Tom Boucher dbc8b4077a docs(#3467): adr-3408 state.md write-path behavior contract (#3474)
* docs(#3467): adr-3408 state.md write-path behavior contract

* docs(#3467): correct write-seam caller list and adr heading depth

Review findings from the Standards and Spec axes, fixed in place:

- ADR behavior contract demoted from H2 to `### 8` with `#### 8.x`
  subsections, matching ADR-3180's `### 7` / `#### 7.1` precedent the
  front matter claims to follow.
- CONTEXT.md placed the STATE.md factory-reset primitive at
  verify.cts:1925. It moved to health-diagnostic.cts:337 when
  cmdValidateHealth migrated onto the rule table (#3309); verify.cts
  now has no writeStateMd call. The design intent was correct — only
  the address was stale.
- A repo-wide scan found three direct writeStateMd callers, not two:
  cmdStateSync, cmdMilestoneComplete, and the REGENERATE_STATE remedy.
  The last is documented as a sanctioned permanent exception — it is
  a factory reset, so preservation would restore the values it was
  invoked to discard.
- phase.cts comment citation corrected to :2953-2957.
- Amendment 4 attribution corrected: the recorded owner-file exemption
  failure is roadmap-parser.cts; the state.cts transfer is this ADR's
  own extrapolation.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-14 11:03:48 -04:00

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.

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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:

  1. Discuss — capture implementation decisions before anything is planned
  2. Plan — research, decompose, and verify the plan fits a fresh context window
  3. Execute — run plans in parallel waves; each executor starts with a clean 200k-token context
  4. Verify — walk through what was built; diagnose and fix before declaring done
  5. 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

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License

MIT License. See LICENSE for details.


Claude Code is powerful. GSD Core makes it reliable.

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