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Tom Boucher e3bc53f835 enhancement(#558): add liveness hints to all GSD spawn announcements (#566)
* enhancement(#558): add liveness hints to all GSD spawn announcements

Append '(runs in a subagent — no output until it returns, ~1–5 min; expected,
not a freeze)' inline to every ◆ Spawning… banner and subagent dispatch
instruction across 26 workflows. Silent subagents look identical to frozen
sessions — this note sets the expectation so users wait instead of killing
healthy in-progress work.

Changes:
- references/ui-brand.md: document liveness convention under Spawning Indicators
- 10 banner workflows: append liveness note to ◆ Spawning… lines in-place
- 18 subagent-only workflows: add print instruction with liveness phrase
- tests/spawn-liveness-banner.test.cjs: new test; fails if any workflow with
  subagent_type omits 'runs in a subagent'
- docs/USER-GUIDE.md: troubleshooting entry for frozen-looking spawns
- .changeset/558-spawn-liveness-banner.md: changeset fragment

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#558): add missing pr field to changeset fragment

The changeset lint requires pr: <NNN> in frontmatter; the fragment was
written without it, causing parse.cjs to reject it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#558): address codex review — missed spawns and tighten test

- plan-phase.md: add liveness note to chunked outline planner and
  per-plan chunked planner banners (two missed ◆ Spawning… lines)
- quick.md: add liveness note to research banner and add missing
  display line before planner spawn in Step 5
- plan-review-convergence.md: add liveness note to initial planning
  and review-agent spawn Display lines
- docs-update.md: add Print instructions with liveness note before
  gsd-doc-verifier spawns in Phase 1 and Phase 2
- autonomous.md: add Print instruction with liveness note before
  background plan-phase agent dispatch in step 3b
- tests/spawn-liveness-banner.test.cjs: replace single file-level
  check with two assertions:
  (1) every ◆ Spawning… banner line carries the phrase on that line
  (2) every file with subagent_type contains the phrase somewhere
  The tighter test would have caught all five missed spawns.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#558): tighten spawn-liveness test regex to catch spawn-word-anywhere variants

Previous SPAWN_BANNER_RE only matched ◆ immediately followed by Spawning|spawning.
Replace with /◆[^\n]*\bspawning?\b/i which matches the spawn word anywhere on the
◆ line — catching "◆ Chunked mode: spawning outline planner..." and similar.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#558): rename changeset to PR number 566 and correct pr field

Changeset was filed as 558-spawn-liveness-banner.md (issue#) but the
convention is the PR number. Renamed to 566-spawn-liveness-banner.md
and updated pr: 558 → pr: 566 so release notes link to the right PR.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-31 23:33:49 -04:00
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GSD Core Documentation

Comprehensive documentation for GSD Core (Git. Ship. Done.) — a meta-prompting, context engineering, and spec-driven development system for AI coding agents.

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Documentation Index

Document Audience Description
Architecture Contributors, advanced users System architecture, agent model, data flow, and internal design
Installer Migrations Contributors Architecture for safe install-time migrations, cleanup, preservation, dry-run planning, and rollback
Feature Reference All users Feature narratives and requirements for released features
Command Reference All users Stable commands with syntax, flags, options, and examples
Configuration Reference All users Full config schema, workflow toggles, model profiles, git branching
Custom PR Body Sections All users How to append project-specific PRD sections to /gsd-ship PR bodies
CLI Tools Reference Contributors, agent authors gsd-tools.cjs programmatic API for workflows and agents
JSON Error Mode Contributors, agent authors Machine-readable gsd-tools --json-errors failure envelopes
Agent Reference Contributors, advanced users Role cards for primary agents — roles, tools, spawn patterns (the agents/ filesystem is authoritative)
User Guide All users Workflow walkthroughs, troubleshooting, and recovery
Issue-Driven Orchestration All users Recipe for driving GSD from a tracker issue (GitHub / Linear / Jira) using existing primitives — no new commands or daemon
Context Monitor All users Context window monitoring hook architecture
Discuss Mode All users Assumptions vs interview mode for discuss-phase
Canary Stream Maintainers Archived stream notes; current public npm tags are latest and next