Tom Boucher ac1b6d679f enhance(#3618): fold fallow-runner onto the canonical binary resolver (epic #3411 Phase 2) (#3633)
* chore(#3618): fold fallow-runner onto the canonical binary resolver

Epic #3411 Phase 2. src/fallow-runner.cts was the fourth divergent
implementation of Windows binary resolution the epic enumerated —
candidateNames, isExecutableFile, findInPath, findInNodeModules, 40 lines.
All four are deleted; resolveFallowBinary is one seam call.

Two OPT-IN options were added to resolveExecutableBinary to make the fold
behavior-preserving, both defaulting off so Phase 1's callers are byte-identical:

  prependPaths      dirs searched before env.PATH, in order, through the
                    identical per-directory candidate logic. This expresses
                    node_modules/.bin-first precedence without env surgery —
                    the rejected alternative re-introduced the
                    spread-loses-the-proxy hazard the Windows lane caught in
                    Phase 1, at every future call site instead of once.
  requireExecutable POSIX-only accessSync(X_OK); a no-op on win32 where mode
                    bits do not mean execute. Opt-in rather than default
                    because unconditional X_OK breaks #3445's suite, which
                    stages candidates with plain writeFileSync and never sets
                    an exec bit — the repo bans chmod in tests — so every one
                    would resolve to null on POSIX.

Deliberate behavior change on Windows: fallow's prior candidate list ended in a
BARE fallow. The seam never tries a bare name there, so an extensionless file
beside fallow.cmd is no longer resolved. That is the fix, not a regression — the
extensionless file is npm's POSIX sh shim, which CreateProcess cannot run
(#3275). Rows 7 and 8 of the design record it.

Defect found while working, fixed inline: the resolution order was documented
BACKWARDS as PATH-then-.bin in structural-pre-pass.md, docs/INVENTORY.md and
four INVENTORY translations. The code has always been .bin first, and .bin first
is correct — a project-local tool should beat a global one. The archived
changeset is left alone as a historical record.

fallow-runner had no test file at all. tests/fallow-runner.test.cjs is new
(F1-F15) and the seam options are pinned by S1-S12 folded into the existing
dispatch suite. RED proven by execution: with both source files stashed and
build:lib re-run, 7 of 27 probe cases failed.

Refs #3411

* chore(#3618): backfill changeset pr number 3633

* fix(#3618): assert both platform contracts in F4 instead of a POSIX-only premise

Windows CI on #3633 failed F4. The test monkeypatched accessSync to throw and
asserted resolveFallowBinary returned null — but that premise, that the X_OK
check is consulted at all, is POSIX-only by design. requireExecutable is a
deliberate no-op on win32 because Windows mode bits do not mean execute, so the
staged fixture correctly resolved there.

40-design.md's negative-space section already states this carve-out verbatim.
The test contradicted the design it was written from: fixtures were made
platform-adaptive in the previous commit, and this assertion was left
platform-blind.

F4 now asserts BOTH contracts — null on POSIX, resolves on win32 — rather than
skipping either. A t.skip on one lane would have been green and would have left
the win32 carve-out unpinned by fallow's own entry point.

Audited every other row for the same class. F1-F3, F5, F6, F11-F15 hold on both
platforms; F7-F10 and S1-S12 inject platform explicitly and are unaffected. F4
was the only row with a single-platform premise.

The local probe runs on one platform and structurally cannot catch this, which
is why it was green — that limitation is now stated at the top of the probe so a
green probe is not mistaken for platform coverage. The win32 branch was proven
by injecting platform:'win32' with accessSync throwing and asserting it still
resolves.

Refs #3411

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-18 15:32:57 -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 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
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License

MIT License. See LICENSE for details.


Claude Code is powerful. GSD Core makes it reliable.

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