GSD: Meta-Prompting and Spec-Driven Development System for Claude Code
GSD (Get Shit Done) is an open-source meta-prompting, context engineering, and spec-driven development system by TACHES, trending on Hacker News with 167 points. It provides a structured methodology for working with Claude Code and other AI coding agents.
Behind the scenes, GSD handles context engineering, XML prompt formatting, subagent orchestration, and state management. The user experience is simple: a few commands that give Claude Code everything it needs to do the work and verify it. Installation is available via npx for Claude Code, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Codex, Copilot, and Antigravity.
GSD 2.0 is now a standalone CLI built on the Pi SDK with direct TypeScript access to the agent harness. It can clear context between tasks, inject the right files at dispatch time, manage git branches, track cost and tokens, detect stuck loops, recover from crashes, and auto-advance through milestones without human intervention.
This represents a growing pattern in the agentic ecosystem: frameworks that sit between the human and the coding agent, providing structure, memory, and guardrails that the raw agent lacks.
GitHub: https://github.com/gsd-build/get-shit-done
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Behind the scenes, GSD handles context engineering, XML prompt formatting, subagent orchestration, and state management. The user experience is simple: a few commands that give Claude Code everything it needs to do the work and verify it. Installation is available via npx for Claude Code, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Codex, Copilot, and Antigravity.
GSD 2.0 is now a standalone CLI built on the Pi SDK with direct TypeScript access to the agent harness. It can clear context between tasks, inject the right files at dispatch time, manage git branches, track cost and tokens, detect stuck loops, recover from crashes, and auto-advance through milestones without human intervention.
This represents a growing pattern in the agentic ecosystem: frameworks that sit between the human and the coding agent, providing structure, memory, and guardrails that the raw agent lacks.
GitHub: https://github.com/gsd-build/get-shit-done