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* fix(#2544): stage the CommonJS marker in GSD-owned dirs, not the config root installSharedHooksBundle wrote `{"type":"commonjs"}` over <configRoot>/package.json unconditionally — no existence check, no merge, no backup — on every install and every /gsd-update re-install. On the 11 affected runtimes that file is often user-owned; on OpenCode and Kilo it is the documented place to declare local-plugin npm dependencies, so a user's name/type/dependencies/scripts were destroyed on each run. The uninstall path already read the file and unlinked it only on an exact content match. That asymmetry was the defect: the discipline existed in the codebase, it just was not applied on the write side. Move the marker into the directories GSD creates and fills with its own .js files — hooks/ (all shared-hooks runtimes, incl. Kimi's own root) and the nativePlugin dir (plugins/ for OpenCode+Kilo, extensions/ for pi) — and stop writing the config root entirely. New src/commonjs-marker.cts owns the marker string plus one ownership predicate (absent / gsd-owned / foreign, fail-closed on an unreadable file) shared by ensureCommonJsMarker and removeCommonJsMarker, so install and uninstall cannot drift apart again. Nothing else depended on the config-root marker: package identity is baked at build time (#378/#498) and version resolution prefers gsd-core/VERSION and already tolerates a missing root package.json (#1383) — Codex has installed without one all along. A package.json in plugins/ or extensions/ is inert to plugin discovery, which globs *.{ts,js} only (see installer-migration 006). Uninstall retires the pre-fix config-root marker, so upgrading users are cleaned up on removal, and still never touches a file it did not write. * fix(#2544): point the changeset fragment at the filed PR The fragment's `pr:` field is only knowable after `gh pr create` returns. * fix(#2544): register commonjs-marker.cjs in the tsc-generated ESLint ignore set bin/lib/commonjs-marker.cjs is tsc output (src/commonjs-marker.cts is the linted source), so it belongs in the ADR-457 ignore list like its siblings. Clears the lint-tests no-var failure and the repo-invariants "linted xor ignored" migration-state test. * fix(#2544): pin the kimi CommonJS marker to hooks/, not the ~/.kimi root The UPGRADE 1 test still asserted the pre-#2544 marker location (~/.kimi/package.json). The marker now lives inside ~/.kimi/hooks — the directory GSD itself creates — matching the updated golden-install-parity and install-tree fixtures. Also asserts the root marker is NOT written. * fix(#2544): make the CommonJS marker write path non-fatal Review round 2, Major 3 + Minor 1 + the stagedHooks nit. ensureCommonJsMarker rethrew any non-EEXIST write error and neither call site caught it, so EACCES on a read-only hooks/, EROFS, or ENOSPC aborted the whole install with a raw stack trace. Every other marker interaction in the module is best-effort — removeCommonJsMarker swallows unlink failures, classifyMarker swallows read failures — and this was the write path, i.e. the one most likely to fail on a locked-down config dir. It now returns a new 'failed' outcome and both call sites warn and continue. Sibling found while sweeping for the same defect class: fs.mkdirSync sat OUTSIDE the try block, so an unwritable parent threw past the guard entirely. Creating the directory is the same environmental hazard as writing into it, so it moved inside. Also in this file: - The hooks marker is now gated on `stagedHooks && hooksOk`, not stagedHooks alone. stagedHooks is computed from the SOURCE listing before the copy loop, so it stays true when the copies land but verifyInstalled() then fails — marking a hooks/ GSD did not successfully populate claims an ownership the install did not earn. - The uninstall rmdir of the native plugin dir is gated on GSD having actually removed something from it. Hoisting it out of the adapter-exists guard (so the marker-only case could prune) had silently widened it into deleting a user-created but empty plugins/ or extensions/ dir — the same "don't touch territory GSD didn't fill" principle this issue is about, inverted. - Kimi's pre-#2544 marker at its native hook root (~/.kimi) is retired at the same call site that writes its replacement. That path is outside kimi's configDir, so installer-migration 007 structurally cannot reach it. * fix(#2544): retire the stale config-root marker via installer-migration 007 Review round 2, Major 1 — the PR's headline claim was false for existing installs. Upgraders kept BOTH markers: the new one under hooks/ and the stale {"type":"commonjs"} at the config root, so their config root stayed pinned to CommonJS and their dependency manifest stayed gone until they uninstalled. The migration is unusual in one way, and it is the part worth reviewing: the config-root marker was never recorded in gsd-file-manifest.json (writeManifest records hooks/, agents/, commands/, scripts/ and the native plugin, never a root package.json), so classifyArtifact answers 'unknown' for it and the planner's own guard downgrades a remove-managed on an 'unknown' classification to preserve-user. 007 therefore supplies the "purpose-built detector for an old GSD-owned shape" that docs/installer-migrations.md#remove-managed sanctions — exact content match, the same predicate removeCommonJsMarker has always used — and declares the resulting classification on the action. A package.json with any other content is left untouched, and there is deliberately no backup-and-remove branch: a non-matching file here is not a patched GSD artifact, it is somebody else's file. Scope is all runtimes. The `runtimes` field is OMITTED rather than `[]`: validateStringArray requires the field to be non-empty WHEN PRESENT, while the runtime filter treats an empty array as "all" — so `runtimes: []` throws at plan time and the migration never runs. The metadata test pins this. Kimi is a deliberate carve-out, named in the migration's own header: its marker lived at ~/.kimi, outside kimi's configDir, and migration relPaths are structurally confined to configDir. It is retired by the installer instead. Registration: shipped-migrations table, .gitignore for the emitted .cjs, the EXPECTED_CHECKSUMS baseline, and the ESLint ignore set. That last one is not copied from migration 006 by rote — 006 needs no entry because it imports nothing, while 007 imports node builtins, so tsc emits its __importDefault helper and the `var` in it trips no-var. This is the same lint gate that made round 1 red. * test(#2544): fault-injection and multi-runtime marker coverage Review round 2, Major 2 + Minors 4 and 5. Major 2 — CONTRIBUTING.md:514-531 is mandatory for install/uninstall flows and the suite had no fs monkeypatching at all. Every branch now covered is one whose doc comment claims it as the module's safety posture: - classifyMarker non-ENOENT lstat error -> 'foreign' (the fail-closed rule), with an ENOENT control alongside it so the test discriminates rather than just asserting one side - classifyMarker readFileSync throw -> 'foreign' (present-but-unreadable never downgrades to the permissive answer) — the fixture's bytes are exactly GSD's marker, so the test fails if the code ever answers on content it could not read - a DIRECTORY at the marker path (CONTRIBUTING:521; the symlink case was already covered with a real symlink, the directory case needs no injection at all) - the ensureCommonJsMarker TOCTOU EEXIST branch — the entire reason for flag:'wx' - the new 'failed' outcome, for both writeFileSync (EACCES/EROFS/ENOSPC) and the mkdirSync that used to sit outside the guard - removeCommonJsMarker unlink throw -> false These save and restore fs methods in `finally` rather than using chmod 0o000, which does not fault under root and would pass vacuously in root Docker and CI. Minor 4 — uninstall was driven for opencode only. pi's extensions/ and both kimi locations now have behavioral coverage, install and uninstall, each paired with a user-authored-file case proving GSD leaves it alone. Minor 5 — the stagedHooks gate had no assertion behind its stated reason. A pre-existing, GSD-untouched hooks/ directory is now driven through a runtime that declares skipSharedHooksInstall and asserted to stay marker-free, with its user content intact. Also regression-tests the uninstall rmdir gate from the previous commit: an empty plugin dir GSD removed nothing from must survive. * docs(#2544): correct stale marker prose, register the module, document the trade-off Review round 2, Minors 2, 3 and 6. Minor 2 — six files asserted the installed ROOT ships the synthetic marker. None was load-bearing (all three walk-up consumers are VERSION-first with try/catch and the marker never carried a `version`), but ADR-457:52 is the rationale for keeping a generated module, so a future reader would mis-derive the constraint from it. Each site is corrected to what is now true: the installed tree carries no package.json with a .name at all, because the only ones GSD stages are {"type":"commonjs"} markers and they now live in GSD's own directories. Two of the six needed more than a location swap. hooks/gsd-check-update-worker.js and the platform-gate test both described `require('../package.json').name` resolving to undefined; post-#2544 that require does not resolve at all, so the history is kept accurate and the present-tense claim corrected rather than just moved. And src/runtime-artifact-conversion.cts described the no-root-package.json case as Codex-only — it is now every runtime, which strengthens that comment's own argument for lazy resolution. The generated .cjs sibling needs no edit: it is gitignored build output, not a tracked file. Minor 3 — src/commonjs-marker.cts had no CONTEXT.md entry, unlike every peer module, and CONTEXT.md is the #2 co-change partner of bin/install.js. Added, including the fail-closed posture and the never-throws contract. Minor 6 — the plugins//extensions/ marker shadows the config root for all .js siblings, so an OpenCode/Kilo user's ESM plugin/*.js stays broken. That is exactly what #2544's Fix section prescribed and it is disclosed in the PR body, but the PR body is not documentation. It now lives in the OpenCode section of docs/how-to/install-on-your-runtime.md, stated as a real constraint rather than a pure improvement, with the .ts mitigation and a fallback for ESM plugins. * test(#2544): attribute the CommonJS marker in the emitted-provenance rules The differential emitted-attribution gate (#2723, landed on `next` after this branch was cut) went red on the macOS shards once this PR rebased onto it. Two distinct causes, both real gaps rather than noise: 1. `plugins/package.json` and `extensions/package.json` matched NO rule — the `native-plugin` rule covers `*.{js,cjs,mjs}` only, so the marker read as an unattributed emitted family. 2. `hooks/package.json` fell through to `hooks-built`, which attributes an emitted `hooks/<X>` to a repo source `hooks/<X>`. There is no `hooks/package.json` in the repo, so it resolved to a nonexistent path. Cause 2 is exactly the failure already documented three lines above it for Copilot's `gsd-session.json` — "a code literal, not a built script" — so the fix follows that precedent rather than inventing one: `package.json` is excluded from `hooks-built` the same way, and a dedicated `commonjs-marker` rule attributes the family across all four roots it can appear in (both hooks roots plus `plugins`/`extensions`) to the sources that actually emit it. Deliberately a RULE, not an entry in tests/emitted-drift-ack.json. An ack is for a one-off ripple and goes stale by design — the gate fails a stale ack precisely so it cannot pre-clear the next change on that path. These markers are a permanent part of the emitted tree from #2544 onward, so they need standing attribution. Verified by reproducing the CI failure locally with GSD_EMITTED_BASE: 3 provenance errors + 12 unattributed paths before, 35/35 green after. * fix(#2544): route the #2717 hooks-surface marker helpers through commonjs-marker #2717 landed a second copy of ensureCommonJsMarker/removeCommonJsMarkerIfGsdOwned in src/runtime-hooks-surface.cts for the runtimes that stage .js hooks via dedicated paths (cursor/windsurf/codex). That copy had drifted from this PR's module on the two properties that matter: - ownership probe: `fs.existsSync` FOLLOWS symlinks and reports false for a DANGLING one, so a dangling package.json symlink classified as absent and the write went straight through it. Demonstrated: against the pre-fix copy, ensureCommonJsMarker() on a hooks/ dir holding a dangling package.json symlink returns true and creates {"type":"commonjs"} OUTSIDE that directory. - create: a plain writeFileSync leaves the classify->write window open, where commonjs-marker creates with flag:'wx' (O_EXCL). Both helpers now delegate to src/commonjs-marker.cts, which is what this PR's own docstring already claimed was the single place these rules are enforced. Exported signatures are unchanged (still boolean), so bin/install.js and the #2717 tests are unaffected. The new subtest is the only coverage that fails if the duplicate is ever reintroduced — the two implementations agree on every non-adversarial input, so the existing suites pass against both. * test(#2544): pin the stagedHooks gate on zcode, not windsurf The Minor-5 coverage picked windsurf because hostBehaviors.skipSharedHooksInstall kept it out of the shared hooks bundle, so GSD staged nothing into hooks/ and the marker was correctly absent. #2717 changed that premise: cursor/windsurf/codex now stage their .js hooks via dedicated paths and get the marker beside those scripts. Measured on this tree, windsurf stages 2 .js hooks and receives a marker — so the assertion was pinning behaviour that is now wrong, not the gate it was written for. ZCode is the durable choice: per #1821 it has hooksSurface:'none' AND no plugin surface to spawn hooks, so GSD stages no .js there by either route (measured: 0 staged, no marker). The property under test is unchanged — a user-created hooks/ directory GSD never fills stays marker-free. * test(#2544): use the shared cleanup helper in the migration test Addresses the review's Major 1. The suppression's stated reason — "no helpers import available" — was not correct: tests/helpers.cjs exports cleanup, and the other test file added in this same PR imports it (tests/commonjs-marker.test.cjs). The local reimplementation dropped two protections that are live on this repo's windows-latest lane: the CWD guard (Windows cannot remove a directory that is the current working directory) and the 20 x 250ms retry budget that absorbs the deferred-scan handle Windows Defender holds on newly-written files. Local function and suppression both removed; local/no-raw-rmsync-in-tests now passes without one. * test(#2544): expect hooks/package.json for the #2717 runtimes The fresh-install contract table predates #2717, which stages cursor/windsurf/ codex .js hooks via dedicated paths and writes the CommonJS marker beside them. All three therefore now receive hooks/package.json legitimately. Measured on this tree: codex stages 3 .js hooks, cursor 6, windsurf 2 — each with the marker; cline/copilot/trae/zcode stage none and get none, so their contracts are unchanged. * fix(#2544): gate the #2717 marker writes on having staged something The three dedicated marker writers #2717 added ran unconditionally. Each one mkdirs hooks/ up front and stages its scripts conditionally on the source existing, so with an absent or empty hook source they created a directory, filled it with nothing, and marked it as GSD's anyway. That is the same write-into-someone-else's-territory this issue is about, and installSharedHooksBundle already guards the identical case with `stagedHooks`. The dedicated paths now carry the matching gate: - cursor / windsurf: `installedScripts.size > 0` - codex: a new `codexStagedHooks` flag. The enclosing guard only proves that hooks/dist EXISTS; it says nothing about whether any CODEX_HOOKS_TO_COPY entry landed. Covered for cursor and windsurf by driving each writer against a src tree whose hooks/ dir is empty. The codex leg is defensive and deliberately uncovered: its trigger state needs a package tree where hooks/dist exists but holds none of the allowlist, which is not constructible from a real checkout. * test(#2544): scope the commonjs-marker sources per root The rule declared one flat source list for every marker root, so `extensions/package.json` was attributed to runtime-hooks-surface.cts (which never writes there) and `.kimi/hooks/package.json` to install-engine.cts. That is not merely untidy. emitted-diff.cjs accepts the FIRST satisfied source, so a flat list containing bin/install.js let any change anywhere in that 13k-line file authorise marker drift for every root — the blanket escape hatch this file's own agents-verbatim comment refuses for exactly the same reason. Sources are now derived per root from ctx.rel. Note the rule ctx is `{ rel, runtime }` and carries no `root`, so keying on ctx.root would have sent every path down one branch silently. * test(#2544): state precisely what the zcode assertion pins The comment claimed the test pinned installSharedHooksBundle's `stagedHooks` gate. It does not, and neither did the windsurf version it replaced: zcode declares skipSharedHooksInstall, so the outer guard skips that helper entirely and the gate is never evaluated. The test passes on the runtime exclusion. What it does pin — the outcome a pre-existing, GSD-untouched hooks/ stays marker-free — is still worth having, and is what the review asked for. The two `staging zero hook scripts` tests are the ones that pin a real staged-nothing gate. Comment corrected rather than left implying coverage that is not there. --------- Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
Architecture Decision Records
This directory contains Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for GSD.
Each ADR documents one architectural decision: what was decided, why, and what consequences follow. ADRs are append-only. Amendments extend existing ADRs with a dated section rather than replacing them.
Reading this corpus
Start with the index below, and respect the status. The index is grouped so that the first table — Active decisions — is the set that governs the system as it stands. An ADR in Superseded, Retired, and Legacy is historical: it records what was once decided and names what replaced it. Do not cite it as current architecture.
Two things the index makes explicit, because getting them wrong has actually misled readers here:
- "Read first" on an active ADR points at a broader ADR that now frames it. A decision can be entirely correct and still not be the whole picture. The runtime capability descriptor (ADR-1016) is live and load-bearing, but ADR-1239 (EoS — GSD as an Embeddable Orchestration Engine) subsumes it as the declarative adapter and inverts its direction: GSD is the engine a host embeds, not an installer that projects onto a host. For how GSD meets a host, EoS is the current frame.
Proposedmeans not ratified — and it is kept honest. On 2026-07-17 the corpus was audited against the shipped tree and nine ADRs whose decisions had demonstrably shipped were ratified toAccepted, each carrying a dated Ratification section with the evidence (see ADR-857 for the fullest example). The ADRs that remainProposedareProposedfor a reason recorded in the file — an unmet acceptance criterion, an outstanding phase, or a successor ADR already planned — not through neglect. Trust the label; if you think it is wrong, prove it in a dated section and see Ratifying a staleProposed.
Naming Convention
New ADRs use issue#-prefix slug naming:
docs/adr/<issue#>-<kebab-slug>.md
Examples: 2264-golden-parity-redesign.md, 1239-gsd-embeddable-orchestration-engine.md.
Why
Two developers computing "next ADR number" locally against main will independently pick the same integer and both ship. The collision is already on disk — 0010-* exists twice and 0011-* exists three times. GitHub issue numbers are server-assigned and atomic: the moment you open an issue, that number is reserved globally. Two PRs that both edit the ### Fixed block of CHANGELOG.md always conflict on merge — two PRs that each use a distinct issue# as their ADR prefix never collide. Same shape, same solution.
Legacy naming is not Legacy status
Files 0001-* through 0012-* are preserved as immutable historical record of the old local-compute numbering. The duplicate 0010-* and the three-way 0011-* are documented residue of that convention — not patterns to imitate. Do not renumber them.
This is the single authoritative statement of the legacy range.
docs/contributor-standards.mdreferences it rather than restating it, so the two cannot drift.
Two other zero-padded files look legacy but are not: 0174-retire-gsd-sdk-package-boundary.md (issue #174) and 0656-research-module-seam.md (issue #656) are mis-padded modern ADRs — modern, issue-numbered files whose four-digit padding is a mistake. They are NOT part of the legacy sequential set above and are not "old local-compute numbering" residue.
This is a statement about filenames only. Many of those ADRs are Accepted and load-bearing today (ADR-0002, ADR-0004, ADR-0008, ADR-0009). An old filename says nothing about whether a decision still holds. The Legacy status in the table below is a separate claim — see the vocabulary.
Because 0010-* and 0011-* each resolve to more than one file, a bare cross-reference like "ADR-0011" is genuinely ambiguous. Link the file (see Lifecycle rules).
Full process
See CONTRIBUTING.md — "Proposing an ADR or PRD" for the end-to-end workflow: opening the issue, waiting for approval, naming the file, and submitting the PR.
PRDs live in docs/prd/, not here. (0011-review-default-reviewers-prd.md predates that directory and is kept in place as frozen historical record.)
Lifecycle rules
These are enforced by scripts/gen-adr-index.cjs, which runs in CI via npm run lint:generated-sync. A violation fails the build with the exact file and fix.
1. Every ADR declares one status from the canonical vocabulary
The first word of the Status field must be one of:
| Status | Means | Obligation |
|---|---|---|
Accepted |
Decided and in force. Cite it. | — |
Proposed |
Decided in principle, not ratified. Do not cite as settled. | If the work has demonstrably shipped, ratify it (below) — do not leave the label lying. |
Superseded |
A specific newer ADR replaced this decision. | Must name the successor as a file link. |
Retired |
What this ADR decided no longer exists at all, and no single ADR replaced it. | Say what was removed and when. |
Legacy |
Frozen historical record, kept for provenance; not a pattern to follow. | Say why it is frozen. |
Prose may follow the token (Superseded by [ADR-0174](0174-retire-gsd-sdk-package-boundary.md) (2026-05-23); originally Accepted (2026-05-09)). Both the bullet form (- **Status:** Accepted) and the table form (| **Status** | Accepted |) are accepted.
2. Cross-references to other ADRs are file links, never bare ids
Write [ADR-0011](0011-skill-surface-budget-module.md), not ADR-0011. Bare ids are ambiguous for 0010/0011, and unlinked references cannot be checked.
If you mean an issue, write #857 — not ADR-857. (An ADR and its owning issue often share a number; that is intentional and not a conflict.)
3. Supersession and subsumption are symmetric
These are different relations. Do not conflate them:
Supersedes/Superseded by— the target is replaced. Its status becomesSuperseded.Subsumes/Subsumed by— the target still holds, but a broader ADR now frames it. Its status is unchanged; it becomes a component of the larger decision.
If A declares either relation toward B, B must record the reciprocal. A one-way pointer is the failure this corpus actually suffered: ADR-1239 declared it subsumed four ADRs, none of which said so, and none of which pointed back — so a reader landing on any of them concluded the superseded frame was the way forward.
Only an Accepted ADR is owed the back-link. A Proposed ADR's claim is prospective: it has not taken effect, so its target is not marked. On ratification, the check begins demanding the back-links.
4. The declared id matches the filename
An H1 of # ADR-0175: … in a file named 218-*.md is a rename that never finished. The id in the title must match the filename's prefix.
Ratifying a stale Proposed
A stale Proposed is not cosmetic: it tells contributors and agents that live architecture is an unbuilt idea. Fix it — but on evidence, not vibes.
The bar. All four must hold before flipping to Accepted:
- The decided mechanism demonstrably exists in the tree — name the files, symbols, and tests.
- The owning issue is closed as completed. A closed issue is not proof:
stateReasonof not planned / duplicate means the decision was dropped (that isLegacyorRetired, notAccepted). - No material part is unshipped. If the ADR defines phases and one is outstanding, or states its own bar for acceptance and that bar is unmet, it stays
Proposed. - No later ADR supersedes it, and no approved issue already plans its graduation as separate work.
The procedure. Set the status to Accepted — ratified <date> (originally Proposed <date>), add a dated ## Ratification section holding the evidence, then run node scripts/gen-adr-index.cjs --write. If the ADR claims to supersede or subsume others, the gate will now demand their back-links — that is the point. Ratify deliberately.
Two traps worth knowing, both hit during the 2026-07-17 audit:
- Shipped code is necessary, not sufficient. Eight ADRs had every named module, symbol, and test present and their epics closed — and still failed the bar: ADR-2264's own headline acceptance criterion is unmet in the tree, ADR-230's decided branch protection does not match the live API, ADR-660's namesake mechanism is performed by hand, and ADR-959 has an approved issue planning its graduation as its own ADR. Verify the decision, not just the code.
- "Supersedes" is often "subsumes". Read what the ADR means before the gate makes you act on what it says. ADR-857 said "Supersedes (generalizes)"; taken literally, ratifying it would have stamped two live seams (ADR-0011, ADR-58) as dead. The parenthetical was the truth; the field name was wrong.
Maintaining the index
The index is generated. Do not hand-edit it. Everything between the ADR-INDEX:START / ADR-INDEX:END markers is derived from the ADR files themselves:
node scripts/gen-adr-index.cjs # print the index
node scripts/gen-adr-index.cjs --write # regenerate it into this file
node scripts/gen-adr-index.cjs --check # CI: fail if stale or invalid
After adding an ADR, or changing any ADR's status or relations, run --write and commit the result. npm run lint:generated-sync runs --check in CI, so a missing or stale row fails the build rather than rotting silently.
This replaces a hand-maintained table that had drifted to 40 of 65 ADRs — the entire capability family and EoS itself were missing from it, which is precisely why the ADRs a reader most needed were the ones they could not find.
Index
Active decisions (55)
These govern the system as it stands. Cite these.
| ADR | Title | Status | Read first |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADR-0001 | Dispatch policy module as single seam for query execution outcomes | Accepted | — |
| ADR-0002 | Command Contract Validation Module | Accepted | — |
| ADR-0003 | Model Catalog Module as single source of truth for agent profiles and runtime tier defaults | Accepted | — |
| ADR-0004 | Planning Workspace Module as single seam for worktree and workstream state | Accepted | — |
| ADR-0006 | Planning Path Projection Module for SDK query handlers | Accepted | — |
| ADR-0008 | Installer Migration Module owns install-time upgrade safety | Accepted | — |
| ADR-0009 | Shell Command Projection Module owns runtime-aware OS command rendering | Accepted | — |
| ADR-0011 | review.default_reviewers config key scopes the no-flag /gsd-review fan-out |
Accepted | — |
| ADR-0011 | Skill Surface Budget Module owns install-time profile staging and runtime surface control | Accepted | ADR-857 |
| ADR-15 | Cross-AI Plan Convergence via Existing Orchestration Commands | Accepted | — |
| ADR-22 | Plan-vs-codebase drift guard: defaults and symbol-resolver seam | Accepted | — |
| ADR-58 | Runtime Install Policy Module owns the typed install-plan projection | Accepted | ADR-1239, ADR-857 |
| ADR-0174 | Retire @opengsd/gsd-sdk package boundary — single-runtime collapse | Accepted | — |
| ADR-218 | Harden release-workflow version validation — reject leading zeros and pre-check npm | Accepted | — |
| ADR-227 | Input validation must check semantic shape, not just type | Accepted | — |
| ADR-415 | Prevent stale-base reintroduction of retired runtime tokens | Accepted | — |
| ADR-452 | Adopt standard ESLint flat-config lint harness | Accepted | — |
| ADR-456 | Test-rigor architecture — deterministic scheduling, antagonistic tier, typed-surface mandate, and delete-bad-tests policy | Accepted | — |
| ADR-457 | Generation model for bin/lib/*.cjs type safety |
Accepted | — |
| ADR-550 | spec-phase probe pattern and prohibition contract | Accepted | — |
| ADR-0656 | Research Module — L2-hybrid seam for cached, curated-first research | Accepted | — |
| ADR-766 | Claude Code Plugin Manifest Module owns the projection of gsd-core surfaces onto the Claude Code plugin contract | Accepted | — |
| ADR-857 | Capability system — five-step loop as core, features as plug-ins behind Loop Extension Points | Accepted | — |
| ADR-894 | Capability declaration format + registry generation | Accepted | ADR-1239 |
| ADR-959 | Capability Command Contribution | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1016 | Runtime Capability Descriptor | Accepted | ADR-1239 |
| ADR-1235 | Migrate agent conversion to the descriptor-driven install path | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1239 | GSD as an Embeddable Orchestration Engine | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1244 | Capability Ecosystem: third-party authoring, versioned manifests, and URL import/upgrade/remove | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1372 | Canonical markdown-structure parsing — the markdown-sectionizer seam |
Accepted | — |
| ADR-1411 | Resolution must report provenance, not fall open silently | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1508 | Runtime Artifact Conversion Module owns per-runtime content rewriting | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1517 | Reviewer instances — bounded config surface for same-adapter multi-model review | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1577 | Untrusted-input boundary + opt-in injection blocking | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1593 | Skill mapping & converter methodology across runtimes | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1610 | workflow & agent size-budget ratchet (per-file byte baseline + tier hard caps) | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1703 | Cross-platform portability enforcement as AST ESLint rules | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1769 | STATE.md Transition Module — intent-based transitions over scattered RMW callbacks | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1787 | /gsd:next smart-entry front door delegates advancement to /gsd:progress --next |
Accepted | — |
| ADR-1817 | STATE.md rebuild — derivability contract (capstone transition) | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1820 | Spec-Optional Predicate Rail — the Spec-Section Detection Module, the fallback toggle, and the SPEC↔probe precedence contract | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1866 | agent_skills dual injection — orchestrator-side + agent-side self-load | Accepted | — |
| ADR-1990 | Existing Code Onboarding Module owns deterministic repo-state detection and onboarding route selection | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2008 | Generic gate-predicate evaluator (command-exit-zero) |
Accepted | — |
| ADR-2121 | Phase-Identifier Parsing Consolidation | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2143 | Markdown Table Model, Bounded Mutation, and Fail-Loud Consolidation (#1372 part 2) | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2164 | Statusline draws its data boundary at local, read-only sources | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2207 | STATE.md Status lifecycle — phase-completion writes an intermediate state; milestone-close owns termination |
Accepted | — |
| ADR-2346 | Command Dispatch Completion | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2619 | Observability and shareable diagnostics — wire the dispatch seam, add the outbound trust boundary | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2629 | Phase effort is estimated against a calibrated smart-zone budget, not a static heuristic | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2719 | Emitted-artifact attribution — replace the committed parity fixtures with a computed conservation law | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2782 | Reviewer Lane — the cross-AI reviewer handoff becomes a declared capability surface | Accepted | — |
| ADR-2966 | Test the five-step loop as a continuous walk, not isolated points | Accepted | — |
| ADR-3660 | Runtime Artifact Layout Module owns per-runtime artifact placement | Accepted | ADR-1239 |
Proposed (8)
Decided in principle, not yet ratified. Do not cite as settled architecture.
| ADR | Title | Status | Read first |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADR-230 | Introduce next as a long-lived integration branch |
Proposed | — |
| ADR-443 | Unified cross-provider effort controls and fast-mode-aware routing | Proposed | — |
| ADR-612 | Bracket Phase-ID Convention | Proposed | — |
| ADR-660 | Release from the head of next; immutable release tags; @next dist-tag as the RC surface |
Proposed | — |
| ADR-1143 | Claude orchestration capability — Workflow tool (ultracode) as a runtime-gated loop execution backend | Proposed | — |
| ADR-1213 | Capability write side — the Capability State Writer | Proposed | — |
| ADR-1606 | prohibition-enforcement verify-time seam | Proposed | — |
| ADR-1671 | Dynamic context management platform | Proposed | — |
Superseded, Retired, and Legacy (8)
Historical record. Do not follow these — each names what replaced it, or why it was retired.
| ADR | Title | Status | Replaced by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADR-0005 | SDK Architecture seam map for query/runtime surfaces | Superseded | ADR-0174 |
| ADR-0007 | SDK Package Seam Module owns SDK-to-get-shit-done-redux compatibility | Superseded | ADR-0174 |
| ADR-0010 | File Operation Engine Module owns safe runtime/config file mutations | Superseded | ADR-0009 |
| ADR-0010 | Skill Surface Budget Module owns install-time skill listing curation | Superseded | ADR-0011 |
| ADR-0011 | PRD — review.default_reviewers config key for /gsd-review reviewer selection |
Legacy | — |
| ADR-0012 | CommandRoutingHub as single dispatch seam for CJS command families | Superseded | ADR-0174 |
| ADR-2264 | Redesign golden-install-parity — single-source manifest builder + split invariant | Superseded | ADR-2719 |
| ADR-3524 | CJS↔SDK hard seam — one source of truth per Shared Module | Superseded | ADR-0174 |
71 ADRs. Generated by scripts/gen-adr-index.cjs — run --write after adding or restatusing an ADR.
Seam map
Orientation for the module-ownership ADRs. This section is prose and hand-maintained; the index above is the authority on status.
How GSD meets a host — start at ADR-1239 (EoS). It is the current frame and subsumes the descriptor/projection ADRs (ADR-1016, ADR-58, ADR-3660, ADR-894) as adapters beneath it.
The SDK seam map is gone. ADR-0005 was once the entry point for SDK module ownership; it is superseded by ADR-0174, which retired the @opengsd/gsd-sdk package boundary entirely. There is no sdk/ tree. Read ADR-0174 for the single-runtime collapse; the seam-Module vocabulary survives under one src/.
ADR-0006 documents how query handlers project planning paths (cwd → effectiveRoot → .planning/<project>/...). Cross-reference the Planning Workspace Module (ADR-0004) for workstream pointer policy.
ADR-0008 documents the Installer Migration Module for safe install-time moves, removals, config rewrites, and user-data preservation.
ADR-0009 documents the Shell Command Projection Module seam for runtime-aware projection of installer-owned command text and projection IR. Its Phases 3–4 absorbed the File Operation Engine Module (ADR-0010).
ADR-0011 documents the Skill Surface Budget Module for install-time skill/agent profile staging (--profile=<name>, .gsd-profile marker, requires: closure) and the Phase 2 runtime /gsd:surface command.
ADR-1411 establishes the Resolution Provenance principle: context resolution (config loading, project-root anchoring, workstream resolution) must report its provenance rather than fall open silently to defaults. It is the resolution-side analog of ADR-227 (input-validation shape).