Why I Built This

I'm a solo developer. I don't write code — Claude Code does.

Other spec-driven development tools exist; BMAD, Speckit... But they all seem to make things way more complicated than they need to be (sprint ceremonies, story points, stakeholder syncs, retrospectives, Jira workflows) or lack real big picture understanding of what you're building. I'm not a 50-person software company. I don't want to play enterprise theater. I'm just a creative person trying to build great things that work.

So I built GSD. The complexity is in the system, not in your workflow. Behind the scenes: context engineering, XML prompt formatting, subagent orchestration, state management. What you see: a few commands that just work.

The system gives Claude everything it needs to do the work and verify it. I trust the workflow. It just does a good job.

That's what this is. No enterprise roleplay bullshit. Just an incredibly effective system for building cool stuff consistently using Claude Code.

— TÂCHES

Vibecoding has a bad reputation. You describe what you want, AI generates code, and you get inconsistent garbage that falls apart at scale.

GSD fixes that. It's the context engineering layer that makes Claude Code reliable. Describe your idea, let the system extract everything it needs to know, and let Claude Code get to work.

Who This Is For

People who want to describe what they want and have it built correctly — without pretending they're running a 50-person engineering org.

Getting Started

npx get-shit-done-cc@latest

The installer prompts you to choose:

1. Runtime — Claude Code, OpenCode, Gemini, or all
2. Location — Global (all projects) or local (current project only)

Verify with /gsd:help inside your chosen runtime.

Staying Updated

GSD evolves fast. Update periodically:

npx get-shit-done-cc@latest

# Claude Code
npx get-shit-done-cc --claude --global   # Install to ~/.claude/
npx get-shit-done-cc --claude --local    # Install to ./.claude/

# OpenCode (open source, free models)
npx get-shit-done-cc --opencode --global # Install to ~/.config/opencode/

# Gemini CLI
npx get-shit-done-cc --gemini --global   # Install to ~/.gemini/

# All runtimes
npx get-shit-done-cc --all --global      # Install to all directories

Use --global (-g) or --local (-l) to skip the location prompt. Use --claude, --opencode, --gemini, or --all to skip the runtime prompt.

Clone the repository and run the installer locally:

git clone https://github.com/glittercowboy/get-shit-done.git
cd get-shit-done
node bin/install.js --claude --local

Installs to ./.claude/ for testing modifications before contributing.

Recommended: Skip Permissions Mode

GSD is designed for frictionless automation. Run Claude Code with:

claude --dangerously-skip-permissions

[!TIP] This is how GSD is intended to be used — stopping to approve date and git commit 50 times defeats the purpose.

If you prefer not to use that flag, add this to your project's .claude/settings.json:

{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "Bash(date:*)",
      "Bash(echo:*)",
      "Bash(cat:*)",
      "Bash(ls:*)",
      "Bash(mkdir:*)",
      "Bash(wc:*)",
      "Bash(head:*)",
      "Bash(tail:*)",
      "Bash(sort:*)",
      "Bash(grep:*)",
      "Bash(tr:*)",
      "Bash(git add:*)",
      "Bash(git commit:*)",
      "Bash(git status:*)",
      "Bash(git log:*)",
      "Bash(git diff:*)",
      "Bash(git tag:*)"
    ]
  }
}

How It Works

Already have code? Run /gsd:map-codebase first. It spawns parallel agents to analyze your stack, architecture, conventions, and concerns. Then /gsd:new-project knows your codebase — questions focus on what you're adding, and planning automatically loads your patterns.

1. Initialize Project

/gsd:new-project

One command, one flow. The system:

1. Questions — Asks until it understands your idea completely (goals, constraints, tech preferences, edge cases)
2. Research — Spawns parallel agents to investigate the domain (optional but recommended)
3. Requirements — Extracts what's v1, v2, and out of scope
4. Roadmap — Creates phases mapped to requirements

You approve the roadmap. Now you're ready to build.

Creates: PROJECT.md, REQUIREMENTS.md, ROADMAP.md, STATE.md, .planning/research/

2. Discuss Phase

/gsd:discuss-phase 1

This is where you shape the implementation.

Your roadmap has a sentence or two per phase. That's not enough context to build something the way you imagine it. This step captures your preferences before anything gets researched or planned.

The system analyzes the phase and identifies gray areas based on what's being built:

• Visual features → Layout, density, interactions, empty states
• APIs/CLIs → Response format, flags, error handling, verbosity
• Content systems → Structure, tone, depth, flow
• Organization tasks → Grouping criteria, naming, duplicates, exceptions

For each area you select, it asks until you're satisfied. The output — CONTEXT.md — feeds directly into the next two steps:

1. Researcher reads it — Knows what patterns to investigate ("user wants card layout" → research card component libraries)
2. Planner reads it — Knows what decisions are locked ("infinite scroll decided" → plan includes scroll handling)

The deeper you go here, the more the system builds what you actually want. Skip it and you get reasonable defaults. Use it and you get your vision.

Creates: {phase}-CONTEXT.md

3. Plan Phase

/gsd:plan-phase 1

The system:

1. Researches — Investigates how to implement this phase, guided by your CONTEXT.md decisions
2. Plans — Creates 2-3 atomic task plans with XML structure
3. Verifies — Checks plans against requirements, loops until they pass

Each plan is small enough to execute in a fresh context window. No degradation, no "I'll be more concise now."

Creates: {phase}-RESEARCH.md, {phase}-{N}-PLAN.md

4. Execute Phase

/gsd:execute-phase 1

The system:

1. Runs plans in waves — Parallel where possible, sequential when dependent
2. Fresh context per plan — 200k tokens purely for implementation, zero accumulated garbage
3. Commits per task — Every task gets its own atomic commit
4. Verifies against goals — Checks the codebase delivers what the phase promised

Walk away, come back to completed work with clean git history.

Creates: {phase}-{N}-SUMMARY.md, {phase}-VERIFICATION.md

5. Verify Work

/gsd:verify-work 1

This is where you confirm it actually works.

Automated verification checks that code exists and tests pass. But does the feature work the way you expected? This is your chance to use it.

The system:

1. Extracts testable deliverables — What you should be able to do now
2. Walks you through one at a time — "Can you log in with email?" Yes/no, or describe what's wrong
3. Diagnoses failures automatically — Spawns debug agents to find root causes
4. Creates verified fix plans — Ready for immediate re-execution

If everything passes, you move on. If something's broken, you don't manually debug — you just run /gsd:execute-phase again with the fix plans it created.

Creates: {phase}-UAT.md, fix plans if issues found

6. Repeat → Complete → Next Milestone

/gsd:discuss-phase 2
/gsd:plan-phase 2
/gsd:execute-phase 2
/gsd:verify-work 2
...
/gsd:complete-milestone
/gsd:new-milestone

Loop discuss → plan → execute → verify until milestone complete.

Each phase gets your input (discuss), proper research (plan), clean execution (execute), and human verification (verify). Context stays fresh. Quality stays high.

When all phases are done, /gsd:complete-milestone archives the milestone and tags the release.

Then /gsd:new-milestone starts the next version — same flow