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* fix(#3203): stop npm-global installs validating bundled agents against themselves getAgentsDir's claude branch derived the agents directory from __dirname, which is correct for repo runs and runtime-config-dir installs (where <root>/../agents IS the user's agents dir) but on an npm-global install resolves to the package's own bundled agents/, so checkAgentsInstalled validated the package against itself and agents_installed could never be false. The new-project and new-milestone halt/warn gates were silently dead for npm-global users. Keep the install-relative path for the shapes where it is correct, but when it lies inside a node_modules tree — the provably self-validating case — resolve getGlobalConfigDir('claude')/agents like every other runtime, honouring CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR. GSD_AGENTS_DIR stays priority 1. Repair the doc comment that asserted the __dirname form was correct for both install shapes. Regression test mirrors the published npm-global layout (package under node_modules with a complete bundled agents/) and pins the resolved directory plus the issue's negative control (one agent missing from the config dir → agents_installed:false). Verified red against pre-fix code, green post-fix; the repo-layout W010 health test stays green. * chore(#3203): set changeset fragment pr to 3229 * docs(#3203): describe the node_modules guard as lexical, in CONTEXT.md and at the call site The Agent Install Check Module glossary entry asserted that Claude resolves the agents directory `__dirname`-relative unconditionally. That is the premise this PR falsified: on an npm-global install the install-relative path resolves to the package's own bundled `agents/`, so the check validated the package against itself and `agents_installed` could never be false. The inline doc comment above `getAgentsDir` was repaired with the fix; this external predicate was left behind and has been false since. CONTRIBUTING.md's `Fixed`-fragment docs exemption names this case explicitly — "Edit the docs anyway if a fix corrects something the docs got wrong." Both surfaces now describe the guard as what it is: an exact, case-sensitive path-segment test that TARGETS those layouts rather than detecting them, so neither claims more certainty than the predicate has. The call-site comment carried the same conflation the glossary did. A path merely carrying a directory of that name resolves the same way — the edge already disclosed on this PR — and a non-empty GSD_AGENTS_DIR overrides it. Comment-only in `src/`; no behaviour change. `CONFIG.LOCATION.SEAM.two-families` needs no change: `GSD_AGENTS_DIR -> getAgentsDir priority 1` is still accurate. --------- Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
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, Antigravity CLI, Kimi CLI, Kilo, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, and more.
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:
- Discuss — capture implementation decisions before anything is planned
- Plan — research, decompose, and verify the plan fits a fresh context window
- Execute — run plans in parallel waves; each executor starts with a clean 200k-token context
- Verify — walk through what was built; diagnose and fix before declaring done
- 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 |
| Discord | Community support |
Star History
License
MIT License. See LICENSE for details.
Claude Code is powerful. GSD Core makes it reliable.