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* docs: finish trust-bug fixes in user guide and commands

Correct load-bearing defects in the v1.36.0 docs corpus so readers stop
acting on wrong defaults and stale exhaustiveness claims.

- README.md: drop "Complete feature"/"Every command"/"All 18 agents"
  exhaustiveness claims; replace version-pinned "What's new in v1.32"
  bullet with a CHANGELOG pointer.
- CONFIGURATION.md: fix `claude_md_path` default (null/none -> `./CLAUDE.md`)
  in both Full Schema and core settings table; correct `workflow.tdd_mode`
  provenance from "Added in v1.37" to "Added in v1.36".
- USER-GUIDE.md: fix `workflow.discuss_mode` default (`standard` ->
  `discuss`) in the workflow-toggles table AND in the abbreviated Full
  Schema JSON block above it; align the Options cell with the shipped
  enum.
- COMMANDS.md: drop "Complete command syntax" subtitle overclaim to
  match the README posture.
- AGENTS.md: weaken "All 21 specialized agents" header to reflect that
  the `agents/` filesystem is authoritative (shipped roster is 31).

Part 1 of a stacked docs refresh series (PR 1/4).

* docs: refresh shipped surface coverage for v1.36

Close the v1.36.0 shipped-surface gaps in the docs corpus.

- COMMANDS.md: add /gsd-graphify section (build/query/status/diff) and
  its config gate; expand /gsd-quick with --validate flag and list/
  status/resume subcommands; expand /gsd-thread with list --open, list
  --resolved, close <slug>, status <slug>.
- CLI-TOOLS.md: replace the hardcoded "15 domain modules" count with a
  pointer to the Module Architecture table; add a graphify verb-family
  section (build/query/status/diff/snapshot); add Graphify and Learnings
  rows to the Module Architecture table.
- FEATURES.md: add TOC entries for #116 TDD Pipeline Mode and #117
  Knowledge Graph Integration; add the #117 body with REQ-GRAPH-01..05.
- CONFIGURATION.md: move security_enforcement / security_asvs_level /
  security_block_on from root into `workflow.*` in Full Schema to match
  templates/config.json and the gsd-sdk runtime reads; update Security
  Settings table to use the workflow.* prefix; add planning.sub_repos
  to Full Schema and description table; add a Graphify Settings section
  documenting graphify.enabled and graphify.build_timeout.

Note: VALID_CONFIG_KEYS in bin/lib/config.cjs does not yet include
workflow.security_* or planning.sub_repos, so config-set currently
rejects them. That is a pre-existing validator gap that this PR does
not attempt to fix; the docs now correctly describe where these keys
live per the shipped template and runtime reads.

Part 2 of a stacked docs refresh series (PR 2/5), based on PR 1.

* docs: make inventory authoritative and reconcile architecture

Upgrade docs/INVENTORY.md from "complete for agents, selective for others"
to authoritative across all six shipped-surface families, and reconcile
docs/ARCHITECTURE.md against the new inventory so the PR that introduces
INVENTORY does not also introduce an INVENTORY/ARCHITECTURE contradiction.

- docs/AGENTS.md: weaken "21 specialized agents" header to 21 primary +
  10 advanced (31 shipped); add new "Advanced and Specialized Agents"
  section with concise role cards for the 10 previously-omitted shipped
  agents (pattern-mapper, debug-session-manager, code-reviewer,
  code-fixer, ai-researcher, domain-researcher, eval-planner,
  eval-auditor, framework-selector, intel-updater); footnote the Agent
  Tool Permissions Summary as primary-agents-only so it no longer
  misleads.

- docs/INVENTORY.md (rewritten to be authoritative):
  * Full 31-agent roster with one-line role + spawner + primary-doc
    status per agent (unchanged from prior partial work).
  * Commands: full 75-row enumeration grouped by Core Workflow, Phase &
    Milestone Management, Session & Navigation, Codebase Intelligence,
    Review/Debug/Recovery, and Docs/Profile/Utilities — each row
    carries a one-line role derived from the command's frontmatter and
    a link to the source file.
  * Workflows: full 72-row enumeration covering every
    get-shit-done/workflows/*.md, with a one-line role per workflow and
    a column naming the user-facing command (or internal orchestrator)
    that invokes it.
  * References: full 41-row enumeration grouped by Core, Workflow,
    Thinking-Model clusters, and the Modular Planner decomposition,
    matching the groupings docs/ARCHITECTURE.md already uses; notes
    the few-shot-examples subdirectory separately.
  * CLI Modules and Hooks: unchanged — already full rosters.
  * Maintenance section rewritten to describe the drift-guard test
    suite that will land in PR4 (inventory-counts, commands-doc-parity,
    agents-doc-parity, cli-modules-doc-parity, hooks-doc-parity).

- docs/ARCHITECTURE.md reconciled against INVENTORY:
  * References block: drop the stale "(35 total)" count; point at
    INVENTORY.md#references-41-shipped for the authoritative count.
  * CLI Tools block: drop the stale "19 domain modules" count; point
    at INVENTORY.md#cli-modules-24-shipped for the authoritative roster.
  * Agent Spawn Categories: relabel as "Primary Agent Spawn Categories"
    and add a footer naming the 10 advanced agents and pointing at
    INVENTORY.md#agents-31-shipped for the full 31-agent roster.

- docs/CONFIGURATION.md: preserve the six model-profile rows added in
  the prior partial work, and tighten the fallback note so it names the
  13 shipped agents without an explicit profile row, documents
  model_overrides as the escape hatch, and points at INVENTORY.md for
  the authoritative 31-agent roster.

Part 3 of a stacked docs refresh series (PR 3/4). Remaining consistency
work (USER-GUIDE config-section delete-and-link, FEATURES.md TOC
reorder, ARCHITECTURE.md Hook-table expansion + installation-layout
collapse, CLI-TOOLS.md module-row additions, workflow-discuss-mode
invocation normalization, and the five doc-parity tests) lands in PR4.

* test(docs): add consistency guards and remove duplicate refs

Consolidates USER-GUIDE.md's command/config duplicates into pointers to
COMMANDS.md and CONFIGURATION.md (kills a ghost `resolve_model_ids` key
and a stale `discuss_mode: standard` default); reorders FEATURES.md TOC
chronologically so v1.32 precedes v1.34/1.35/1.36; expands
ARCHITECTURE.md's Hook table to the 11 shipped hooks
(gsd-read-injection-scanner, gsd-check-update-worker) and collapses
the installation-layout hook enumeration to the *.js/*.sh pattern form;
adds audit/gsd2-import/intel rows and state signal-*, audit-open,
from-gsd2 verbs to CLI-TOOLS.md; normalizes workflow-discuss-mode.md
invocations to `node gsd-tools.cjs config-set`.

Adds five drift guards anchored on docs/INVENTORY.md as the
authoritative roster: inventory-counts (all six families),
commands/agents/cli-modules/hooks parity checks that every shipped
surface has a row somewhere.

* fix(convergence): thread --ws to review agent; add stall and max-cycles behavioral tests

- Thread GSD_WS through to review agent spawn in plan-review-convergence
  workflow (step 5a) so --ws scoping is symmetric with planning step
- Add behavioral stall detection test: asserts workflow compares
  HIGH_COUNT >= prev_high_count and emits a stall warning
- Add behavioral --max-cycles 1 test: asserts workflow reaches escalation
  gate when cycle >= MAX_CYCLES with HIGH > 0 after a single cycle
- Include original PR files (commands, workflow, tests) as the branch
  predated the PR commits

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(docs,config): PR #2390 review — security_* config keys and REQ-GRAPH-02 scope

Addresses trek-e's review items that don't require rebase:

- config.cjs: add workflow.security_enforcement, workflow.security_asvs_level,
  workflow.security_block_on to VALID_CONFIG_KEYS so gsd-sdk config-set accepts
  them (closed the gap where docs/CONFIGURATION.md listed keys the validator
  rejected).
- core.cjs: add matching CONFIG_DEFAULTS entries (true / 1 / 'high') so the
  canonical defaults table matches the documented values.
- config.cjs: wire the three keys into the new-project workflow defaults so
  fresh configs inherit them.
- planning-config.md: document the three keys in the Workflow Fields table,
  keeping the CONFIG_DEFAULTS ↔ doc parity test happy.
- config-field-docs.test.cjs: extend NAMESPACE_MAP so the flat keys in
  CONFIG_DEFAULTS resolve to their workflow.* doc rows.
- FEATURES.md REQ-GRAPH-02: split the slash-command surface (build|query|
  status|diff) from the CLI surface which additionally exposes `snapshot`
  (invoked automatically at the tail of `graphify build`). The prior text
  overstated the slash-command surface.

* docs(inventory): refresh rosters and counts for post-rebase drift

origin/main accumulated surfaces since this PR was authored:

- Agents: 31 → 33 (+ gsd-doc-classifier, gsd-doc-synthesizer)
- Commands: 76 → 82 (+ ingest-docs, ultraplan-phase, spike, spike-wrap-up,
  sketch, sketch-wrap-up)
- Workflows: 73 → 79 (same 6 names)
- References: 41 → 49 (+ debugger-philosophy, doc-conflict-engine,
  mandatory-initial-read, project-skills-discovery, sketch-interactivity,
  sketch-theme-system, sketch-tooling, sketch-variant-patterns)

Adds rows in the existing sub-groupings, introduces a Sketch References
subsection, and bumps all four headline counts. Roles are pulled from
source frontmatter / purpose blocks for each file. All 5 parity tests
(inventory-counts, agents-doc-parity, commands-doc-parity,
cli-modules-doc-parity, hooks-doc-parity) pass against this state —
156 assertions, 0 failures.

Also updates the 'Coverage note' advanced-agent count 10 → 12 and the
few-shot-examples footnote "41 top-level references" → "49" to keep the
file internally consistent.

* docs(agents): add advanced stubs for gsd-doc-classifier and gsd-doc-synthesizer

Both agents ship on main (spawned by /gsd-ingest-docs) but had no
coverage in docs/AGENTS.md. Adds the "advanced stub" entries (Role,
property table, Key behaviors) following the template used by the other
10 advanced/specialized agents in the same section.

Also updates the Agent Tool Permissions Summary scope note from
"10 advanced/specialized agents" to 12 to reflect the two new stubs.

* docs(commands): add entries for ingest-docs, ultraplan-phase, plan-review-convergence

These three commands ship on main (plan-review-convergence via trek-e's
4b452d29 commit on this branch) but had no user-facing section in
docs/COMMANDS.md — they lived only in INVENTORY.md. The commands-doc-parity
test already passes via INVENTORY, but the user-facing doc was missing
canonical explanations, argument tables, and examples.

- /gsd-plan-review-convergence → Core Workflow (after /gsd-plan-phase)
- /gsd-ultraplan-phase → Core Workflow (after plan-review-convergence)
- /gsd-ingest-docs → Brownfield (after /gsd-import, since both consume
  the references/doc-conflict-engine.md contract)

Content pulled from each command's frontmatter and workflow purpose block.

* test: remove redundant ARCHITECTURE.md count tests

tests/architecture-counts.test.cjs and tests/command-count-sync.test.cjs
were added when docs/ARCHITECTURE.md carried hardcoded counts for commands/
workflows/agents. With the PR #2390 cleanup, ARCHITECTURE.md no longer
owns those numbers — docs/INVENTORY.md does, enforced by
tests/inventory-counts.test.cjs (scans the same filesystem directories
with the same readdirSync filter).

Keeping these ARCHITECTURE-specific tests would re-introduce the hardcoded
counts they guard, defeating trek-e's review point. The single-source-of-
truth parity tests already catch the same drift scenarios.

Related: #2257 (the regression this replaced).

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Co-authored-by: Tom Boucher <trekkie@nomorestars.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-20 09:31:34 -04:00

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Discuss Mode: Assumptions vs Interview

GSD's discuss-phase has two modes for gathering implementation context before planning.

Modes

discuss (default)

The original interview-style flow. Claude identifies gray areas in the phase, presents them for selection, then asks ~4 questions per area. Good for:

  • Early phases where the codebase is new
  • Phases where the user has strong opinions they want to express proactively
  • Users who prefer guided, conversational context gathering

assumptions

A codebase-first flow. Claude deeply analyzes the codebase via a subagent (reading 5-15 relevant files), forms assumptions with evidence, and presents them for confirmation or correction. Good for:

  • Established codebases with clear patterns
  • Users who find the interview questions obvious
  • Faster context gathering (~2-4 interactions vs ~15-20)

Configuration

# Enable assumptions mode
node gsd-tools.cjs config-set workflow.discuss_mode assumptions

# Switch back to interview mode
node gsd-tools.cjs config-set workflow.discuss_mode discuss

The setting is per-project (stored in .planning/config.json).

How Assumptions Mode Works

  1. Init — Same as discuss mode (load prior context, scout codebase, check todos)
  2. Deep analysis — Explore subagent reads 5-15 codebase files related to the phase
  3. Surface assumptions — Each assumption includes:
    • What Claude would do and why (citing file paths)
    • What goes wrong if the assumption is incorrect
    • Confidence level (Confident / Likely / Unclear)
  4. Confirm or correct — User reviews assumptions, selects any that need changing
  5. Write CONTEXT.md — Identical output format to discuss mode

Flag Compatibility

Flag discuss mode assumptions mode
--auto Auto-selects recommended answers Skips confirm gate, auto-resolves Unclear items
--batch Groups questions in batches N/A (corrections already batched)
--text Plain-text questions (remote sessions) Plain-text questions (remote sessions)
--analyze Shows trade-off tables per question N/A (assumptions include evidence)

Output

Both modes produce identical CONTEXT.md with the same 6 sections:

  • <domain> — Phase boundary
  • <decisions> — Locked implementation decisions
  • <canonical_refs> — Specs/docs downstream agents must read
  • <code_context> — Reusable assets, patterns, integration points
  • <specifics> — User references and preferences
  • <deferred> — Ideas noted for future phases

Downstream agents (researcher, planner, checker) consume this identically regardless of mode.