get-shit-done (GSD)

A development system for Claude Code that unifies meta-prompting + context engineering + spec-driven patterns into one framework — building apps by structuring the AI’s prompts and context rather than coding manually. Another spec-driven-development instance, on the agentic-coding-harness side.

What it does

• Meta-prompting — structured prompts that shape how the agent works.
• Context engineering — tools to optimize what information Claude is given (the same “context as managed artifact” bet as conductor).
• Spec-driven patterns — disciplined phases before implementation.
• Active (78 releases, v1.42.3); JS/TS. The repo notes it has relocated to an “Open GSD” initiative (GSD Core) — moving toward a community-maintained platform.

Why it belongs here

A Claude-Code-specific harness/methodology pairing context engineering with spec-driven-development — reinforcing that, across tools, the leverage is in structuring the agent’s inputs and process, not raw model calls. Sits beside spec-kit (tool-agnostic SDD) and conductor (context-driven dev) as variations on the same authoring-time discipline. (Caveat: README/marketing; “relocated” status noted.)

Related

spec-driven-development · spec-kit · conductor · agentic-coding-harness

Re-verified 2026-08-04 — the repository is archived

Archived 2026-06-26 and read-only. Development moved to GSD Core (github.com/open-gsd/gsd-core). The archived repo stands at 64.8k★ / 5.5k forks, MIT.

So this page documents a project that has been renamed and rehomed, and the archive happened within weeks of the ingest — the staleness queue caught a dead artifact, which is the case the freshness convention exists for. The successor is not yet held: this spoke has no source on GSD Core, and whether it is the same system under a new org or a rewrite is unknown here.