W026 (STATE milestone-complete vs. unstarted ROADMAP phases) had two independent defects: roadmapDeclaredPhases's milestone attribution can't see <details>/<summary>-shaped ROADMAP sections, and current- milestone resolution could go null — both silently emptied the "unstarted" set every time. Fixed by scoping ROADMAP.md to the current milestone via the same <details>-tolerant extractCurrentMilestone every other milestone-aware consumer uses, in a new dedicated planning-snapshot.cts field (currentMilestoneRoadmapPhaseIds) rather than reusing roadmapDeclaredPhases, which exists for a narrower, <details>-blind derivation (W021's own original logic) and would have regressed it if repurposed. Also fixes an unrelated drift-guard violation this same rule file introduced: its own phase-token regex was independently re-derived instead of built from the canonical PHASE_NUMBER_TOKEN_SOURCE.
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.