Tom Boucher ae8bb707bc refactor(#1170): remove hand-maintained INVENTORY count scalars (#1179)
* refactor(#1170): remove hand-maintained INVENTORY count scalars

The `(N shipped)` heading counts in docs/INVENTORY.md were absolute
scalars that collided silently on merge: two branches each bumping the
same integer to N+1 produced a clean git merge whose value the merged
filesystem (N+2) contradicted, hard-failing inventory-counts.test.cjs on
the CI merge commit across all platforms (DEFECT.INVENTORY-MERGE-UNDERCOUNT).

- Strip the six `(N shipped)` heading counts + the two prose footnote
  counts; repoint the intro to INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json as the registry.
- Drop the decorative `generated` date from the manifest + its
  strip-before-compare branch in gen-inventory-manifest.cjs (it conflicted
  on cross-day merges and is read by nothing).
- Delete inventory-counts.test.cjs (scalar-vs-disk gate, the collision
  source); its drift protection is subsumed by the merge-safe set-membership
  test inventory-manifest-sync.test.cjs, which stays as the sole gate.
- Add inventory-headings-countfree.test.cjs guard (fails if a count is
  re-added to a heading).
- Fix already-broken count-bearing cross-doc anchors to stable count-free
  slugs in ARCHITECTURE.md + multi-agent-orchestration.md.
- Retire the now-impossible DEFECT.INVENTORY-MERGE-UNDERCOUNT + obsolete
  RULESET.DOC-CONSISTENCY in CONTEXT.md; de-count DEFECT.INVENTORY-DRIFT;
  correct stale MANIFEST-CANONICAL-KEY (all six families canonical).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(#1170): backfill changeset PR number (#1179)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-13 21:30:03 -04:00

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, Gemini 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, Gemini 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, Gemini 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 your first project:

/gsd-new-project

New here? Follow Your first project for a guided walkthrough from install to first shipped phase.


Documentation

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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