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* fix(#2598): declare OpenCode subagent dispatch synchronous, not background capabilities/opencode/capability.json advertised dispatch.background: true and dispatch.backgroundDispatch: true. negotiateHostCapabilities and every degradationFor / shouldFlattenDispatch consumer trusts these per-field values, so declaring a capability the host lacks OVERSTATES it — the opposite of the fail-closed posture the negotiation is built for. The issue's own citations needed checking before acting: the host-integration matrix (ADR-1239's designated deployment source-of-truth) documented `true` with NEWER evidence than the issue cited, and explicitly marked the issue's sst/opencode#5887 reference as a stale snapshot superseded by #2087. git log confirms #2087 deliberately flipped these from false to true, citing OpenCode v1.15.0/v1.17 as "background subagents enabled by default in all modes". Applying the issue as filed would, on that evidence, have REGRESSED a deliberate update. So the claim was verified against current upstream rather than either document. `packages/opencode/src/effect/runtime-flags.ts` on `dev` today reads: experimentalBackgroundSubagents: enabledByExperimental("OPENCODE_EXPERIMENTAL_BACKGROUND_SUBAGENTS") `enabledByExperimental` falls back to the `experimental` flag and `bool()` defaults to false — the parameter is hidden from the model unless an operator opts in by env var. Upstream #29638 is still OPEN and confirms the session loop `tasks.pop()`s one subtask at a time. #2087's "default-on in all modes" reading does not hold against current dev. The issue's CONCLUSION is therefore right even though part of its evidence was superseded: concurrent dispatch cannot be relied on, so both fields are false. The matrix rows are corrected with the verified citation rather than reverted to the old #5887 quote, so the record shows why the value is false TODAY rather than re-asserting evidence that was legitimately superseded. Neighbouring sub-fields are untouched and pinned by test: namedDispatch, subagentToolkit, and isolation:'orchestrator-worktree' (which works via `opencode run --dir` at the OS process level and is unaffected — #2584 does not depend on this value either way). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015TCwhbMuY37DzRMCfzTABJ * fix(#2598): re-pin the dispatch contract tests to synchronous OpenCode dispatch gsd-test on the descriptor change came back FAILED (5 unique, both node versions). The failures were not incidental — they were deliberate contract-pin tests encoding #2087's decision, one named literally "background UPGRADE": tests/host-integration-descriptors.test.cjs - EXPECTED_FLATTEN[opencode] === false (background-eligible) - the derived background-eligible set pin tests/opencode-imperative-reference.test.cjs - "descriptor declares background dispatch true/true (v1.15/v1.17 upgrade)" - "background UPGRADE changes shouldFlattenDispatch: false now" So this is a recorded decision being reversed, not drift being corrected, and it is reversed on evidence: current upstream `dev` gates the capability behind OPENCODE_EXPERIMENTAL_BACKGROUND_SUBAGENTS (default false) and upstream #29638 (OPEN) confirms the session loop still handles one subtask at a time. The issue is filed by the maintainer and explicitly directs "update golden-parity / validator fixtures as needed", which sanctions re-pinning. Behavioral consequence, verified: shouldFlattenDispatch(opencode) now returns TRUE, so GSD serializes opencode dispatch instead of trusting concurrency it cannot get. That is the correct fail-closed direction and is safe today — no shipped GSD flow drives OpenCode background waves (per the issue), and isolation:'orchestrator-worktree' is unaffected because it works at the OS process level via `opencode run --dir`, not via the native subagent. Each re-pinned test now asserts the retracted contract in the opposite direction — feeding the #2087 axes back in must still yield "would not flatten" — so a silent re-flip of either field is caught rather than merely un-asserted. lint:ci exit 0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015TCwhbMuY37DzRMCfzTABJ * chore(#2598): backfill changeset pr number (#2682) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
GSD Core documentation
Documentation is organised into four quadrants: tutorials help you learn by doing, how-to guides solve specific tasks, reference states authoritative facts, and explanation explores concepts and design decisions.
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Tutorials
- Your first project — install to first shipped phase, one guaranteed path
- Onboarding an existing codebase — bring GSD Core to a brownfield repo
- Build your first capability — author a tiny declarative capability and watch it act in the loop
- Install your first capability — install a third-party capability end-to-end: consent, verify, check for updates, remove
How-to guides
- Install on your runtime — runtime-specific install steps for all 16 supported runtimes
- Install a minimal GSD and add skills later — install only the core skills, then grow the surface with profiles and
/gsd:surface - Attach a plugin-provided skill to a GSD agent — use the
global:plugin:skillentry form to load Claude Code plugin skills into agent prompts - Discuss a phase — capture implementation decisions before planning begins
- Resolve edge-coverage findings — turn the spec phase's surfaced domain-boundary edges into covered, dismissed, or backstopped spec decisions
- Resolve prohibition findings — turn the spec phase's surfaced must-NOT constraints into resolved, dismissed, or deferred spec decisions
- Plan a phase — run research, decompose work, and verify plan quality
- Execute a phase — run plans in parallel waves with fresh-context subagents
- Verify and ship — walk through completed work, diagnose failures, and create the PR
- Run phases autonomously — use autonomous mode for unattended phase execution
- Handle quick and fast tasks — use
/gsd-quickand/gsd-fastfor ad-hoc work outside the phase loop - Configure model profiles — switch between quality, balanced, and budget model tiers
- Set up cross-AI review — configure a second AI to review code produced by the primary agent
- Work in parallel with workstreams — run independent lines of work simultaneously using workstreams
- Isolate work with workspaces — use workspaces to sandbox experimental or risky changes
- Debug a failed execution — diagnose and recover from broken or incomplete phase execution
- Spike and sketch — use
/gsd-spikeand/gsd-sketchfor exploratory work before committing to a plan - Design a UI phase — use the UI phase loop for frontend and visual work
- Develop a Capability for GSD 1.5+ — add feature Capabilities, hook fragments, and registry entries
- Add or update a host's integration — set a host's documentation-sourced
runtime.hostIntegrationaxes (ADR-1239 Phase A), with theundocumentedsentinel rule - Turn a capability off (and keep it off) — disable a capability via the surface, or gate individual hooks off without removing the capability
- Drive GSD from a tracker issue — start a phase from a GitHub, Linear, or Jira issue
- Migrate from GSD 2 — upgrade an existing GSD 2 project to GSD Core
- Update GSD — re-run the installer to pick up the latest release
- Clean up get-shit-done-cc — remove leftover old-package artifacts that cause a spurious
⬆ /gsd:updateindicator after migrating to@opengsd/gsd-core - Fix the worktree base-mismatch (exit 42) error — resolve the branch-divergence condition that halts parallel phase execution
- Recover and troubleshoot — fix common problems, rebuild context, and uninstall
Reference
- Commands — every command with flags and examples
- Configuration — full config schema, model profiles, git branching strategies
- CLI tools —
gsd-tools.cjsprogrammatic API for workflows and agents - Features — complete feature index
- Inventory — installed skills and surface map
- STATE.md schema — field-by-field reference for
.planning/STATE.md - CONTEXT.md schema — field-by-field reference for
.planning/phases/<N>/CONTEXT.md - PLAN.md schema — field-by-field reference for
.planning/phases/<N>/PLAN.md - Planning artifacts — all
.planning/files and their roles - Review and verification capabilities — code review, security, and Nyquist capability ownership and hook contracts
- Capability matrix — generated catalogue of every capability's role, tier, extension points, hook kinds, and
engines.gsd - Capability manifest — the full
capability.jsonschema and validation rules gsd capabilitycommand — install / update / remove / list reference for third-party capabilities
Explanation
- Context engineering — how context rot forms and how GSD Core prevents it
- The phase loop — design rationale for the Discuss → Plan → Execute → Verify → Ship cycle
- Multi-agent orchestration — how subagents are spawned, scoped, and coordinated
- Security model — trust boundaries, permissions, and safe automation
- The capability trust model — why third-party capabilities are gated by consent + integrity + reversibility, not a sandbox
- How overlay capabilities compose — why first-party always wins and how the loader resolves precedence, conflicts, and fail-open load-failure warnings
- Architecture — system architecture, agent model, and data flow
- The Embeddable Orchestration System — one public, versioned contract for embedding GSD across many hosts
- Discuss modes — assumptions mode vs interview mode for
/gsd-discuss-phase - Context monitoring — context window monitoring hook architecture
- Issue-driven orchestration — recipe for driving GSD from a tracker issue using existing primitives
Related
- What's new in 1.7.0 — curated highlights of the 1.7.0 release
- Root README — landing page, quickstart, and documentation overview
- Changelog — release history