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* fix(#4455): thread workstream-scoped paths through autonomous and complete-milestone workflows autonomous.md and complete-milestone.md read/wrote hardcoded literal `.planning/STATE.md` / `.planning/ROADMAP.md` / `.planning/milestones/...` paths in their shell fences, bypassing workstream scoping entirely. With GSD_WORKSTREAM=alpha set, planningDir(cwd) correctly resolves into workstreams/alpha/, but a literal `cat .planning/STATE.md` still read the ROOT file (or silently returned empty if root state was absent) -- reproduced deterministically in the issue's own repro. Root cause: each workflow step's bash fence is a separate shell invocation, and cmdInitManager/cmdInitCompleteMilestone's JSON payloads never carried resolved state_path/roadmap_path/archive_dir fields for the workflows to extract -- unlike cmdInitPlanPhase, which already does this correctly and is the pattern this fix mirrors. - src/init.cts: cmdInitManager and cmdInitCompleteMilestone now emit state_path/roadmap_path (workstream-scoped via planningDir(cwd), existence-checked, toPosixPath'd, null when absent -- identical to cmdInitPlanPhase's existing contract) and archive_dir (the milestone archive directory, composed the same way milestone.cts's already-correct archive helper does per #1911). - autonomous.md: discover_phases and iterate now extract state_path via the already-fetched INIT_MANAGER payload instead of hardcoding `.planning/STATE.md`; iterate's second, previously-separate hardcoded read is folded into the same fence (no double-fetch); lifecycle step 5b checks the resolved archive_dir instead of a hardcoded milestones path. - complete-milestone.md's reorganize_roadmap_and_delete_originals step (which previously called no init command at all) now fetches init.complete-milestone and uses the resolved roadmap_path/state_path/ archive_dir for the backlog read, the write-guard sentinel's armed content, the Write-tool target for the reorganized ROADMAP.md (the sentinel fence now echoes the resolved path so the executing agent can see it), and the safety-commit --files list. `.planning/MILESTONES.md` and `.planning/PROJECT.md` stay literal root paths -- documented shared files, per the issue's explicit "not a blanket replacement" scope. Regression tests extract and execute the real bash fences (with a stubbed gsd_run) rather than string-matching the markdown, covering flat mode (unaffected), an active workstream (the issue's own repro shape, now correctly resolving), the no-double-fetch requirement, and a dedicated guard locking MILESTONES.md/PROJECT.md as shared. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(#4455): add changeset for workstream-scoped autonomous/complete-milestone fix Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(#4455): close write-guard gap on workstream-scoped curated paths Isolated security review of the #4455 fix (workstream-scoped STATE/ ROADMAP/milestone-archive path resolution in autonomous.md and complete-milestone.md) flagged that hooks/gsd-write-guard.js's CURATED_PATTERNS only matched root-level .planning/ paths, never .planning/[<project>/]workstreams/<ws>/... — meaning the catastrophic- shrink guard silently never engaged for a workstream-scoped write. This is directly relevant here: the #4455 change makes a workstream- scoped ROADMAP.md Write reachable via complete-milestone.md's own explicit sentinel-hatch instructions, which assume guard protection that did not actually exist for that path shape. Extended CURATED_PATTERNS with the three workstream-scoped equivalents; consumeSentinelFor's own path-derivation logic needed no change since it derives from the actual write target. Verified empirically (a 293->16 line workstream ROADMAP.md shrink now correctly returns exit 2 / decision:"block") and with 5 new regression tests. Also addressed a code-review nit on the core #4455 fix: cmdInitCompleteMilestone called planningDir(cwd) three separate times instead of caching it once. Accepted as-is (not fixed): complete-milestone.md's reorganize_roadmap_and_delete_originals step re-fetches `gsd_run query init.complete-milestone` three times across its fences rather than merging the first two (no state-changing Write between them, unlike autonomous.md's iterate step which does merge). This is an efficiency nit, not a correctness bug — merging risks disrupting the step's prose flow and its existing binding test for a non-functional gain. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(#4455): add changeset for the write-guard workstream-scope fix Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(#4455): fix gsd-test-surfaced regressions from workstream-path fix Running gsd-test against the full #4455 diff (including the write-guard security fix and the cmdInitCompleteMilestone caching nit) surfaced four real, non-flaky failures, all direct consequences of editing gsd-core/workflows/autonomous.md and complete-milestone.md: 1. tests/autonomous-converge.test.cjs pinned the OLD hardcoded `STATE_CONTENT=$(cat .planning/STATE.md ...)` read in both discover_phases and iterate. That is exactly the literal-path behavior #4455 fixes, so the test needed updating to assert the new init.manager-resolved `STATE_PATH` read instead (with an explicit doesNotMatch guard against regressing to the old literal). 2. tests/workstream-scoped-paths.test.cjs's own "no-double-fetch" test counted gsd_run invocations via a shell variable incremented inside the stub function — but `INIT_MANAGER=$(gsd_run ...)` runs gsd_run inside the command-substitution SUBSHELL, so that increment never survives back to the parent shell and the counter always read 0. Switched to a file-based call log (one byte appended per call), which survives the subshell boundary. 3. tests/compact-content-partition-guard.test.cjs's disjointness check flagged the reorganize_roadmap_and_delete_originals step's new `INIT_CM=$(gsd_run query init.complete-milestone)` fetch (added 3x, per the accepted-as-is disposition in the prior commit) as byte-identical to a pre-existing, unrelated fetch already present in complete-milestone/detail/elaboration.md's handle_branches section (§2). Same idiom, same conventional variable name, coincidentally colliding across the spine/detail split boundary. Renamed the new step's local variable to INIT_REORG — a distinct, purpose-specific name is arguably better practice anyway for two logically unrelated fetches, and it removes the literal collision honestly rather than restructuring the split. 4. tests/benchmark-compact-content.test.cjs reported real byte-count drift in the committed baseline (autonomous.md and complete-milestone.md both grew from the #4455 content). Refreshed via `node scripts/benchmark-compact-content.cjs --write`. Verified: node scripts/benchmark-compact-content.cjs --check now reports the baseline up to date; a standalone invocation of checkDisjointness() against the real repo state now reports zero violations across all 6 registered splits; manual bash-fence execution of both the autonomous.md iterate fence (call count = 1) and the complete-milestone.md backlog fence (with INIT_REORG) confirms correct behavior. Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: autonomous.md — #4455 workstream-scoped STATE.md path resolution replaces hardcoded literal reads Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth: complete-milestone.md — #4455 workstream-scoped STATE/ROADMAP/archive path resolution replaces hardcoded literal reads Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(#4455): MILESTONES.md/PROJECT.md/REQUIREMENTS.md are workstream-scoped too, and so is project-only mode Fresh isolated code-review and security-review passes against the full diff (run after the previous gsd-test-surfaced fixups landed) each found one real, confirmed defect: Code review: the safety-commit `--files` list and the REQUIREMENTS.md `git rm` step both hardcoded `.planning/MILESTONES.md`, `.planning/PROJECT.md`, and `.planning/REQUIREMENTS.md` as literal root paths — but src/milestone.cts's cmdMilestoneComplete writes MILESTONES.md via `planningPaths(cwd).planning` (the workstream base) and PROJECT.md/REQUIREMENTS.md resolve the same way through `planningPaths().project`/`.requirements` (src/planning-workspace.cts). Only `todos` is the documented root-scoped exception (#4256); an earlier version of this fix wrongly generalized that exception to MILESTONES.md/PROJECT.md too, and the now-corrected test previously enshrined that wrong behavior as intended. Under an active workstream, the safety commit would have silently missed the actual files `milestone complete` just wrote, and the git-rm step would have targeted the wrong (root) REQUIREMENTS.md entirely. Fixed by exposing `milestones_path`/`project_path`/`requirements_path` from init.complete-milestone (src/init.cts) and resolving all three through them, the same pattern already used for state_path/roadmap_path/ archive_dir. The four remaining literal MILESTONES.md/PROJECT.md mentions elsewhere in complete-milestone.md (lines ~12-13, ~441, ~607, ~662) are display-only prose in status/summary message templates, not actual file operations — left as-is; they are a cosmetic path-display inaccuracy under an active workstream, not a data-integrity bug like the two fixed here. Security review: confirmed the write-guard fix from the prior commit is correct and complete for workstream scoping, and independently surfaced the same project-only gap the code-review pass above also caught structurally: `CURATED_PATTERNS` had no pattern for `.planning/<project>/...` (GSD_PROJECT set, GSD_WORKSTREAM unset) — planningDir(cwd) supports that shape independently of workstream nesting, so it is reachable, not hypothetical. Fixed by adding three more patterns, verified empirically (a project-scoped 292->16 line ROADMAP.md shrink now correctly returns exit 2 / decision:"block") and with 6 new regression tests. Verified: manual bash-fence execution of the corrected commit-files and requirements-rm fences (both flat mode and GSD_WORKSTREAM=alpha) resolves to the right paths in both cases; a standalone invocation of checkDisjointness() against the real repo state still reports zero violations; the benchmark baseline was refreshed again for the further size change (already covered by the existing Emitted-Drift-Ack-Growth trailer on complete-milestone.md two commits back — that trailer is read over the whole merge-base..HEAD range, not per-commit, so it still applies here). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(#4455): backfill changeset PR numbers and correct final scope pr: 0 -> pr: 4542 for both fragments, and updated both bodies to reflect the final fix scope (MILESTONES/PROJECT/REQUIREMENTS are workstream-scoped too, not shared-root exceptions; the write-guard fix also covers project-only scoping, not just workstream nesting). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(#4455): lifecycle-5b archive-path assertions use the fence's own separator, not path.join PR CI's windows-latest shard 3/3 failed: "expected ls to find the root archive file, got: ...\milestones-root/v1.0-ROADMAP.md". The autonomous.md lifecycle step 5b fence composes the checked path with a literal bash `/` (`"${ARCHIVE_DIR}/v${milestone_version}-ROADMAP.md"`), which on Windows yields a MIXED-separator path — Windows backslashes from archiveDir plus one trailing `/`. My test's assertion used path.join(archiveDir, 'v1.0-ROADMAP.md') instead, which on a Windows Node process produces an all-backslash path that never matches the fence's mixed-separator output. Both assertions in that describe block now mirror the fence's own literal `/` concatenation (`${archiveDir}/v1.0-ROADMAP.md`) instead of path.join — matching the style the other two describe blocks in this same file (safety-commit --files list) already used correctly for the identical archive-dir pattern, so this brings the one outlier into line rather than introducing a new idiom. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(#4455): write-guard sentinel comparison now realpath-resolves the token, not just the target PR CI's macos-latest full-test shard 2/3 failed a #4455 test: "the sentinel hatch ... unblocks a workstream ROADMAP.md write" got status 2 (still blocked) instead of 0. Root cause, unrelated to the Windows fix in the previous commit: hooks/gsd-write-guard.js's main flow realpath-resolves the Write TARGET before the curated-pattern match (round 9 Minor 1's symlink-before-match fix, `filePath = fs.realpathSync(filePath)`), but consumeSentinelFor resolved the sentinel TOKEN's absolute path via plain path.resolve() with no realpath step. On macOS, os.tmpdir() resolves through a /var -> /private/var symlink, so a test's cwd (lexically under /var/folders/...) and its realpath'd target (/private/var/folders/...) diverge — an armed, correct sentinel then never matches the realpath'd target string, and the guard stays incorrectly blocked. This is not macOS-specific in principle: ANY cwd sitting under a symlink (a symlinked project checkout, a symlinked worktree) hits the same asymmetry — gsd-test's Linux bench runs never caught it because /tmp there is not a symlink. Fixed by applying the same fs.realpathSync (with the same keep-lexical-on-failure fallback the caller already uses) to the token's resolved path before comparing. The named file is already known to exist at this point (the caller only reaches consumeSentinelFor after successfully reading the target), so realpath is expected to succeed in the legitimate case; a garbage/mismatched token still fails safe (verified — falls back to the lexical path, still mismatches, stays blocked). Verified: reproduced the exact bug locally (macOS) via os.tmpdir() before the fix, confirmed it resolves after; the negative case (sentinel armed for a DIFFERENT file) still correctly blocks; the pre-existing relative-token sentinel tests (predating #4455) still pass; a garbage/non-existent token still fails safe. Added a deterministic, cross-platform regression test using an explicit symlink (skipped on Windows, matching the existing round-9 symlink test's own skip condition) so this class of bug is caught by gsd-test's Linux bench too, not only by a real macOS CI run. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local> Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.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.