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Fold all 10 residual isWindsurf branches in bin/install.js onto descriptor-driven hostBehaviors (byte-parity — no fold changes any install output): - 2 dead destructures dropped (uninstall, finishInstall); the dead `else if (isWindsurf)` legacy agent-loop arm removed (windsurf ∈ _DESCRIPTOR_AGENTS_RUNTIMES → unreachable). - skipSharedHooksInstall:true folds the two `!isWindsurf` shared-hooks exclusions. - legacyDevinSkillsCleanup:true folds the `.devin`→`.windsurf` one-time cleanup gate. - installsCommandBodiesForWorkflowDelegation:true folds the #1629 command-body copy (workflow-delegation target — load-bearing; local-install verified intact). - verificationStyle:"windsurf-workflows" folds the workflow-count report. - Corrected stale _LEGACY_SCAN_SUBDIR_NAMES + hooks-json manifest comments (cursor + windsurf). Zero live runtime==='windsurf'/isWindsurf branches remain across bin/install.js, install-engine.cts, surface.cts, runtime-artifact-conversion.cts (AC2 guard scans all four). UPGRADE (Cascade hook bus): wire GSD's write/command safety guards into Windsurf's native hook bus. New hooksSurface 'windsurf-hooks-json' (VALID_HOOKS_SURFACES 7→8, GATE A profile-marker-only allowlist, the HooksSurface union) + writeWindsurfHooksJson (Cursor-templated, Cascade's flat {hooks:{<event>:[{command}]}} shape) writing .windsurf/hooks.json with two BLOCKING pre-hooks: - pre_write_code → gsd-windsurf-pre-write.js: blocks writes to a file outside the active git worktree / into .git internals. - pre_run_command → gsd-windsurf-pre-command.js: conservative destructive-command deny-list (rm -rf of root/home incl. sudo/env/path-prefixed forms; fork bombs; force-push refspec forms — HEAD:main, +main, --force/-f — to main/master/next). Both use Cascade's protocol (stdin JSON, exit 2 + stderr to block, exit 0 to allow, fail-open on error/timeout). Tokenize-based classifier (no catastrophic-backtracking regex; 4096-char cap) with the fail-closed false-positives fixed post-review. The 4 advisory GSD guards + pre_mcp_tool_use + 5 post_* logging events are deliberately NOT wired: Cascade has no context-injection channel for advisory hooks and GSD has no MCP guard — porting them would be non-functional padding (documented; codebuddy #2098 / copilot #2099 faithful-subset precedent). extendedHookEvents stays []. Golden: the 2 guard scripts ship in the shared hook bundle (HOOKS_TO_COPY + the shared managed-hooks-registry), exactly like cursor's 6 gsd-cursor-*.js scripts — so the 8 shared-bundle runtimes' fixtures gain the 2 inert windsurf scripts + the registry hash (functionally inert for non-windsurf; the established cursor pattern). No install-output change beyond that (the folds are byte-parity; skip-bundle runtimes untouched). New scripts registered in managed-hooks-registry + build-hooks + INVENTORY. Tests: declarative-reference- windsurf (adapter/axes/fail-closed + AC2 guard) + windsurf-hooks-bridge (live exit-2 blocking + allow/fail-open + ReDoS-bound + writer/reconcile/remove idempotency); VALID_HOOKS_SURFACES pin updated to 8. Matrix hookBus delta + changeset (Changed). capability-registry regenerated. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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-open load-failure warnings
- 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