a294ec2a2b
Round 2, both Majors. They are one defect seen twice: the recurrence guard did
not cover the surface it exists to guard.
Blind surfaces. resolveLiveConfigRoots enumerates getGlobalConfigDir per registry
runtime plus a hardcoded grok branch, so it can only ever see runtime config
ROOTS. Two live write surfaces are not roots and passed through silently:
$GSD_HOME/.gsd — GSD's user-owned store. Watched WHOLESALE: unlike ~/.claude
this root is exclusively ours, so the shared-root
false-positive trap the module documents does not apply.
<kimi>/config.toml — the file GSD writes its native [[hooks]] block into. The
INVERSE case: ~/.kimi belongs to Kimi CLI, so only the one
file GSD writes is watched, never the root.
That asymmetry is why this is not a two-line "add two roots" patch — one target
needs the whole tree, the other needs exactly one file, and collapsing them
either under-watches the store or trips the guard's own documented
false-positive trap on a third party's directory.
Extras are passed to snapshotLiveConfig explicitly rather than resolved inside
it, so a caller snapshotting a fixture root cannot silently pull the developer's
real ~/.gsd into its own assertions. run-tests.cjs now snapshots when EITHER the
roots or the extras are non-empty — previously an unbuilt tree yielding zero
roots disabled the entire guard without saying so.
Budget coverage. The MAX_ENTRIES/MAX_DEPTH bound and the truncated -> 'unverified'
branch had zero tests, despite this module's own docstring naming "a truncated
scan reading as clean" as the safety-critical case. Added per
RULESET.TESTS.boundary-coverage (N in {limit-1, limit, limit+1}, exercised
through newestMtime's injected budget so the boundary is real without
materialising 20000 files) and RULESET.TESTS.property-based-testing (fast-check:
truncation is monotone in the budget; reported newest never exceeds the true
maximum). A regression flipping `truncated` to false on an exhausted budget now
breaks the property for every budget below the tree size.
Negative-controlled: neutering the extras wiring fails exactly the two
new-surface tests and nothing else. 21/21 green with it restored.
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.