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    Git. Ship. Done - Core

    web
    claude-code
    context-engineering
    meta-prompting
    spec-driven-development
    JavaScript
    MIT
    11.4K stars
    816 forks
    37 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 9, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    Ranks #22 among Web repositories ranked this week; #125 of 163 repositories with measured growth this week (top 77%).

    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 3 days ago, with 177 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a spec-driven development framework that manages AI coding agents through a disciplined phase loop to maintain high-quality code generation.
    • Prevents context rot by running heavy research and execution in fresh subagents, keeping the main session lean and output quality consistent.
    • Use for orchestrating AI coding workflows that require iterative planning, execution, verification, and shipping phases to ensure reliable code delivery.
    • Use for onboarding existing codebases to AI-driven development by structuring work into repeatable phases with shared memory artifacts.
    • Use for building new projects with AI agents while maintaining context integrity and automated verification to reduce manual debugging.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

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    From the README

    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.

    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.

    Excerpt from the open-gsd/gsd-core README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Sep 10: +12Sep 24: +25Sep 25: +17

    +3,158 stars over 87 days across 13 snapshot days; best day +25 on Sep 24.

    Forks

    816+248

    Open issues

    356+229

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