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* docs: design spec for /gsd smart-entry command
Hybrid approach porting gsd-pi's smart-entry wizard to gsd-core:
deterministic classifier (gsd-tools smart-entry --json) + markdown
command/workflow with AskUserQuestion + --text fallback. Routing-first
('what now?' menu), 10 situations redesigned for gsd-core's phase loop.
* feat: add /gsd-start smart-entry command
State-aware front door adapted from gsd-pi's smart-entry wizard,
redesigned for gsd-core's markdown-first, multi-runtime architecture.
- src/smart-entry.cts: deterministic situation classifier (no-project,
paused, blocked, verify-failed, needs-first-phase, planning, executing,
verify-pending, idle-stranded, complete, unknown). Reads STATE.md,
ROADMAP.md, git, and verify signals; emits JSON the workflow consumes.
- gsd-tools.cjs: wire case + help listing.
- commands/gsd/start.md + gsd-core/workflows/gsd.md: thin markdown
dispatcher presenting an AskUserQuestion menu (with --text fallback for
non-Claude runtimes) and dispatching to existing commands. Falls back
to /gsd:progress if detection is unavailable.
- help.md: document /gsd:start (parity with bug-2954).
- tests: smart-entry.unit.test.cjs (classifier behavior across all
situations + priority + JSON shape) and gsd-workflow.structure.test.cjs
(markdown-layer invariants + every emitted command resolves to a real
slash command).
Spec: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-27-gsd-smart-entry-design.md
Note: command-contract (ADR-0002) requires a gsd:* prefix, so the bare
/gsd from the spec surfaces as /gsd-start.
* refactor: rename smart-entry command to /gsd:next
Rename the command from /gsd:start to /gsd:next per feedback. The
command file is now commands/gsd/next.md (name: gsd:next) and the
backing workflow is gsd-core/workflows/smart-entry.md (named for the
smart-entry classifier and gsd-tools smart-entry subcommand; does not
collide with the existing workflows/next.md, which is the progress
--next sub-workflow). help.md and the spec updated to match.
All affected tests (188) pass; lint:ci clean.
* fix: smart-entry reads real STATE.md schema (nested progress YAML + body Phase field)
Codex review found the classifier misread this repo's own STATE.md: it
looked only for scalar current_phase/total_phases frontmatter and body
fields named 'Current Phase'/'Total Phases', but real STATE.md stores
the phase as body 'Phase: N' and total_phases/percent under a nested
'progress:' YAML object. Both came back null, so active projects
(e.g. this repo at Phase 3 / verifying) wrongly classified as
needs-first-phase.
- detectSignals now reads total_phases + percent from nested progress{}
first, then scalar fm, then body; current_phase falls back to the
body 'Phase:' field (parseProsePhaseField lineage).
- Add regression tests against the real schema (nested progress YAML +
body Phase field) covering verify-pending + executing situations.
Verified against this repo: now classifies verify-pending (was
needs-first-phase). Coverage 93.25% lines / 86.99% branches.
* fix(workflow): tiered fallback when gsd-tools is broken (not just smart-entry)
Live test exposed a self-defeating fallback: when smart-entry --json
failed because gsd-tools itself was broken (missing
markdown-sectionizer.cjs), the workflow fell back to /gsd:progress —
which also depends on gsd-tools and would dead-end too.
Replace the single /gsd:progress fallback with a tiered recovery:
1. Probe gsd_run state-snapshot. If it ALSO errors, the whole tool
layer is down — read .planning/STATE.md directly with the Read tool
and synthesize a minimal situation + actions menu so /gsd:next stays
useful. Surface a rebuild hint.
2. Only if smart-entry alone is missing (older gsd-core), fall back to
/gsd:progress as before.
Matches the direct-read resilience the live agent already did by hand.
* docs: add gsd-next skill surface
* chore: trigger no-mistakes validation
* no-mistakes(review): Fix smart-entry phase ordering
* no-mistakes(review): Fix decimal smart-entry phase ordering
* no-mistakes(test): Fix smart-entry next test contracts
* no-mistakes(document): Docs synced for smart entry
* chore: add changeset fragment for #1798 (/gsd:next smart-entry workflow)
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* fix: shorten next.md description and update golden install parity fixtures
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* fix: update /gsd-next refs to /gsd:next in docs and add Smart Entry topic alias
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* chore: trigger no-mistakes validation
* fix: regenerate INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json for new /gsd-next files
Full CI caught that adding commands/gsd/next.md + gsd-core/workflows/smart-entry.md
left docs/INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json stale (not in the affected-test scope that
no-mistakes' test gate runs, so it surfaced in CI). Regenerated via
node scripts/gen-inventory-manifest.cjs --write; inventory-manifest-sync
test now passes.
* fix: add 'next' to core_loop cluster, update INVENTORY-MANIFEST, fix gates.md ref
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* fix: regenerate golden install parity fixtures for /gsd:next
Full CI (shard 3/3) caught that adding commands/gsd/next.md + the
smart-entry workflow/lib made the per-runtime golden install parity
fixtures stale across all 16 runtimes. Regenerated via
UPDATE_GOLDEN=1 node --test tests/golden-install-parity.test.cjs.
All 16 fixtures + inventory-manifest-sync now pass.
* Fix smart-entry verify-failed phase scoping and empty resolve shim step
Scope detectVerifyFailed to STATE.md's current phase so leftover higher
phase directories cannot force verify-failed routing. Move the gsd_run
shim resolver into the workflow resolve step so agents define gsd_run
before the detect step runs smart-entry.
* fix: recapture golden fixtures with updated gates.md hash (/gsd:next)
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* fix: recapture all 16 golden fixtures with updated smart-entry.md hash
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* chore: regenerate fixtures + inventory manifest after rebase onto next
Rebased onto next which adopted #1837 (package-version normalization to
<VERSION> in golden-install-parity hashes). Recaptured the golden fixture
that needed it (hermes), re-sorted INVENTORY-MANIFEST.json, and regenerated
the gsd-next / ns-workflow skill descriptions to match the command surface.
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* refactor(#1787): delegate /gsd:next in-project advancement to gated /gsd:progress --next
Reconciles the /gsd:next smart-entry front door with the existing
/gsd:progress --next engine (davesienkowski review on PR #1798). The
classifier previously recommended /gsd:execute-phase directly for the
`executing` situation, bypassing workflows/next.md Route 0
(resume-incomplete-phase invariant, #160) and Gates 1-3 — reproducing the
duplication that got the old flat /gsd-next removed (#3054), plus a
correctness hazard (executing the recorded current phase while an earlier
phase is silently incomplete).
Now planning/executing/verify-pending recommend `/gsd:progress --next`
(single gated engine); the specific command stays an explicit secondary.
Off-path states (no-project, paused, blocked, verify-failed,
idle-stranded, complete) keep direct recommendations — smart-entry's
distinct value over --next. Adds docs/adr/1787-gsd-next-smart-entry.md and
a regression test locking the delegation contract.
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* docs(#1787): avoid literal /gsd-next token in ADR (bug-3054 guard)
The repo-invariants #3054 guard bans the removed /gsd-next slash form in
docs surfaces. Refer to the removed command as `gsd-next` (prose) — the
historical reference is unchanged, just the banned token is dropped.
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* chore: gitignore compiled host-integration-sdk + handshake-serialized .cjs
Pre-existing gap from #1683: these two src/*.cts modules compile to
gsd-core/bin/lib/*.cjs but were omitted from the per-file ignore list, so
`npm run build`/`npm test` left them as untracked build artifacts (dirty
tree + accidental-commit footgun). Adds them alongside their siblings
(host-integration.cjs, mcp-server.cjs, …). Found while finishing #1798.
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* test(#1787): lock per-situation action invariants for all 11 situations + ADR typo
Adversarial-review follow-ups:
- Add a test asserting every situation's action set has exactly one
recommended action, 1-4 unique-id /gsd:* actions (previously the
one-recommended/1-4 invariant was only sampled for 6 of 11 situations).
- Fix ADR typo: /gsd-progress → /gsd:progress.
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* fix(#1798): split oversized test chunks so a slow shard can't trip the per-chunk timeout
Root-cause of the intermittent `full test (windows-latest, 22, shard 1/3)`
failure. It was NOT a leaked handle (the runner's kill message guesses that,
but --test-force-exit already exits leaks cleanly). Diagnosis:
- Ran every shard-1/3 file WITHOUT --test-force-exit + a 45s kill-timer:
zero hangs, zero leaks — every file self-exits. So no leaked handle / hang.
- CI activity profile: output kept flowing (slowly) right up to the 600.0s
kill — a dead hang would go silent. => pure slowness.
- Per-file timing: install-minimal-hooks.test.cjs is a 4987-line / 250-case
consolidation file doing dozens of real installs — 41s even on a fast Mac
(much worse on the slow Windows I/O path), plus an install-heavy cluster.
Mechanism: MAX_FILES_PER_CHUNK=180 packed the whole ~171-file shard into ONE
`node --test` chunk, so the entire shard's wall-clock ran against a single
600s per-chunk backstop. On slow Windows runners that single chunk crossed
600s and was killed mid-run — an intermittent false-negative gate that also
hits `next` directly.
Fix: lower MAX_FILES_PER_CHUNK 180 -> 90 so each shard splits into ~2 chunks,
each with its own fresh 600s budget and a fresh node process (also relieves
per-process memory pressure). Verified locally: shard 1/3 now runs as
chunk 1/2 (90 files) + chunk 2/2 (81 files), 5323 tests, 0 fail. Also made the
timeout kill-message name slowness as a cause instead of asserting a leak, so
the next debugger isn't sent hunting a nonexistent handle leak.
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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-closed gates
- Architecture — system architecture, agent model, and data flow
- 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
- Root README — landing page, quickstart, and documentation overview
- Changelog — release history