* test(#3576): gate shipped reference citations on the canonical resolvable form Failing-first gate for #3576: a backticked bare references/<name>.md cite resolves from no install location (agents, workflows, and references all install where a bare relative references/ path is dead). The gate walks the runtime-loaded trees the issue prescribes, strips @~/ include tokens PER-TOKEN (a line-skip guard would miss a bare cite sharing a line with an include — the issue-named trap), pins the genuinely relative ../ href and canonical forms as non-offenders, and checks canonical cite targets exist. 43 offenders today across 19 files. * fix(#3576): repair all 43 dead references/ cites to the canonical resolvable form Every backticked bare references/<name>.md cite across the 19 shipped files rewritten to gsd-core/references/<name>.md — the form every required_reading block and @~/ include already uses, and the only form that resolves from any install location. All 20 cited targets verified to exist; the one genuinely relative href (plan-phase.md's ../references/mvp-concepts.md) is untouched (the repair is backtick-anchored). Growth acks: new fragment for the three first-time paths, #3206-pattern appends to the five fragments already naming the other grown files (two ack sources may never name the same path). execute-phase.md lands at 93,391/93,400 and gsd-executor.md at 49,150/49,152 — exactly the issue's projections; every repair fits. * fix(#3576): drop stale default.md growth ack (nested modes file is hash-attributed, not growth-ratcheted) Review finding: the emitted-attribution ratchet covers only top-level workflows/ + agents/ files; discuss-phase/modes/default.md's delta is source-attributed, so acknowledging its growth is a stale entry the differential lane fails on. * chore(#3576): add changeset fragment * chore(#3576): backfill changeset pr number --------- 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 |
Star History
License
MIT License. See LICENSE for details.
Claude Code is powerful. GSD Core makes it reliable.