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* 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 --------- 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
- Resolve an unreachable-workflow finding — wire or fully sweep a shipped workflow that no command, agent, or skill references
- Resolve a contract-drift finding — bring an agent's completion contract, read-tag gate, or deleted-file test reference back into agreement with the registry
- Resolve unreachable-guard findings — fix shell guards whose fallback arm cannot run, and tell "nothing to report" apart from "could not look"
- Resolve an ESLint glob-coverage finding — bring a source file that matches no lint rule under coverage, or record a reasoned exemption
- Keep planning docs out of a shared repo — make
.planning/local-only, including untracking files git already tracks (the step.gitignorealone cannot do) - 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
- Catch complexity before it compounds — enable the post-execute refactor hook, read a proposal's score vs. anchor delta, and accept or decline it
- 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
- Control which host runtime GSD reports — read the
agent_runtimeladder, understand what host detection looks at, and pin the runtime when detection is not what you want - 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
- Interpret install-shadow warnings — read the advisory GSD Core emits when a
/gsd-*trigger is installed at both scopes and one silently wins, and tell "nothing to report" apart from "could not look" - Interpret
state validateresults — read thescopereason codes and tell "nothing to report" apart from "could not look" - 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 - Migrate an install test to the executed plan — convert an
fs.existsSync-probing install test group to a value assertion againstinstallRuntimeArtifacts's executed-plan return, and test against a fake fs adapter - 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 - JSON error mode —
gsd-toolsfailure channels: faults (stderr, exit 1) vs degraded results (stdout, exit 0), and the reason-code taxonomy - 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