Correctness review of the Phase 4 guard found the allowlist over-broad and the scanner/guards evadable. Fixed all findings: - Migrate 9 sites that were wrongly sanctioned: their regex is the PURE canonical token (`\d+[A-Z]?(?:\.\d+)*`, no variant), byte-identical to already-migrated siblings. The old justification argued against swapping to the extractPhaseToken() FUNCTION (behavior-risky) — but the guard only wants the same regex built from the SOURCE string (byte-equal, zero risk). Coverage is now 32 migrated / 5 sanctioned, not the overstated 23 / 14 (audit.cts x3, uat.cts, init.cts x4, roadmap-upgrade.cts). Each conversion proven byte-equal (.source + .flags). - Harden the drift detector: also catch the `[0-9]`-in-place-of-`\d` variant; document the accepted limits (cross-line split, semantic restructuring — covered by the identity guard + review, not a text scan). - Sanction robustness: a `phase-id-owner:` marker now counts only inside a `//` comment (a bare substring in a string no longer suppresses a real flag), and the preceding-line window skips blank lines (an auto-formatter's blank line no longer reactivates the flag). - roadmap-parser.cts:462 comment: corrected — that regex carries no /i flag, so its [A-Za-z] class does real case work (matches state.cts:1409's rationale). - Identity guard: surface require failures instead of silently skipping, and floor coverage at >75% of consumer modules (inspects 156/157). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <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
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.