* feat(#787): elevate Cline — .clinerules/ dir form, PreToolUse hook, AGENTS.md Migrate the installer's Cline output from a single-file .clinerules to the .clinerules/ directory form (.clinerules/gsd.md), which is the prerequisite for Cline's v3.36 hooks (a path cannot be both a file and a directory). Add a .clinerules/hooks/PreToolUse lifecycle hook implementing Cline's JSON stdin -> {cancel,errorMessage,contextModification} protocol; it guards .planning/ artifacts and fails open. On global installs, merge GSD instructions into the cross-tool ~/.agents/AGENTS.md target (marker-delimited, merge-safe). A legacy single-file .clinerules is migrated in place; --uninstall removes the new artifacts and strips the AGENTS.md GSD block. Also fixes the uninstall targetDir for Cline local installs (it pointed at ./.cline instead of the project root) and re-runs writeManifest after the Cline artifacts are written so they are hash-tracked. Self-contained: implemented independently of the #782 Cline skills work. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(#787): address review findings - Scope PreToolUse hook path-walk to PATH_KEY fields only (eliminates false positive when doc body content mentions .planning/) - Use lstatSync + isSymbolicLink() for migration guard so GSD never writes through a user's symlinked .clinerules into an external directory - Add regression tests for both cases Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(#787): set changeset pr: 803 Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <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 15 supported runtimes
- 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