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The flattened install layout broke the third-party capability ecosystem in two
ways. Both are fixed at the host-version / installer boundary.
Gap 1 — host version read as 0.0.0. The running GSD version was resolved via
require('../../../package.json') (loader/source) and require('../../package.json')
(the gsd-tools CLI), which in the installed layout is the versionless CommonJS
marker → the fail-closed fallback reported 0.0.0, so `capability install` rejected
any manifest with a real engines.gsd range as "incompatible with GSD 0.0.0". For
runtimes that get no marker, and for local installs, that walked-up package.json
could even be the USER's own project, reporting a wrong version. Fix:
readHostVersion() (capability-loader.cts, capability-source.cts) and capHostVersion()
(gsd-tools.cjs) now prefer the authoritative gsd-core/VERSION the installer already
writes for EVERY runtime (mirrors resolveVersionFrom(), #1383), falling back to the
runtime-root package.json for the dev/source tree, then fail-closing. This fixes
every runtime and the actual `capability install` CLI path without touching the
marker package.json, so uninstall is unchanged (no data-loss surface).
Gap 2 — scripts/gen-capability-registry.cjs (+ its sibling
gen-loop-host-contract.cjs) were never copied by the installer, so the loader's
never-crash invariant discarded every overlay and fell back to the frozen
first-party registry (installed capabilities silently inert). Now copied,
uninstalled, and manifest-tracked exactly like fix-slash-commands.cjs (#1223).
Regenerates the 16 golden-install-parity fixtures to capture the two newly shipped
generator scripts and the gsd-tools.cjs change.
Regression tests (RED→GREEN): readHostVersion VERSION-first / fallback / fail-closed
resolution; an end-to-end `capability install` against a REAL installed layout
proving the engines gate sees the real host version, not 0.0.0; and a real-install
check that both generators are shipped and manifest-tracked.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
GSD Core
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A light-weight meta-prompting, context engineering, and spec-driven development system for Claude Code, OpenCode, Gemini 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, Gemini 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, Gemini 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 your first project:
/gsd-new-project
New here? Follow Your first project for a guided walkthrough from install to first shipped phase.
Documentation
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.