* feat(#4401): register workflow.compact_content as a validated config key - Add compact_content: false to the nested workflow object in gsd-core/bin/shared/config-defaults.manifest.json - Add 'workflow.compact_content': false to SCHEMA_DEFAULTS in src/config.cts so an absent key resolves to false via config-get --raw - validKeys entry in config-schema.manifest.json already present Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(#4401): behavioral and boundary tests for workflow.compact_content - 19 behavioral tests covering config-set/config-get round trip, invalid-shape rejection (banana, 42, empty string), the corrected null-unset semantics (#2046), absent-key resolution against config-defaults.manifest.json, config-new-project wiring, and doc-row shape assertions - Drops the install-tree fixture-parity block (and its docstring item) that asserted gsd-core/references/compact-content-gate.md and gsd-core/workflows/compact/map-codebase.md fixture entries — those paths belong to #4402 and do not exist on this filtered branch Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(#4401): document workflow.compact_content in both config references - One 4-cell row in docs/CONFIGURATION.md (workflow.* run) - One 5-cell row under Workflow Fields in gsd-core/references/planning-config.md - Both cross-reference ADR-4139 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(#4401): add changeset - Added-type fragment, pr: 4401 (issue number; backfill to the real PR number is a required follow-up once the PR is opened, per D-08 and CHANGESET-PR- FIELD-DRIFT) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(#4401): backfill changeset pr field to #4441 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(#4401): derive workflow.compact_content default from CONFIG_DEFAULTS SCHEMA_DEFAULTS['workflow.compact_content'] hardcoded the literal false instead of deriving it from CONFIG_DEFAULTS the way 3 of its 8 sibling entries do (smart_zone_tokens, pr_strict, inline_plan_threshold), leaving a single-source-of-truth drift risk: a future manifest-only edit to the default could silently diverge from this literal, only caught later by the D-03 test if it ever happened to manifest. Adds compact_content to CONFIG_DEFAULTS in src/config-loader.cts and derives SCHEMA_DEFAULTS from it in src/config.cts, matching the majority sibling pattern. Found during maintainer review (review-open-prs) of this PR. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(#4401): map compact_content in config-field-docs NAMESPACE_MAP The previous commit added compact_content to CONFIG_DEFAULTS in src/config-loader.cts but missed the matching entry in tests/config-field-docs.test.cjs's NAMESPACE_MAP, which maps flat CONFIG_DEFAULTS keys to their namespaced doc form before checking gsd-core/references/planning-config.md for a match. Without it, the test looked for a bare `compact_content` doc reference instead of the actual `workflow.compact_content` row, and failed: "CONFIG_DEFAULTS keys missing from planning-config.md: compact_content". Found by actually running gsd-test against the branch rather than trusting the plausible-looking fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(#4401): register compact-content-4139 test in the docs-guard lane tests/compact-content-4139.test.cjs's D-06 tests read docs/CONFIGURATION.md directly (fs.readFileSync) to assert the workflow.compact_content doc row's shape, which makes it a doc-reading test file under the #3753 docs-guard lane. It was never added to scripts/docs-guard-registry.cjs's DOCS_GUARD_TESTS map and carries no docs-guard-exempt marker, so tests/ci-docs-guard-registry.test.cjs's registration lint correctly failed: "compact-content-4139.test.cjs reads a docs/ path but is not registered in the docs-guard lane and carries no docs-guard-exempt marker". Registers it with ['docs/CONFIGURATION.md'] (the only real docs/-prefixed path it reads; gsd-core/references/planning-config.md is outside this registry's docs/ scope, matching the sibling config-field-docs.test.cjs entry's existing convention). Found by actually running gsd-test against the branch — this gap predates the maintainer's config-loader.cts fix and was already present in the original PR. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com> Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
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
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.