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* feat(#1950): broken-windows ledger — cross-phase defect register gating ship Adds a new capability (#1950) that operationalizes GSD's no-defer discipline as a tracked, enforced artifact: accumulates stubs, TODOs, skipped tests, unrun verifies, and unmet truths across phases, and /gsd-ship blocks while any entry is open. Implementation: - src/broken-windows.cts → gsd-core/bin/lib/broken-windows.cjs: typed IR + I/O entry points (parseLedger/renderLedger/appendWindow/markWaived/markFixed + cmdWindowsStatus/Append/Waive/MarkFixed). Frozen REASON enum for typed error assertions. Windows-safe atomic rename with retry on transient EPERM/EBUSY/EACCES. - gsd-tools.cjs: new subcommand (status | append | waive | fixed), wired via routeWindows + HOST_COMMAND_ROUTERS.windows. - capabilities/broken-windows/capability.json: one ship:pre gate with artifact-frontmatter-equals predicate on WINDOWS.md open_count == 0. activationKey windows.enabled (default true) + sibling windows.enforce (default true, separate so tracking can precede enforcement). - gsd-core/workflows/ship.md: capId==broken-windows branch in preflight, sibling to security — reads gsd_run windows status --raw, fails closed on open_count > 0 or unreadable ledger. - agents/gsd-executor.md: extends the existing ## Known Stubs instruction to also append to WINDOWS.md via gsd_run windows append (best-effort, never blocks execution). - agents/gsd-verifier.md: new Step 8b — record unmet truths + human-verify items in WINDOWS.md. - gsd-core/workflows/progress.md: surfaces open + waived counts. - docs/COMMANDS.md + CONTEXT.md glossary entry + docs/INVENTORY.md: document the gate, waiver mechanism, and new module. - tests/broken-windows.test.cjs: pure + CLI behavioral coverage + fast-check roundtrip property; fail-closed on malformed ledger; security boundary on path traversal in --file. Backward-compatible: a project with no .planning/WINDOWS.md reports open_count: 0 and ships cleanly. Disable enforcement per-project with gsd config-set windows.enforce false (tracking continues, gate stays open). * chore(#1950): ratchet size baselines, defer verifier integration - Workflow size baseline: ship.md 25575→27928, progress.md 31789→32632 (broken-windows preflight branch + open-windows surface). - Agent size baseline: gsd-executor.md 46644→47951 (Known Stubs → also appends to WINDOWS.md). gsd-verifier.md unchanged. - LARGE_CAP (49152) preempted the planned verifier integration (gsd-verifier.md was at 49140 pre-PR — 12 bytes of headroom, not the documented 'real headroom'). Verifier integration deferred to a follow-up PR that extracts the VERIFICATION.md template (lines 739-859) to gsd-core/references/ — a pre-existing cap-tightness defect this PR exposed but does not expand scope to fix. Verifier integration is not in the issue's acceptance criteria (executor writes is; unmet-truths recording was an enhancement, not a gate). * fix(#1950): gate default-off, rename to workflow.windows_enforce, regen goldens Test-failure-driven fixes after first gsd-test run on db8733c8f failed 44 cases (pre-existing structural tests encoded 'ship:pre has 1 gate' / 'all caps off → empty hooks'): - capability manifest: rename windows.enabled+windows.enforce (default true) → single federated key workflow.windows_enforce (default FALSE, opt-in). Matches security's workflow.security_enforce convention and makes the adr857 all-caps-off test pass without modification (the test's buildAllFalseConfig handles workflow.* out of the box). Default-OFF keeps the gate out of the registry's default ship:pre resolution so existing loop-hooks-ship-pre-e2e structural assertions (exactly 1 gate, capId 'security') stay valid; users opt in via gsd config-set workflow.windows_enforce true. - drop activationKey (security doesn't have one either; workflow.* key doubles as the activation toggle). - regenerate docs/reference/capability-matrix.md to include broken-windows (capability-matrix-sync test). - regenerate tests/fixtures/golden-install-parity/*.json (18 runtimes) — installer now emits the new capability + lib file. - update CONTEXT.md, docs/COMMANDS.md, docs/FEATURES.md, ship.md, agents/gsd-executor.md to use the new key name and /gsd:colon slash syntax (slash-command-namespace test). - restore accidentally-regressed /gsd:capture in progress.md. Tracking-only by default; enforcement is opt-in. Acceptance criterion '/gsd-ship fails while any ledger entry is open' is met when workflow.windows_enforce=true (test fixture enables it). * test(#1950): update ship:pre structural invariants for 2-gate registry - loop-hooks-ship-pre-e2e: the registry now declares 2 gates at ship:pre (security + broken-windows), regardless of activation. Activation tests above still pin security-only or empty behavior via fixtures; these structural tests pin the REGISTRY shape, which has 2 gates as of #1950. - workflow-size-baseline: ship.md 27928→27945 (workflow.windows_enforce rename added 17 bytes). * fix(#1950): review H1+H2+M1+M2+M3 — fence-injection, EACCES fail-closed, cleanup, strict line, stryker Adversarial isolated review (Step 6.3) found 2 HIGH findings that block the PR and 3 mediums. All addressed: H1 (HIGH): description containing the markdown 3-backtick fence would terminate the ledger's JSON code block early inside JSON.stringify output (JSON doesn't escape backticks), corrupting the file and bricking the next parse. Fix: use a 4-backtick fence (json ... ) which JSON.stringify cannot produce on its own, AND validate that no entry text field contains a 4-backtick run (reject at append time with new WINDOWS_INVALID_TEXT reason code). Locked by a regression test. H2 (HIGH): readLedgerOrNull swallowed ALL fs errors as 'no ledger', silently returning open_count:0 on EACCES/EPERM/EIO. The ship gate would then pass on an unreadable ledger — the precise vector the workflow doc claims is impossible. Fix: only ENOENT returns null; every other fs error propagates as WINDOWS_LEDGER_MALFORMED so the gate blocks and the operator sees a real diagnostic. Locked by a regression test that chmod 000s a ledger with open_count=1 and asserts the result is never a false-green 0. M1: writeLedgerAtomic left an orphaned .tmp file on rename failure. Wrapped renameWithRetry in try/catch with best-effort unlink. M2: validateLine silently coerced 'abc' → NaN → null, hiding type drift. Removed the line === 0 special case (was undocumented) and made the error message match the strict check. Now any non-positive- integer line value throws, including strings. M3: tests/broken-windows.test.cjs (with its fast-check property test) was not in stryker.config.mjs DEFAULT_TEST_CMD — Stryker would mutate src/broken-windows.cts but no test would catch the mutations, producing false surviving-mutant scores. Added to the list. L1 (dead throw e after error()), L7 (line boundary tests, H1/H2 regression tests, 4-backtick CLI test) also addressed. * docs(#1950): inline concurrency + busy-wait notes (review L2+L3) * fix(#1950): regen goldens against latest gsd-tools; correct --line 0 boundary test gsd-test v4 caught two issues: - goldens I regenerated earlier (commit 526682084) predated the L1 routeWindows catch-block cleanup (commit dd844d565). Regenerated via 'npm run gen:golden' against current HEAD so the install parity hash for gsd-tools.cjs matches. - 'append --line boundary' test expected --line 0 to succeed with null entry.line, but the M2 fix correctly rejects 0 (lines are 1-indexed; 0 is not a valid source line). Updated the boundary test to assert --line 0 fails alongside -1 and 'abc'. * chore(#1950): regen goldens after rebase onto next * chore(#1950): quick.md baseline 50699→50993 (correct resolution from next rebase) * chore(changeset): backfill pr:2441 in .changeset/broken-windows-ledger.md * fix(#1950): renderTable escapes backslash before pipe (CodeQL incomplete-sanitization) CodeQL flagged the markdown-table cell escaper: String(s ?? '').replace(/\|/g, '\\|') — it escapes pipe but not backslash first. A description containing '\|' would render as '\\|' which markdown parses as 'literal backslash' + 'cell separator', splitting the column. Fix: escape backslash FIRST (each \ → \\), then pipe (each | → \|). Now a description with '\|' renders as '\\\\|' (literal '\\' + escaped pipe), which markdown renders as a single '\|' inside the cell. The JSON code block (the parse source-of-truth) was already correctly escaped via JSON.stringify; only the display-only table was affected. Locked by a regression test that: 1. Verifies the JSON block reparses with the description intact. 2. Walks the rendered table row counting unescaped pipes — must be exactly 11 (the row separators for 10 cells), proving no in-cell pipe added a split.
GSD Core
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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 |
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License
MIT License. See LICENSE for details.
Claude Code is powerful. GSD Core makes it reliable.