* test(#947): add regression tests and update stale Hermes assertions - Add bug-947-hermes-gsd-prefix.test.cjs: 12 TDD tests covering fresh install canonical layout, bare-stem migration, manifest key format, and non-Hermes runtime isolation - Update hermes-skills-migration.test.cjs: bare-stem → gsd-prefixed path and name assertions (#947 canonical layout) - Update install-nested-layout.test.cjs: Hermes NEST matrix prefix '' → 'gsd-' - Update install-regressions.test.cjs: Defect #1 now seeds bare-stem dirs (help/, quick/) and asserts gsd-help/ canonical output; use real GSD stems so readGsdCommandNames() migration finds them - Update install-runtime-artifacts.test.cjs: Hermes nested layout and legacy migration assertions align with gsd- prefix - Update install.test.cjs: Hermes install test uses gsd- prefixed paths - Update runtime-artifact-layout.test.cjs: prefix '' → 'gsd-' Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(#947): restore gsd- prefix on Hermes skills for canonical dispatch Hermes skills were installing under bare-stem paths (skills/gsd/<stem>/SKILL.md, name: <stem>) due to prefix: '' set in ADR-3660 / #3664. This broke /gsd-<stem> dispatch and forced users to invoke skills without the gsd- namespace prefix. - src/runtime-artifact-layout.cts: change Hermes skillsKind prefix from '' to 'gsd-'; skills now land at skills/gsd/gsd-<stem>/SKILL.md with name: gsd-<stem> - bin/install.js _runLegacyInstallMigrations: invert the #3664 migration — remove stale bare-stem dirs (using readGsdCommandNames() to distinguish GSD-owned stems from user content), keep gsd-* dirs which are now canonical - bin/install.js _runLegacyUninstallCleanup: also remove bare-stem dirs on uninstall for clean teardown - bin/install.js uninstallRuntimeArtifacts: post-cleanup removes DESCRIPTION.md and empty skills/gsd/ category dir on Hermes - bin/install.js: remove skillListPrefix Hermes exception (now uses shared 'gsd-' path) - docs/adr/3660-runtime-artifact-layout-module.md: document #947 reversal of the bare-stem sub-decision Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: add changeset for #947 fix (#955) Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(#947): remove ALL pre-migration bare-stem Hermes skills on reinstall (adversarial review) Replace readGsdCommandNames()-based bare-stem cleanup (which missed skills not in the commands source tree, e.g. dev-preferences) with _removeHermesBareStemDirs(), called AFTER the install loop when the exact set of installed gsd-<stem>/ dirs is authoritative. For every gsd-<stem>/ written this run, the corresponding bare skills/gsd/<stem>/ is removed. User-owned bare dirs with no gsd-<stem> counterpart are preserved. Add two adversarial-review regression tests that FAIL on old code: - bare skills/gsd/dev-preferences/ removed when gsd-dev-preferences/ installed - user-owned bare dir with no gsd-<stem> counterpart is preserved (no over-deletion) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
GSD Core documentation
Documentation is organised into four quadrants: tutorials help you learn by doing, how-to guides solve specific tasks, reference states authoritative facts, and explanation explores concepts and design decisions.
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Tutorials
- Your first project — install to first shipped phase, one guaranteed path
- Onboarding an existing codebase — bring GSD Core to a brownfield repo
How-to guides
- Install on your runtime — runtime-specific install steps for all 16 supported runtimes
- Install a minimal GSD and add skills later — install only the core skills, then grow the surface with profiles and
/gsd:surface - Discuss a phase — capture implementation decisions before planning begins
- Plan a phase — run research, decompose work, and verify plan quality
- Execute a phase — run plans in parallel waves with fresh-context subagents
- Verify and ship — walk through completed work, diagnose failures, and create the PR
- Run phases autonomously — use autonomous mode for unattended phase execution
- Handle quick and fast tasks — use
/gsd-quickand/gsd-fastfor ad-hoc work outside the phase loop - Configure model profiles — switch between quality, balanced, and budget model tiers
- Set up cross-AI review — configure a second AI to review code produced by the primary agent
- Work in parallel with workstreams — run independent lines of work simultaneously using workstreams
- Isolate work with workspaces — use workspaces to sandbox experimental or risky changes
- Debug a failed execution — diagnose and recover from broken or incomplete phase execution
- Spike and sketch — use
/gsd-spikeand/gsd-sketchfor exploratory work before committing to a plan - Design a UI phase — use the UI phase loop for frontend and visual work
- Drive GSD from a tracker issue — start a phase from a GitHub, Linear, or Jira issue
- Migrate from GSD 2 — upgrade an existing GSD 2 project to GSD Core
- Update GSD — re-run the installer to pick up the latest release
- Clean up get-shit-done-cc — remove leftover old-package artifacts that cause a spurious
⬆ /gsd:updateindicator after migrating to@opengsd/gsd-core - Fix the worktree base-mismatch (exit 42) error — resolve the branch-divergence condition that halts parallel phase execution
- Recover and troubleshoot — fix common problems, rebuild context, and uninstall
Reference
- Commands — every command with flags and examples
- Configuration — full config schema, model profiles, git branching strategies
- CLI tools —
gsd-tools.cjsprogrammatic API for workflows and agents - Features — complete feature index
- Inventory — installed skills and surface map
- STATE.md schema — field-by-field reference for
.planning/STATE.md - CONTEXT.md schema — field-by-field reference for
.planning/phases/<N>/CONTEXT.md - PLAN.md schema — field-by-field reference for
.planning/phases/<N>/PLAN.md - Planning artifacts — all
.planning/files and their roles
Explanation
- Context engineering — how context rot forms and how GSD Core prevents it
- The phase loop — design rationale for the Discuss → Plan → Execute → Verify → Ship cycle
- Multi-agent orchestration — how subagents are spawned, scoped, and coordinated
- Security model — trust boundaries, permissions, and safe automation
- Architecture — system architecture, agent model, and data flow
- Discuss modes — assumptions mode vs interview mode for
/gsd-discuss-phase - Context monitoring — context window monitoring hook architecture
- Issue-driven orchestration — recipe for driving GSD from a tracker issue using existing primitives
Related
- Root README — landing page, quickstart, and documentation overview
- Changelog — release history