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* test(#2596): failing-first suite for worktree-wave scope conformance Binds the advisory diff-vs-declared-scope check to behavior before it exists: the pure coverage predicate, the SUMMARY-artifact exemption and its parity with the rescue walker, the gauntlet integration (never flips ok, degrades on a git failure, survives a later block), the manifest normalizer's files_modified handling, and the --files negative-input matrix on record-agent/create. Refs #2596 * enhance(#2596): warn when a wave branch commits outside its declared scope The worktree-wave merge gauntlet validated branch, base, deletions, SUMMARY rescue and a clean worktree, but never compared a plan branch's actual committed diff against the files_modified the plan declared — so an executor that committed outside its brief merged into shared phase state silently. Adds an advisory scope-conformance check: when the manifest entry carries a declared scope, the gauntlet diffs HEAD...<branch> and appends one structured warning per path outside it. It never flips ok and never blocks the merge; promotion to a hard gate is a separate, disclosed change. With no declared scope no git subprocess is spent at all. Refs #2596 * docs(#2596): document the advisory worktree-wave scope-conformance check Records the optional --files flag on worktree record-agent/create, the advisory warnings channel cleanup-wave now emits, and its two deliberate noise limits (SUMMARY-artifact exemption, literal-prefix glob matching). Wires execute-phase to pass the plan's already-parsed PLAN_FILES. Refs #2596 * fix(#2596): close review findings on the scope-conformance advisory - share one path normalizer between the SUMMARY-artifact predicate and the scope comparison so the exemption and the check cannot drift - wire --files into the orchestrator-worktree dispatch, which created a worktree but never declared its scope, so the advisory silently did not apply on that backend; ADR-1239 requires both adapters share one check - correct the now-false blockquote claiming the check does not exist yet - add the fast-check property tests the repo requires for parser logic - add the record-agent/create parity test that Generative Fix Divergence requires for two surfaces implementing one rule Refs #2596 * fix(#2596): keep execute-phase.md under the frozen pre-phase-6 byte ceiling The one-sentence note added with the --files flag pushed execute-phase.md to 93708 bytes, past the ADR-857 PRE_PHASE6 cap of 93600 — the tightest of the three workflow size gates, and a hard cap an acknowledgment cannot clear. It failed three tests plus the differential attribution check. Condense the note to a one-line pointer (93543, 57 B of headroom); the full explanation already lives in docs/CLI-TOOLS.md and the dispatch step. The flag itself stays in the command, because the orchestrator reads this workflow at runtime and cannot pick it up from docs/. Acknowledge the remaining 143 B of growth by appending to the existing execute-phase.md fragment rather than adding a second one — the ack lint rejects two sources naming the same path. Refs #2596 * fix(#2596): make the execute-phase.md edit net-negative, not merely under the cap The size gate on this file is two assertions, not one: bytes < 93600 AND bytes <= 93400. The base is exactly 93400, so the file is at its budget and any growth trips the margin assertion — the previous fix cleared the ceiling but not that. Move the --files explanation to per-plan-worktree-gate.md, which already owns PLAN_FILES and carries no cap, and reclaim the rest from two clauses in the sentence being edited: the cleanup-wave rules phrasing, and a 'non-zero exit' the very next sentence already states. execute-phase.md ends at 93392, eight bytes below base. The flag itself stays in the command — the orchestrator reads this workflow at runtime and cannot pick it up from docs/. With no growth left, the acknowledgment is unnecessary and its byte delta was no longer true, so the shared ack fragment is restored byte-identical to base. Refs #2596 * docs(#2596): add the how-to for interpreting scope-conformance warnings The docs for this change were entirely Reference — the flag and the warning codes — with the task-oriented quadrant empty. Adds the page that answers the question an operator actually has when the advisory fires: what the two codes mean, that nothing is blocked so there is no failure to hunt for, how to tell whether the executor over-reached or the plan under-declared, and the three ways the check legitimately stays silent so an absence of warnings is not mistaken for proof of conformance. Refs #2596 * chore(#2596): backfill changeset pr number to 3264 --------- Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
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
- Interpret scope-conformance warnings — read the advisory the worktree-wave merge emits when a plan branch commits outside its declared scope
- 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
- Ship a reviewer lane in your capability — declare a
reviewerbody so/gsd-reviewdiscovers, invokes, and renders your external review CLI or model endpoint - List your reviewer lane in the registry — publish a lane you have built to the Reviewer Lane Registry so other people can find and install it
- Take over a capability or EoS integration — assume maintainership of an existing third-party capability, reviewer lane, or EoS host integration through a handoff, an adoption fork, first-party absorption, or a de-listing
- 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
- Gate predicates — canonical specification of the phase-gate predicate vocabulary
- 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- Workflow fragments — in-file
<!-- gsd:section -->marker grammar for fragmentizing workflow markdown at emission time - Reviewer Lane Registry — generated catalogue of third-party reviewer lanes, with their flags, transport, and install commands
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