Knowledge Base Index
Schema & ontology: see CONVENTIONS.md. Sections mirror the seven ontology namespaces — five in the process layer (framework / capability / sdlc-stage / artifact / pattern), the harness layer (the agent program), and the runtime execution layer. A final topic section holds curated cross-cutting overlays (Maps of Content) that sit above the ontology graph — see CONVENTIONS §The topic layer.
framework
Complete SDLC agent toolkits / methodologies (e.g. GSD, SpecKit, OpenSpec).
| Article | Summary | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| gsd | Git. Ship. Done. — context-engineering, spec-driven five-phase loop (Discuss→Plan→Execute→Verify→Ship) for AI coding agents; solves context rot via fresh-context subagents. | 2026-07-04 |
| matt-pocock-skills | Matt Pocock’s “Skills for Real Engineers” (v1.1) — a loose, composable toolkit (~38 skills) that stays small because it refuses to own the process (vs GSD/BMAD/Spec-Kit). Addresses four AI-coding failure modes; a documented main flow (grill→to-spec→to-tickets→implement→code-review) via /ask-matt. v1.1 added implement/code-review/research/wayfinder/merge-conflicts, renamed to-prd→to-spec & to-issues+to-plan→to-tickets. | 2026-07-09 |
| addy-agent-skills | Addy Osmani’s “Agent Skills” — 24 skills + 4 review personas + 8 commands organizing the whole lifecycle (Define→Plan→Build→Verify→Review→Ship); anti-rationalization guards, parallel persona fan-out. Broadest framework here. | 2026-07-04 |
| openspec | Fission AI’s “OpenSpec” — spec-driven development for AI assistants; fluid/brownfield-first. Explore→Propose→Apply→Verify→Archive. Signature: a living specification maintained by ADDED/MODIFIED/REMOVED deltas. Its “release” is spec-merge, not deploy. | 2026-07-04 |
| speckit | GitHub’s “Spec Kit” — the reference implementation of spec-driven development (Spec→Plan→Tasks→Implement) across 30+ agents. Signature: a project constitution of immutable principles that gate every plan/analysis; TDD non-negotiable. Largest community (106K★). No release/deploy step. | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad | BMAD-METHOD (v6) — “Breakthrough Method for Agile AI-Driven Development.” The most role-oriented & lifecycle-complete framework here: six named expert personas (Analyst/PM/Architect/Dev…) facilitate a scale-adaptive Analysis→Planning→Solutioning→Implementation pipeline. Signatures: persona agents + Party Mode, scale-adaptive ceremony, context-engineered story files. Deepest align/specify front-end; no deploy step (closes with a retrospective). ~50K★. | 2026-07-04 |
| compound-engineering | Every’s “Compound Engineering” (Shipper & Klaassen) — coding when agents write ~100% of the code. A self-feeding six-step loop (Brainstorm→Plan→Work→Simplify→Review→Compound) + autonomous /lfg. 80/20 planning-review split. Signature: knowledge compounding — learnings captured to docs/solutions/ and re-read by future agents. The only framework here whose lifecycle is a loop; promotes the new 7th canonical stage, stage-learn. ~22.6K★. | 2026-07-04 |
| gstack | Garry Tan’s (YC CEO) “gstack” — turns Claude Code into a virtual engineering team. The largest framework here (~54 skills), organized as a full sprint Think→Plan→Build→Review→Test→Ship→Reflect. Signatures: role personas (CEO/eng/designer/QA/CSO/SRE), a persistent browser daemon (“the eyes”), cross-model /codex second opinion, safety guardrails (careful/freeze/guard), and knowledge compounding (/learn + gbrain). The first framework with a genuine deploy step (/land-and-deploy) + post-deploy /canary. Spans all 8 stages; its clean Review∥Test partition promoted the new stage-review (with Addy), and it is a 3rd framework for stage-learn. MIT. | |
| bm-skills | Brian Casel’s (Builder Methods) “BM Skills” — a Claude Code plugin marketplace of small independent builder utilities; deliberately not a full-SDLC framework. Three skills: PRD Creator (the focus — a non-technical-builder interview → visual HTML PRD + milestone prompts), Design System scaffolder, Favicon Creator. Only PRD Creator maps to a canonical stage (specify). | 2026-07-09 |
| superpowers | Jesse Vincent’s (Prime Radiant) “Superpowers” — a complete methodology from a deliberately small library (14 skills, no personas, no commands, no deploy). A bootstrap skill (sp-using-superpowers) makes the rest auto-trigger (“if there’s even a 1% chance a skill applies, you MUST use it”), turning 14 skills into a mandatory gated pipeline (brainstorm→worktree→plan→subagent-driven→TDD→review→finish). Co-signature of pattern-anti-rationalization (Iron Laws + Red Flags everywhere); unusually cross-harness (Claude Code/Codex/Cursor/Kimi/OpenCode/Pi/…). Novel contributions: receiving-code-review (the review-reception side no one else pages) and verification-before-completion (pattern-evidence-before-claims). Touches 7 stages (no specify). MIT, v6.1.1. | 2026-07-17 |
| nano-spec | Tao An’s “nano-spec” — “Spec-driven thinking, nano-sized docs.” A deliberately minimal, tool-agnostic task-spec methodology (MIT, 46★); not a full-SDLC framework. One /nano-spec skill (create/status/update) generating a fixed 4-document pack per task (README/todo/doc/log) across 10 agents. The 8th member of the specify cluster — the minimalist pole (opposite gated maximalists like SpecKit/gstack and OpenSpec’s living spec); embodies scale-adaptive planning as a fixed middle tier on a no-spec→nano→full-spec spectrum. Only create maps to a canonical stage (specify). | 2026-07-13 |
| agent-os | Brian Casel’s (Builder Methods) Agent OS v3.0.0 — “Agents that build the way you would.” A deliberately narrow, non-full-SDLC framework: a durable guide layer (project standards + product docs) plus the front of the lifecycle (align + specify), handing build/review/validate/ship to the coding agent. Five commands, no sub-agents. v3 is a rare shrink — it deleted its own v2 scaffolding once Plan Mode + better models made it derivable, keeping only the non-derivable convention layer. The wiki’s purest instance of guides (feedforward); standards refined via bidirectional profile-sync (pattern-knowledge-compounding). MIT, ~5.2K★. | 2026-08-05 |
capability
Individual commands, skills, and sub-agents a framework ships (subtype: distinguishes).
| Article | Summary | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| gsd-discuss-phase | GSD command — Phase 1; adaptive questioning to lock decisions → CONTEXT.md. | 2026-07-04 |
| gsd-plan-phase | GSD command — Phase 2; research, atomic plan, eight-dimension verification loop → PLAN.md. | 2026-07-04 |
| gsd-execute-phase | GSD command — Phase 3; wave-based parallel execution via fresh-context executors. | 2026-07-04 |
| gsd-verify-work | GSD command — Phase 4; conversational UAT with auto-diagnosis → UAT.md. | 2026-06-27 |
| gsd-ship | GSD command — Phase 5; push branch, open PR, track merge, archive phase. | 2026-07-04 |
| gsd-phase-researcher | GSD sub-agent — four parallel domain-research instances → RESEARCH.md. | 2026-06-27 |
| gsd-planner | GSD sub-agent — Opus-tier atomic plan author → PLAN.md. | 2026-06-27 |
| gsd-plan-checker | GSD sub-agent — eight-dimension plan gate, up to three revisions. | 2026-06-27 |
| gsd-executor | GSD sub-agent — sole Edit-capable agent; one atomic commit per task. | 2026-06-27 |
| gsd-verifier | GSD sub-agent — goal-backward analysis after execution. | 2026-06-27 |
| gsd-debugger | GSD sub-agent — evidence-tracking bug investigation; clusters with mp-diagnosing-bugs + addy-debugging. | 2026-07-04 |
| mp-grill-me | MP skill — comprehensive interview on a plan/design until decisions resolve. | 2026-07-04 |
| mp-grilling | MP skill (model-invoked) — the reusable interview loop behind the grill skills (v1.1: confirmation gate + facts-vs-decisions HITL guarantee). | 2026-07-09 |
| mp-grill-with-docs | MP skill — grilling that builds a domain model (CONTEXT.md) + ADRs. | 2026-06-28 |
| mp-to-spec | MP skill — synthesize a conversation into a spec → artifact-spec-md (v1.1: renamed from to-prd; “spec” is the through-line term); specify cluster. | 2026-07-09 |
| mp-to-tickets | MP skill — break a plan/spec into tracer-bullet tickets with blocking edges (v1.1: to-issues + to-plan merged); handles wide refactors via expand–contract. | 2026-07-09 |
| mp-domain-modeling | MP skill (model-invoked) — build/sharpen the project domain model + ubiquitous language (v1.1: absorbed the deprecated ubiquitous-language skill). | 2026-07-09 |
| mp-codebase-design | MP skill (model-invoked) — design deep modules with small interfaces; clusters with addy-api-design. | 2026-07-04 |
| mp-tdd | MP skill (model-invoked) — test-first red → green loop (v1.1: reference-only; refactor moved to mp-code-review; “seam” leading word). | 2026-07-09 |
| mp-prototype | MP skill (model-invoked as of v1.1) — throwaway prototype (terminal app or toggleable UI variations) to answer a design question. | 2026-07-09 |
| mp-diagnosing-bugs | MP skill (model-invoked) — reproduce→minimize→hypothesize→instrument→fix; clusters with gsd-debugger + addy-debugging. | 2026-07-04 |
| mp-improve-codebase-architecture | MP skill — scan for architectural improvements; HTML reports. | 2026-06-28 |
| mp-handoff | MP skill — compact a conversation into a handoff document. | 2026-06-28 |
| mp-implement | MP skill — build the work from a spec/tickets; drives mp-tdd at seams, closes with mp-code-review, commits (v1.1, new); joins the execute cluster (implement). | 2026-07-09 |
| mp-code-review | MP skill — two-axis diff review: Standards (+ Fowler smell baseline) ∥ Spec, parallel sub-agents (v1.1, graduated from in-progress); code-review cluster (review). | 2026-07-09 |
| mp-research | MP skill — background agent investigating primary sources → cited Markdown → artifact-research-md (v1.1, new); counterpart to gsd-phase-researcher (plan). | 2026-07-09 |
| mp-wayfinder | MP skill — map work too big for one session as a shared investigation-ticket map on the tracker (v1.1, graduated from decision-mapping); resolves decisions upstream of the spec; scale-adaptive (align). | 2026-07-20 |
| mp-resolving-merge-conflicts | MP skill — resolve an in-progress merge/rebase from each side’s primary-source intent, run checks, finish (v1.1, new; implement). | 2026-07-09 |
| mp-triage | MP skill — move issues/PRs through a triage state machine → agent-ready briefs (newly paged; intake, align); counterpart to ce-sweep. | 2026-07-09 |
| mp-ask-matt | MP router — “which skill fits?”; frames the main flow idea→grill→to-spec→to-tickets→implement→code-review (newly paged); counterpart to addy-using-agent-skills + gstack-router. | 2026-07-09 |
| bm-prd-creator | BM Skills — PRD Creator: structured interview for non-technical builders → visual HTML/markdown PRD + milestone prompt files; specify cluster (7-framework); what-not-how boundary (specify). | 2026-07-09 |
| bm-design-system | BM Skills — scaffold a React + Tailwind v4 design system (live reference page + shadcn components + AGENTS.md guardrails); counterpart to addy-frontend-ui (implement). | 2026-07-09 |
| bm-favicon-creator | BM Skills — generate a full favicon set from a Lucide icon/SVG and wire the meta tags; pure asset utility (no stage). | 2026-07-09 |
| addy-using-agent-skills | Addy meta-skill — routes incoming work to the right skill; shared operating rules. | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-interview-me | Addy skill — one-question-at-a-time interview to ~95% intent confidence; grilling cluster. | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-idea-refine | Addy skill — divergent/convergent ideation turning vague ideas into concrete proposals. | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-spec-driven-development | Addy skill — write a six-area SPEC.md before code; the pair (with mp-to-spec) that promoted stage-specify. | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-planning | Addy skill — decompose a spec into small, verifiable, dependency-ordered tasks. | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-incremental-implementation | Addy skill — thin vertical slices: implement, test, verify, commit; feature flags. | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-tdd | Addy skill — Red-Green-Refactor + Prove-It for bugs; third framework in the TDD cluster. | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-context-engineering | Addy skill — feed the right context at the right time (rules files, packing, MCP). | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-source-driven-development | Addy skill — ground decisions in cited official docs; flag the unverified. | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-doubt-driven-development | Addy skill — in-flight adversarial fresh-context review (CLAIM→EXTRACT→DOUBT→RECONCILE→STOP). | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-frontend-ui | Addy skill — production-quality UI; design systems; WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility. | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-api-design | Addy skill — contract-first interfaces; Hyrum’s Law; One-Version Rule; clusters with mp-codebase-design. | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-browser-testing | Addy skill — live runtime data via Chrome DevTools MCP. | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-debugging | Addy skill — five-step triage (reproduce, localize, reduce, fix, guard); debugging cluster. | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-code-review | Addy skill — five-axis review with severity labels + change sizing → review report. | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-code-simplification | Addy skill — reduce complexity while preserving exact behavior (Chesterton’s Fence, Rule of 500). | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-security | Addy skill — OWASP Top 10 hardening; auth; secrets; dependency auditing. | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-performance | Addy skill — measure-first; Core Web Vitals; profiling; bundle analysis. | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-git-workflow | Addy skill — trunk-based dev; atomic commits; semver; changelogs. | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-ci-cd | Addy skill — Shift Left; feature flags; quality-gate pipelines. | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-deprecation | Addy skill — code-as-liability; compulsory vs advisory deprecation; zombie-code removal. | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-documentation | Addy skill — ADRs + API/inline docs; document the why. | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-observability | Addy skill — structured logging; RED metrics; OpenTelemetry; symptom-based alerting. | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-shipping | Addy skill — pre-launch checklist; staged rollout; rollback; the /ship persona fan-out; clusters with gsd-ship. | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-code-reviewer | Addy sub-agent — Staff-Engineer five-axis review persona (in the /ship fan-out). | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-test-engineer | Addy sub-agent — QA persona: coverage analysis + Prove-It (in the /ship fan-out). | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-security-auditor | Addy sub-agent — security-engineer persona: threat model + OWASP (in the /ship fan-out). | 2026-07-04 |
| addy-web-performance-auditor | Addy sub-agent — Core Web Vitals audit persona; Quick/Deep modes; run via /webperf. | 2026-07-04 |
| openspec-explore | OpenSpec command — investigate the codebase & compare approaches before committing; brownfield entry point (→ stage-align). | 2026-07-04 |
| openspec-propose | OpenSpec command — generate all planning artifacts (proposal + spec deltas + design + tasks) in one step; specify-cluster with mp-to-spec + addy-spec-driven. | 2026-07-04 |
| openspec-apply | OpenSpec command — implement the tasks.md checklist sequentially, resuming from checkpoints; execute-cluster with gsd-execute-phase + addy-incremental. | 2026-07-04 |
| openspec-verify | OpenSpec command — validate implementation vs spec artifacts (completeness/correctness/coherence); advisory, non-blocking (→ stage-validate). | 2026-07-04 |
| openspec-sync | OpenSpec command — merge a change’s spec deltas into the living main specs (RENAMED→REMOVED→MODIFIED→ADDED); the living-spec mechanism. | 2026-07-04 |
| openspec-archive | OpenSpec command — finalize a completed change: optionally sync, then move to archive/; finalize-cluster with gsd-ship + addy-shipping. | 2026-07-04 |
| speckit-constitution | Spec Kit command — establish immutable project governing principles (constitution.md); signature capability, no cross-framework counterpart. Governance flavor of align; parks stage-govern. | 2026-07-04 |
| speckit-specify | Spec Kit command — define WHAT/WHY as spec.md with user stories + [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers; four-framework specify cluster (mp-to-spec + addy-spec-driven + openspec-propose). | 2026-07-04 |
| speckit-clarify | Spec Kit command — iterative Q&A resolving the spec’s [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers; grilling cluster (spec-first ordering variant). | 2026-07-04 |
| speckit-plan | Spec Kit command — technical plan + design (plan.md/data-model.md/contracts/) + research, gated against the constitution; clusters with gsd-plan-phase; applies contract-first. | 2026-07-04 |
| speckit-tasks | Spec Kit command — decompose the plan into a [P]-parallelizable, test-first task list (tasks.md); decompose cluster with mp-to-tickets + addy-planning. | 2026-07-04 |
| speckit-analyze | Spec Kit command — cross-artifact consistency & coverage gate vs the constitution; plan-verification cluster with gsd-plan-checker (now two-framework). | 2026-07-04 |
| speckit-implement | Spec Kit command — execute tasks.md with TDD “NON-NEGOTIABLE”; execute cluster with gsd-execute + openspec-apply + addy-incremental. | 2026-07-04 |
| speckit-checklist | Spec Kit command — generate a quality checklist validating requirements (“unit tests for your English”) → artifact-checklist; spec-quality gate, no counterpart. | 2026-07-04 |
| speckit-converge | Spec Kit command — assess codebase vs spec/plan/tasks and append the gap as new tasks; validate cluster with openspec-verify but action-oriented (re-plans, not just reports). | 2026-07-04 |
| speckit-taskstoissues | Spec Kit command — export tasks.md to GitHub issues; equivalent to mp-to-tickets (export half). | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-analyst | BMAD sub-agent — Mary 📊, the Analysis persona; dispatches brainstorming/research/brief/PRFAQ/document-project (→ stage-align). | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-tech-writer | BMAD sub-agent — Paige 📚; documentation-as-context-engineering persona; owns document-project. | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-pm | BMAD sub-agent — John 📋, the Planning persona; owns PRD, epics/stories, readiness, correct-course (→ stage-specify). | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-ux-designer | BMAD sub-agent — Sally 🎨; UX persona; produces the DESIGN.md + EXPERIENCE.md spec. | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-architect | BMAD sub-agent — Winston 🏗️, the Solutioning persona; produces the architecture spine (→ stage-plan). | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-dev | BMAD sub-agent — Amelia 💻, the Implementation persona; absorbed SM + QA; owns create-story/dev/review/sprint/retro (→ stage-implement). | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-brainstorming | BMAD skill — diverge-then-converge ideation; clusters with addy-idea-refine. | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-forge-idea | BMAD skill — adversarially pressure-test an idea until it hardens or dies cheaply. | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-research | BMAD skill — market/domain/technical research up front in Analysis → artifact-research-md. | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-product-brief | BMAD skill — pre-PRD scoping brief → artifact-product-brief. | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-prfaq | BMAD skill — Amazon Working-Backwards PRFAQ stress-test → artifact-product-brief. | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-document-project | BMAD skill — brownfield codebase documentation for AI context; clusters with openspec-explore. | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-prd | BMAD skill — the facilitated create/update/validate PRD; fifth framework in the specify cluster → artifact-prd. | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-ux | BMAD skill — two-spine UX design spec (DESIGN.md visual + EXPERIENCE.md behavioral) → artifact-design-md. | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-spec | BMAD skill — the five-field SPEC kernel; Quick-Flow lightweight spec → artifact-spec-md. | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-architecture | BMAD skill — the invariants-only architecture spine → artifact-architecture. | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-create-epics-and-stories | BMAD skill — decompose requirements into epics of context-rich stories; decompose cluster → artifact-story. | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-check-implementation-readiness | BMAD skill — PASS/CONCERNS/FAIL readiness gate over PRD+UX+arch+epics; promotes plan-verification to three frameworks. | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-sprint-planning | BMAD skill — generate sprint-status.yaml, the story-loop state file. | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-create-story | BMAD skill — author the context-filled story spec; the plan→implement bridge → artifact-story. | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-dev-story | BMAD skill — implement one fully-contexted story test-first in fresh context; sixth framework in the execute cluster. | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-quick-dev | BMAD skill — Quick-Flow fast path (+ bmad-dev-auto unattended); the scale-adaptive shortcut. | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-code-review | BMAD skill — adversarial parallel review layers in fresh context; clusters with addy-code-review → artifact-review-report. | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-correct-course | BMAD skill — mid-flight re-planning valve for scope changes; relates to speckit-converge. | 2026-07-04 |
| bmad-retrospective | BMAD skill — post-epic Party-Mode learning close-out; moved 2026-07-04 from stage-release to the new stage-learn (co-evidence with ce-compound). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-strategy | CE skill — maintain STRATEGY.md, the upstream anchor ideate/brainstorm/plan read → artifact-strategy-md (align). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-ideate | CE skill — conceptual-frame + adversarial-filter idea discovery; clusters with bmad-brainstorming + addy-idea-refine (align). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-pov | CE skill — decisive Adopt/Trial/Hold/Reject verdict on external inputs, dual-grounded (align). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-brainstorm | CE skill — requirements-only dialogue → artifact-brainstorm-md; grilling cluster (align). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-sweep | CE skill — consolidate Slack/GitHub feedback into next-cycle inputs (align, feedback-intake). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-plan | CE skill — enrich requirements into guardrail plans (U-IDs + test scenarios, WHAT-not-HOW) → artifact-plan-md; plan cluster (plan). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-doc-review | CE skill — persona fan-out over requirements/plans before code; plan-verification cluster, now four-framework (plan). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-work | CE skill — execute the guardrailed plan in worktree isolation; seventh member of the execute cluster (implement). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-worktree | CE skill — ensure work runs in an isolated git worktree; signature pattern-worktree-isolation (implement). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-debug | CE skill — causal-chain root-cause with prediction-confirmation; debugging cluster (implement). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-polish | CE skill — conversational UX iteration against a live dev server (implement). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-simplify-code | CE skill — reduce complexity in fresh code, behavior-preserving; direct counterpart to addy-code-simplification (review). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-code-review | CE skill — ~16-persona confidence-gated review, adversarial + cross-model → artifact-review-report; code-review cluster (review). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-optimize | CE skill — metric-driven, parallel-experiment optimization; counterpart to addy-performance (review). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-test-browser | CE skill — diff-scoped end-to-end browser tests; counterpart to addy-browser-testing (validate). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-test-xcode | CE skill — iOS simulator build/test via XcodeBuildMCP; the wiki’s only native-iOS validator (validate). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-dogfood | CE skill — autonomous, self-fixing diff-scoped browser QA (validate, pattern-autonomous-loop). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-commit | CE skill — one convention-aware atomic commit → artifact-atomic-commit; clusters with addy-git-workflow (release). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-commit-push-pr | CE skill — working changes → open PR → artifact-pull-request; finalize cluster with gsd-ship/addy-shipping (release). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-resolve-pr-feedback | CE skill — evaluate/fix/reply to PR review feedback in parallel (release, pre-merge). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-promote | CE skill — draft user-facing launch announcements across channels (release, announce). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-product-pulse | CE skill — time-windowed post-release usage/perf/error report (release, operate/monitor). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-compound | CE skill — the money step: mine completed work → docs/solutions/ (artifact-solution-doc); promoted stage-learn (learn). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-compound-refresh | CE skill — maintain the solution corpus (Keep/Update/Consolidate/Replace/Delete) (learn). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-explain | CE skill — dense visual explainers of concepts/diffs → artifact-explainer; human-facing learning (learn). | 2026-07-04 |
| lfg | CE command — autonomous full pipeline plan→work→simplify→review→commit→PR→green CI (orchestrator, plan–release). | 2026-07-04 |
| ce-repo-profiler | CE sub-agent — question-agnostic cached project profile reused across all grounding skills (align). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-learnings-researcher | CE sub-agent — reads the docs/solutions/ corpus back into new work; the consuming side of knowledge-compounding (align). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-slack-researcher | CE sub-agent — org-knowledge digest from Slack (align). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-web-researcher | CE sub-agent — external grounding digest for ideation (align). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-issue-intelligence-analyst | CE sub-agent — theme-level (not ticket-level) issue-tracker intelligence (align). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-external-evidence-researcher | CE sub-agent — verified external evidence for ce-pov verdicts; gathers, never recommends (align). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-precedent-activity-scout | CE sub-agent — prior-decision precedent + incumbent pain for ce-pov (align). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-project-grounding-scout | CE sub-agent — this-codebase floor for ce-pov verdicts (align). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-media-analyzer | CE sub-agent — turns feedback media (Riffrec/video) into a bug-shaped finding inside ce-sweep (align). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-agent-native-planning-strategist | CE sub-agent — decides whether agents are first-class users, feeds plan inputs (plan). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-architecture-strategist | CE sub-agent — reviews changes for architectural alignment/integrity; relates to bmad-architect (plan). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-spec-flow-analyzer | CE sub-agent — surfaces missing flows/edge-cases pre-implementation; plan-verification lens (plan). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-git-history-analyzer | CE sub-agent — repo archaeology (log/blame) as planning context (plan). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-data-migration-reviewer | CE sub-agent — migration correctness + rollback, converted to plan requirements (plan). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-deployment-verification-agent | CE sub-agent — launch-readiness checklist (artifact-launch-checklist) at plan time (plan). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-figma-design-sync | CE sub-agent — pixel-perfect Figma↔code synchronization (implement). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-security-sentinel | CE sub-agent — attacker-minded security audit → artifact-security-audit; counterpart to addy-security-auditor (review; also compound council). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-performance-oracle | CE sub-agent — bottleneck analysis → artifact-perf-audit; counterpart to addy-web-performance-auditor (review; also compound council). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-pattern-recognition-specialist | CE sub-agent — design/anti-pattern + recurring-problem analysis; core of compounding generalization (review/learn). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-data-integrity-guardian | CE sub-agent — data-safety / migration-integrity / privacy review (review; also compound council). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-repo-research-analyst | CE sub-agent — repo research converted to optimization inputs (hot paths, metrics surfaces) for ce-optimize (review). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-pr-comment-resolver | CE sub-agent — implements one orchestrator-validated PR-review fix in parallel (release). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-best-practices-researcher | CE sub-agent — authoritative best-practice synthesis → enriches solution docs (learn; compound council). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-framework-docs-researcher | CE sub-agent — framework/version docs as evidence for solution docs (learn; compound council). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-session-historian | CE sub-agent — synthesizes lessons from prior agent sessions (Claude Code/Codex/Cursor/Pi) (learn; compound council). | 2026-07-05 |
| ce-work-recap-scout | CE sub-agent — gathers recent-work evidence (git/PRs) for ce-explain’s explainer (learn). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-router | gstack root skill — routes work to the right specialist skill + proactive suggestions; counterpart to addy-using-agent-skills (meta/dispatcher, no stage). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-office-hours | gstack command — YC Office Hours; reframe the product with six forcing questions → design doc that feeds the plan reviews; grilling cluster (align). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-plan-ceo-review | gstack command — CEO/founder plan review; find the 10-star product; four scope modes; persona panel (plan). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-plan-eng-review | gstack command — Eng-Manager plan review; lock architecture/data-flow/edge-cases/tests; plan-verification cluster, now five-framework (plan). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-plan-design-review | gstack command — Senior-Designer plan review; rate each design dimension 0-10 + AI-slop detection; boomerang of design-review (plan). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-plan-devex-review | gstack command — DX-Lead plan review; TTHW, personas, magical moment, friction traces; boomerang of devex-review (plan). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-autoplan | gstack command — run the CEO→design→eng→DX review panel with auto-decisions + smart review routing; orchestrator (plan). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-plan-tune | gstack command — self-tune the plan reviews’ question sensitivity + developer psychographic (plan, meta). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-design-consultation | gstack command — build a complete design system from scratch → DESIGN.md; counterpart to bmad-ux (plan, design). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-spec | gstack command — vague intent → five-phase executable spec; Codex quality gate; files a GitHub issue; —execute in a worktree; sixth framework in the specify cluster (specify). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-design-shotgun | gstack command — generate 4-6 AI mockup variants + comparison board + taste memory → artifact-design-mockup (implement, design exploration). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-design-html | gstack command — turn an approved mockup into production Pretext-native HTML/CSS (implement). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-investigate | gstack command — Iron-Law root-cause debugging (no fix without investigation; auto-freeze; stop after 3); debugging cluster (implement). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-scrape | gstack command — pull structured data from a web page via the browse daemon; compounds via skillify (implement). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-careful | gstack command — warn before destructive commands; pattern-edit-guardrails (implement, safety). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-freeze | gstack command — hard-lock edits to one directory; pattern-edit-guardrails (implement, safety). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-guard | gstack command — careful + freeze combined (implement, safety). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-unfreeze | gstack command — clear the freeze boundary (implement, safety). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-context-save | gstack command — save working context + WIP checkpoint commits; session-handoff cluster with mp-handoff (implement). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-context-restore | gstack command — restore session state from saved context / WIP commits, across Conductor workspaces (implement). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-review | gstack command — Staff-Engineer pre-landing PR review; auto-fixes the obvious; code-review cluster → artifact-review-report (review). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-codex | gstack command — OpenAI Codex second opinion (review/challenge/consult); pattern-cross-model-review; also spec’s quality gate (review). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-design-review | gstack command — live visual audit + fix loop with atomic commits; boomerang of plan-design-review (review). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-devex-review | gstack command — live developer-experience audit; measures TTHW; boomerang of plan-devex-review (review). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-cso | gstack command — Chief Security Officer; OWASP Top 10 + STRIDE with exploit scenarios → artifact-security-audit; security cluster (review). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-health | gstack command — standing code-quality dashboard (type/lint/tests/dead-code) (review). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-qa | gstack command — real-browser QA that fixes bugs + generates a regression test per fix; browser-testing cluster; pattern-autonomous-loop (validate, Test). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-qa-only | gstack command — same QA methodology, report-only (no code changes) (validate, Test). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-benchmark | gstack command — Core Web Vitals / load regression benchmark before/after per PR → artifact-perf-audit; performance cluster (review). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-ios-qa | gstack command — live-device iOS QA over USB/Tailscale; counterpart to ce-test-xcode but real hardware (validate, Test). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-ios-fix | gstack command — autonomous iOS bug fixer with regression-snapshot capture (validate, Test). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-ios-design-review | gstack command — designer’s-eye iOS audit on real hardware; 10-dim Apple HIG rubric (review). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-ios-sync | gstack command — regenerate the iOS debug-bridge accessors for ios-qa (validate, enabling). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-browse | gstack command — persistent headless-Chromium daemon (“the eyes”) behind live QA/audit skills (validate, enabling infra). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-open-gstack-browser | gstack command — visible GStack Browser with sidebar + anti-bot stealth + auto model routing (validate, enabling). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-setup-browser-cookies | gstack command — import real-browser cookies into the headless session for authenticated testing (validate, enabling). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-pair-agent | gstack command — pair a cross-vendor AI agent with your browser (scoped tokens, tab isolation); novel, no counterpart (implement, collaboration). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-ship | gstack command — Release Engineer; test, review, bump VERSION+CHANGELOG, commit, push, open PR; finalize cluster → artifact-pull-request (release). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-land-and-deploy | gstack command — merge PR, wait for CI + deploy, verify production health; the first genuine deploy step in the wiki (release, deploy). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-canary | gstack command — SRE post-deploy monitoring loop; counterpart to ce-product-pulse (release, operate/monitor). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-landing-report | gstack command — read-only dashboard for the workspace-aware ship queue (release). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-document-release | gstack command — post-ship doc update + Diataxis coverage map → artifact-diataxis-docs; auto-invoked by ship (release, docs). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-document-generate | gstack command — generate missing Diataxis docs from code → artifact-diataxis-docs (release, docs). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-setup-deploy | gstack command — one-time deploy-config detection for land-and-deploy (release, enabling). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-ios-clean | gstack command — strip DebugBridge + if DEBUG wiring before a Release build (release, enabling). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-retro | gstack command — team-aware weekly retrospective → artifact-retrospective; counterpart to bmad-retrospective; team-process flavor of learn (learn). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-learn | gstack command — manage the cross-session learnings corpus → artifact-solution-doc; agent-grounding flavor; counterpart to ce-compound (learn). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-skillify | gstack command — codify a successful scrape into a permanent browser-skill; capability-compounding (learn). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-setup-gbrain | gstack command — set up gbrain persistent cross-machine memory (PGLite/Supabase/remote MCP) (learn, enabling). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-sync-gbrain | gstack command — re-index repo code into gbrain + write CLAUDE.md search guidance; pattern-context-engineering (learn, enabling). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-diagram | gstack command — English/mermaid → diagram triplet (mermaid + editable .excalidraw + SVG/PNG), offline (cross-cutting utility, no stage). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-make-pdf | gstack command — markdown → publication-quality PDF (renders mermaid/excalidraw), —to html | docx (cross-cutting utility, no stage). |
| gstack-benchmark-models | gstack command — cross-model benchmark of gstack’s own skills (Claude/GPT/Gemini); meta-tooling (no stage). | 2026-07-05 |
| gstack-upgrade | gstack command — self-updater (global vs vendored install); meta-tooling (no stage). | 2026-07-05 |
| nano-spec-create | nano-spec command — generate the minimal 4-document pack (README/todo/doc/log) from a one-line description; the 8th specify-cluster member, minimalist/tool-agnostic (specify). | 2026-07-13 |
| nano-spec-status | nano-spec command — read todo.md+log.md and report progress (done vs total, blockers, last-log date); read-only status surface; session-handoff (no stage). | 2026-07-13 |
| nano-spec-update | nano-spec command — apply a change to the pack and append a dated log.md entry; keeps the spec a living, handoff-ready doc through the build (no stage). | 2026-07-13 |
| sp-using-superpowers | Superpowers skill — the session-start bootstrap that forces skill invocation before any action (“1% chance → you MUST use it”); router + anti-rationalization gate (no stage). Counterpart to addy-using-agent-skills / gstack-router / mp-ask-matt. | 2026-07-17 |
| sp-brainstorming | Superpowers skill — Socratic one-question-at-a-time design refinement; 2-3 approaches; design in sections; HARD-GATE before any code → artifact-design-md; grilling cluster (align). | 2026-07-17 |
| sp-writing-plans | Superpowers skill — decompose an approved design into bite-sized (2-5 min) tasks with exact files, complete code, interfaces, verification; no placeholders; bakes the TDD loop into each task → artifact-plan-md; plan/decompose cluster (plan). | 2026-07-17 |
| sp-subagent-driven-development | Superpowers skill — the recommended executor: fresh implementer subagent per task + two-stage task review (spec ∥ quality) + final whole-branch review; explicit model selection; durable ledger (implement). | 2026-07-17 |
| sp-executing-plans | Superpowers skill — the parallel-session executor: batch execution with human checkpoints (subagent-free fallback); execute cluster (now eight-framework) (implement). | 2026-07-17 |
| sp-test-driven-development | Superpowers skill — RED-GREEN-REFACTOR; Iron Law “no production code without a failing test first” (delete code written before its test); fourth+ TDD-cluster framework (implement). | 2026-07-17 |
| sp-systematic-debugging | Superpowers skill — four-phase root-cause process; Iron Law “no fixes without investigation”; question the architecture after 3 failed fixes; tightest counterpart gstack-investigate (implement). | 2026-07-17 |
| sp-verification-before-completion | Superpowers skill — signature honesty gate: “no completion claims without fresh verification evidence” (pattern-evidence-before-claims); verifies the agent’s own claims, not spec-conformance; no counterpart (validate). | 2026-07-17 |
| sp-requesting-code-review | Superpowers skill — dispatch a fresh-context reviewer subagent, act on findings by severity → artifact-review-report; code-review cluster (now six-framework) (review). | 2026-07-17 |
| sp-receiving-code-review | Superpowers skill — how to respond to review: technical evaluation over performative agreement (“You’re absolutely right!” forbidden), verify-then-implement, reasoned pushback. Novel — the review-reception side no other framework pages (review). | 2026-07-17 |
| sp-using-git-worktrees | Superpowers skill — ensure an isolated workspace: detect existing isolation → native tool → git-worktree fallback → clean-baseline check; counterpart to ce-worktree (pattern-worktree-isolation now two-framework) (implement). | 2026-07-17 |
| sp-finishing-a-development-branch | Superpowers skill — verify tests → detect workspace → present exactly four options (merge / PR / keep / discard) → execute → clean up worktree; finalize cluster (now five-framework); no deploy → artifact-pull-request (release). | 2026-07-17 |
| sp-dispatching-parallel-agents | Superpowers skill — one focused subagent per independent problem domain, dispatched concurrently, then integrated; the concurrent-dispatch half of pattern-wave-parallelism (implement). | 2026-07-17 |
| sp-writing-skills | Superpowers skill — create/edit skills via TDD-for-documentation (baseline a subagent failing → write skill → watch it comply); the library grows itself → artifact-skill-doc; capability-compounding, ↔ gstack-skillify (learn). | 2026-07-17 |
| agent-os-discover-standards | Agent OS command — mine the codebase’s tribal knowledge into concise standards, one “why”-interrogated file at a time; documents only unconventional patterns; seeds the sync-to-profile compounding loop (guide layer; no stage). | 2026-08-05 |
| agent-os-index-standards | Agent OS command — maintain index.yml (standard → one-line description), the token-efficient matcher that lets standards load selectively instead of all-at-once (context-engineering plumbing; no stage). | 2026-08-05 |
| agent-os-inject-standards | Agent OS command — deploy the relevant standards into context (auto-suggest or explicit), choosing file-reference vs embedded-snapshot payloads; the wiki’s purest pattern-context-engineering act (no stage). | 2026-08-05 |
| agent-os-plan-product | Agent OS command — one-question interview establishing the standing mission/roadmap/tech-stack docs → artifact-product-docs; counterpart to ce-strategy (align, product-direction flavor). | 2026-08-05 |
| agent-os-shape-spec | Agent OS command — shape (not generate) a spec in Plan Mode into a persistent, timestamped pack with the matching standards bound in; the 9th specify-cluster member (specify). | 2026-08-05 |
sdlc-stage
Canonical lifecycle stages — derived projections synthesized from implements: backlinks.
| Article | Summary | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| stage-align | Align on what to build before implementation (GSD Discuss / MP grilling / Addy interview-me / OpenSpec explore / SpecKit clarify / BMAD Analysis / CE brainstorm / gstack office-hours / Superpowers brainstorming / Agent OS plan-product). Ten frameworks; grilling + codebase-investigation + ideation + pressure-testing + product-direction flavors; stage-govern parked (Agent OS sharpens the advisory-vs-gated line). | 2026-08-05 |
| stage-specify | Author the durable spec before code (MP to-spec + Addy spec-driven + OpenSpec propose + SpecKit specify + BMAD PRD + gstack spec + BM PRD-Creator + nano-spec create + Agent OS shape-spec). Now nine-framework; SpecKit adds a checklist gate, gstack a cross-model gate, BM a non-technical-builder HTML PRD, nano-spec the minimalist pole, Agent OS uniquely binds project standards into the spec pack. | 2026-08-05 |
| stage-plan | Research, design, decompose into verified units (GSD Plan / MP issues / Addy planning / SpecKit plan+tasks+analyze / BMAD Solutioning / CE plan+doc-review / gstack plan-review panel / Superpowers writing-plans; OpenSpec folds it into propose). Decompose cluster now six-framework; plan-verification five-framework; design candidate still parked. | 2026-07-17 |
| stage-implement | Write the code that satisfies the plan (GSD Execute / MP build / Addy Build / OpenSpec apply / SpecKit implement / BMAD dev-story / CE work / gstack build / Superpowers subagent-driven+executing-plans). Execute-cluster eight-framework; debugging + TDD + worktree-isolation + interface-design clusters; Superpowers adds the densest implement roster (SDD/TDD/debug/worktrees/parallel-agents). | 2026-07-17 |
| stage-validate | Confirm the build works — functional only (UAT, runtime/browser tests, spec-conformance): GSD Verify / Addy browser-testing / OpenSpec verify / SpecKit converge / CE test+dogfood / gstack Test (QA/iOS) / Superpowers verification-before-completion (a distinct claim-verification lens, pattern-evidence-before-claims). Superpowers is now the 3rd framework cleanly separating validate from review. | 2026-07-17 |
| stage-review | Confirm the build is good — the quality gate (code review, security, performance, simplification, architecture, design/DX audit): MP audit / Addy Review + /ship personas / BMAD code-review / CE simplify+review+optimize / gstack review+codex+cso+design/devex / Superpowers requesting+receiving-code-review. Code-review cluster now six-framework; Superpowers alone pages the review-reception side and is the 3rd framework with the clean Verify∥Review partition. | 2026-07-17 |
| stage-release | Finalize & deliver the iteration (GSD Ship / Addy Ship / OpenSpec sync+archive / CE commit-push-pr+promote / gstack ship+land-and-deploy+canary / Superpowers finishing-a-development-branch). Finalize cluster now five-framework; two flavors: ship-to-prod vs spec-maintenance. Superpowers offers a merge/PR/keep/discard decision menu and (like GSD/OpenSpec) stops at PR/merge — no deploy. stage-operate candidate still capability-level only. | 2026-07-17 |
| stage-learn | The 7th stage. Harvest reusable learnings from completed work and fold them into a durable form future iterations read as grounding — the loop-closing arrow. Four frameworks: agent-grounding corpus (CE / gstack) vs team retrospective (BMAD / gstack) vs capability-compounding (gstack-skillify / Superpowers writing-skills). Plausibly the first genuinely new SDLC stage the agent era adds. | 2026-07-17 |
artifact
Concrete outputs capabilities produce (commits, specs, plans, …). See the visual artifact index — a whole-lifecycle flow overview plus one per-stage diagram showing how these artifacts relate and lead into one another.
| Article | Summary | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| artifact-phase-context | GSD {phase}-CONTEXT.md — locked decisions + scope (name clashes with MP domain-model). | 2026-07-20 |
| artifact-plan-md | {phase}-PLAN.md — executable task prompts (GSD); also Addy tasks/plan.md+todo.md; OpenSpec/SpecKit tasks.md; CE guardrail plans; BM milestones/N/prompt.md build prompts; nano-spec todo.md; Superpowers bite-sized docs/superpowers/plans/… from sp-writing-plans. | 2026-07-17 |
| artifact-research-md | RESEARCH.md — domain/tech research output (GSD parallel researchers; SpecKit research.md; BMAD Analysis-phase research; MP mp-research background primary-source agent). | 2026-07-09 |
| artifact-uat-md | {phase}-UAT.md — UAT results + diagnosed gaps. | 2026-06-27 |
| artifact-atomic-commit | One atomic git commit per completed task/slice/story (GSD + Addy + BMAD + CE + gstack + Superpowers). | 2026-07-17 |
| artifact-pull-request | PR opened at ship time with auto summary (GSD + Addy + CE + gstack + Superpowers). | 2026-07-17 |
| artifact-prd | Product Requirements Document — the durable requirements spec (BMAD bmad-prd + BM Skills bm-prd-creator; MP’s former to-prd now produces a spec → artifact-spec-md). | 2026-07-09 |
| artifact-issue | Tracker issue from a plan/spec — MP to-tickets (tracer-bullet + blocking edges), wayfinder (investigation tickets), triage (agent-ready briefs); SpecKit exports tasks.md; gstack-spec files a deduped issue. | 2026-07-09 |
| artifact-adr | Architecture Decision Record — MP (during grilling), Addy (at decision/ship time), and nano-spec (doc.md Key Decisions). | 2026-07-13 |
| artifact-domain-model | MP CONTEXT.md — shared-language glossary (name clashes with GSD phase-context). | 2026-06-28 |
| artifact-handoff-doc | Compacted handoff document for agent/session transitions (MP). | 2026-06-28 |
| artifact-spec-md | The spec document written before code — Addy SPEC.md + SpecKit spec.md + BMAD SPEC kernel + gstack five-phase spec (Codex-gated) + MP to-spec (v1.1, seams-first); counterpart to artifact-prd. | 2026-07-09 |
| artifact-review-report | Code review report — Addy five-axis + BMAD adversarial + CE persona + gstack (review/codex/design/devex) + MP two-axis (Standards∥Spec) + Superpowers (sp-requesting-code-review severity-labelled) findings. | 2026-07-17 |
| artifact-security-audit | OWASP threat/vulnerability audit report (Addy + CE + gstack; gstack-cso adds STRIDE + exploit scenarios). | 2026-07-05 |
| artifact-perf-audit | Core Web Vitals scorecard; metric-honesty rule (Addy + CE + gstack; gstack-benchmark adds before/after-per-PR regression). | 2026-07-05 |
| artifact-changelog | Changelog + semantic-version tag (Addy + gstack; gstack-ship bumps VERSION + CHANGELOG). | 2026-07-05 |
| artifact-launch-checklist | Pre-launch checklist + rollback plan; the /ship go/no-go (Addy). | 2026-07-04 |
| artifact-spec-delta | OpenSpec’s signature — ADDED/MODIFIED/REMOVED requirement deltas (+ Given/When/Then scenarios) against a living spec; merged on archive. | 2026-07-04 |
| artifact-proposal-md | OpenSpec proposal.md — the why/what + scope of a change; rationale layer, narrower than a full PRD/SPEC.md. | 2026-07-04 |
| artifact-design-md | Design/technical-approach doc — OpenSpec design.md; SpecKit plan.md+data-model.md+contracts/; BMAD UX DESIGN.md+EXPERIENCE.md; gstack + BM design systems (design-consultation / bm-design-system code scaffold); Superpowers docs/superpowers/specs/…-design.md from sp-brainstorming. | 2026-07-17 |
| artifact-constitution | SpecKit’s signature — .specify/memory/constitution.md; immutable project-wide governing principles (numbered articles) that gate every downstream plan/analysis. | 2026-07-04 |
| artifact-checklist | SpecKit quality checklist validating requirements completeness/clarity/consistency (“unit tests for your English”); a spec-quality gate. | 2026-07-04 |
| artifact-story | BMAD’s signature — a context-rich story-[slug].md (AC + tasks + Dev Notes + Dev Agent Record) that embeds all implementation context; the atomic unit of work. Richer counterpart to artifact-issue. | 2026-07-04 |
| artifact-architecture | BMAD ARCHITECTURE-SPINE.md — a lean invariants-only system-architecture contract; structure is “seed”, owned by code once it exists. Above artifact-design-md. | 2026-07-04 |
| artifact-product-brief | Pre-PRD align-stage scoping doc — BMAD brief.md (+ PRFAQ + forged-idea) + gstack office-hours reframed design doc; akin to OpenSpec’s proposal.md. | 2026-07-05 |
| artifact-solution-doc | CE’s signature — schema-validated docs/solutions/ learning file; machine-consumable grounding future agents auto-read (CE + gstack-learn). The agent-facing output of stage-learn; counterpart to artifact-retrospective. | 2026-07-05 |
| artifact-brainstorm-md | CE docs/brainstorms/ requirements-only unified plan (WHAT, no HOW); lighter/earlier than a PRD, feeds ce-plan. | 2026-07-04 |
| artifact-strategy-md | CE STRATEGY.md upstream product-strategy anchor read by ideate/brainstorm/plan; structural analogue of SpecKit’s constitution (different scope). | 2026-07-04 |
| artifact-explainer | CE dense visual explainer of a concept/diff/recent work (ce-explain); the human-facing learning sibling of artifact-solution-doc. | 2026-07-04 |
| artifact-design-mockup | gstack AI-generated visual mockup variants on a comparison board with taste memory (gstack-design-shotgun); disposable design exploration, distinct from the design system (design-md) and the production HTML. | 2026-07-05 |
| artifact-diataxis-docs | gstack Diataxis-structured documentation (tutorial/how-to/reference/explanation) generated to match the code with a coverage map (gstack-document-generate / -release). | 2026-07-05 |
| artifact-retrospective | The retrospective report — team-process flavor of stage-learn (gstack-retro weekly + BMAD bmad-retrospective post-epic); the human-facing sibling of artifact-solution-doc. | 2026-07-05 |
| artifact-nano-spec-pack | nano-spec’s signature — a per-task folder of exactly 4 tiny markdown files (README=context/scope · todo=plan+acceptance · doc=decisions/schema · log=dated journey); the minimalist alternative to a single-doc spec/PRD/delta. | 2026-07-13 |
| artifact-skill-doc | A reusable skill definition (SKILL.md + supporting files) — executable process knowledge that auto-triggers and is followed as a procedure. Superpowers’ sp-writing-skills (TDD-for-docs) + gstack’s gstack-skillify; the capability-compounding output of stage-learn. | 2026-07-17 |
| artifact-standards | Agent OS’s signature — a project-local corpus of declarative coding conventions (agent-os/standards/ + an index.yml matcher), token-frugal and injected on demand; the guide (feedforward) layer of topic-harness-engineering. The advisory, mined-from-code counterpart to SpecKit’s gated constitution. | 2026-08-05 |
| artifact-product-docs | Agent OS agent-os/product/ trio — mission.md + roadmap.md + tech-stack.md; a lightweight standing product-direction anchor (from agent-os-plan-product); counterpart to CE’s STRATEGY.md. | 2026-08-05 |
pattern
Reusable techniques capabilities apply (wave parallelism, plan-then-act, …).
| Article | Summary | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| pattern-spec-driven-development | Drive agents from explicit versioned specs, not freeform prompts. Shared: GSD + MP + Addy + OpenSpec + SpecKit + BMAD + gstack + BM + nano-spec + Agent OS (SpecKit is the reference implementation; nano-spec + Agent OS the minimalist/shape-not-generate instances). | 2026-08-05 |
| pattern-living-specification | Keep a permanent spec as source of truth; express each change as a merged delta (OpenSpec’s signature). | 2026-07-04 |
| pattern-project-constitution | Externalize immutable project-wide principles into one governing document and gate every downstream artifact against it (SpecKit’s signature). | 2026-07-04 |
| pattern-fresh-context-subagents | Clean-context subagents per task to beat context rot. Shared: GSD + Addy + BMAD + CE + gstack + Superpowers (Superpowers: fresh subagent per task/review/problem, briefs as files). | 2026-07-17 |
| pattern-wave-parallelism | Group independent tasks into dependency-ordered parallel waves (GSD); Superpowers’ sp-dispatching-parallel-agents is the concurrent-dispatch variant without dependency ordering; infra-side: sandcastle (parallel runs / session fork). | 2026-07-26 |
| pattern-plan-verification-loop | Gate plans through a multi-dimension checker (or persona panel) before execution. Shared: GSD + SpecKit + BMAD + CE + gstack (now five-framework). | 2026-07-05 |
| pattern-grilling | Interrogate the human until decisions resolve. Shared: GSD + MP + Addy + SpecKit + BMAD + CE + gstack + Superpowers + Agent OS (Agent OS makes AskUserQuestion interviews its only interaction mode). | 2026-08-05 |
| pattern-test-driven-development | Red-green-refactor; test-first feedback. Shared: GSD + MP + Addy + SpecKit + BMAD + gstack + Superpowers (non-negotiable in SpecKit via constitution; Superpowers via delete-and-restart rhetoric, even applied to skill authoring). | 2026-07-17 |
| pattern-vertical-slice | Top-to-bottom independently-shippable work units. Shared: GSD + MP + Addy + BMAD + CE + Superpowers (Superpowers: each plan task is the smallest unit carrying its own test cycle). | 2026-07-17 |
| pattern-systematic-debugging | Reproduce→minimize→hypothesize→instrument→fix. Shared: GSD + MP + Addy + CE + gstack + Superpowers (gstack + Superpowers share an Iron-Law “no fix without investigation” + stop-after-3). | 2026-07-17 |
| pattern-session-handoff | Compact context across session/agent boundaries. Shared: GSD + MP + gstack + nano-spec (gstack adds WIP-checkpoint commits; nano-spec’s always-current 4-file pack is itself the handoff); infra-side: sandcastle (session resume) + warren (mulch/steer). | 2026-07-26 |
| pattern-deep-modules | Ousterhout — rich functionality behind a simple interface (MP + Addy). | 2026-07-04 |
| pattern-throwaway-prototype | Build to learn, then discard. Shared: MP + gstack (gstack-design-shotgun mockup variants). | 2026-07-05 |
| pattern-anti-rationalization | Excuse/rebuttal tables + Red Flags in every skill; co-signature of Addy + Superpowers (Superpowers escalates to Iron Laws + a skill-discovery bootstrap). | 2026-07-17 |
| pattern-evidence-before-claims | Verify, then assert: run the command and read the output before any “done/fixed/passing” claim. Superpowers’ signature (sp-verification-before-completion Iron Law); the honesty gate adjacent to anti-rationalization. | 2026-07-17 |
| pattern-adversarial-review | ”The reviewer must find issues” — doubt loop / hunter layers / idea pressure-test / Codex challenge / dispatched two-stage review. Shared: Addy + BMAD + CE + gstack + Superpowers. | 2026-07-17 |
| pattern-source-grounding | Cite official docs; research before building; flag the unverified. Shared: Addy + CE + gstack (gstack’s “Search Before Building” ethos). | 2026-07-05 |
| pattern-context-engineering | Curate the right context at the right time; engineer it into the work unit. Shared: Addy + BMAD + gstack + Agent OS (Agent OS is built around this — inject-standards + the index.yml matcher); harness-side: CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md + MCP. | 2026-08-05 |
| pattern-contract-first | Design the interface before the implementation; Hyrum’s Law. Shared: Addy + SpecKit (SpecKit’s contracts/). | 2026-07-04 |
| pattern-measure-first | Profile before optimizing; metric-honesty rule. Shared: Addy + CE + gstack (gstack-benchmark baselines before/after). | 2026-07-05 |
| pattern-trunk-based-development | Short-lived branches, atomic commits, always-releasable trunk. Shared: Addy + CE + gstack + Superpowers (Superpowers: short branch → merge/PR decision menu with worktree cleanup). | 2026-07-17 |
| pattern-shift-left | Move quality gates earlier; faster is safer (Addy). | 2026-07-04 |
| pattern-feature-flags | Decouple deploy from release; staged rollout; instant rollback (Addy). | 2026-07-04 |
| pattern-parallel-persona-review | Concurrent specialist/lens review fan-out, then merge. Shared: Addy + BMAD + CE + gstack (gstack’s plan-review panel + smart routing). | 2026-07-05 |
| pattern-persona-agents | A distinct named expert persona per SDLC role + Party-Mode roundtables. Shared: BMAD (signature) + gstack (CEO/eng/designer/QA/CSO/SRE specialists). | 2026-07-05 |
| pattern-scale-adaptive-planning | Size the ceremony to the work — Quick Flow → BMad Method → Enterprise / Levels 0-4; just-in-time design. Shared: BMAD (signature) + gstack + nano-spec + Agent OS (nano-spec + Agent OS pick a deliberately-light fixed point on the ceremony spectrum). | 2026-08-05 |
| pattern-knowledge-compounding | Each unit of work leaves reusable, (ideally machine-consumable) lessons future work auto-reads, so the lifecycle compounds. Shared: Compound Engineering + BMAD + gstack + Superpowers + Agent OS (gstack + Superpowers add capability-compounding; Agent OS compounds standards via profile-sync). The technique behind stage-learn; CE’s signature; now also an infra-layer capability — warren’s .mulch/ bakes it into the runtime. | 2026-08-05 |
| pattern-autonomous-loop | Chain the full pipeline hands-off, self-correcting to a machine-checkable success gate. Shared: CE (/lfg, ce-dogfood) + gstack (qa, ios-fix, canary); the execution-layer home for AFK agents — sandcastle + warren. | 2026-07-26 |
| pattern-worktree-isolation | Run each unit of work in a dedicated git worktree so parallel/autonomous work never corrupts the trunk. Shared: CE + Superpowers (both make it a first-class skill; Superpowers adds native-tool-first + clean-baseline check); the filesystem counterpart to fresh-context subagents; infra-side now provided by sandcastle (worktree/branch) + warren (bwrap/pod). | 2026-07-26 |
| pattern-edit-guardrails | Gate the agent’s mutations: confirm destructive commands + hard-lock edits to a directory (gstack careful/freeze/guard; investigate auto-freeze). gstack’s signature; the complement to worktree-isolation. | 2026-07-05 |
| pattern-cross-model-review | An independent second opinion from a different model/vendor; overlap = high-confidence, unique = blind-spot catch. Shared: gstack (/codex) + Compound Engineering (ce-code-review). Agreement is signal, not a mandate. | 2026-07-05 |
harness
The agent-program layer — the harness that loads a framework’s skills/commands and drives the model’s tool-call loop (Claude Code, pi, OpenCode, …). Neither a framework (ships no methodology) nor a runtime (doesn’t orchestrate); the pivot both other layers are defined against — frameworks runs_on: it, runtimes runs: it — connecting to the ontology through the execution primitives it enables: as patterns. See the harness layer overview + capability matrix.
| Article | Summary | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| claude-code | Anthropic’s Claude Code — the official agentic coding harness and the wiki’s reference terminal harness. Ships execution primitives, not methodology: tool-call loop, first-class sub-agents (Agent/Task tool, fresh context), skills (SKILL.md + auto-trigger), MCP, hooks, permission/plan modes, CLAUDE.md/memory + compaction, plus terminal/desktop/web/IDE surfaces and the Agent SDK. Anthropic models only. The node both other layers were defined against: all 12 frameworks runs_on: it; both runtimes (sandcastle, warren) runs: it. Enables pattern-fresh-context-subagents + pattern-edit-guardrails + pattern-session-handoff + pattern-context-engineering. | 2026-07-31 |
| opencode | Anomaly’s (ex-SST) opencode — open-source (MIT), model-agnostic terminal harness (Claude/GPT/Gemini/… + OpenCode Zen). Batteries-included like Claude Code — first-class sub-agents (build/plan/explore/scout), MCP, a native plugin+hook system, plan/build modes, permissions — across TUI/desktop/IDE. Officially supported by 6 frameworks; spawned by sandcastle. Enables the same four patterns as Claude Code. The open, model-agnostic pole. | 2026-07-31 |
| pi | Zechner/Earendil’s pi — open-source (MIT), minimal-core terminal harness: 4 built-in tools (read/write/edit/bash), with sub-agents, MCP, permissions, and plan mode deliberately excluded from core → TypeScript extensions. Model-agnostic, terminal-only. Named by compound-engineering + superpowers; spawned by sandcastle + warren. Enables only pattern-session-handoff + pattern-context-engineering (omits sub-agents + guardrails — the sharpest cross-harness contrast). The minimalist pole. | 2026-07-31 |
| factory-droid | Factory.ai’s Droid — proprietary terminal harness with a Claude-Code-shaped primitive set over the AGENTS.md standard: first-class Custom Droids (fresh context + own session + per-droid model), skills, 40+ MCP servers, hooks, plugins, and autonomy levels (off/low/medium/high). Its signatures are multi-model routing (Anthropic/OpenAI/Google/open-weight, mid-session swap, complexity-tiered, BYOK, free Droid Core) and Missions multi-agent orchestration; runs TUI, headless droid exec (CI), IDE, web. Named by compound-engineering + gstack + superpowers. Enables the same four patterns as Claude Code. The model-routing pole. | 2026-08-02 |
runtime
The execution layer — harness-agnostic substrates that decide where and how agents run (sandbox isolation, parallelism, AFK autonomy, steering, persistence), as opposed to the process layer’s what. A runtime performs no SDLC stage; it connects to the ontology through the harnesses it runs: and the patterns it enables:. See the runtime layer overview + orchestration matrix.
| Article | Summary | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| sandcastle | Matt Pocock’s Sandcastle (@ai-hero/sandcastle, MIT) — a TypeScript library for orchestrating AI coding agents in isolated sandboxes: run() sandboxes an agent with a branch strategy (head / merge-to-head / branch) and merges the commits back. Provider-agnostic (Docker/Podman/Vercel/none; Claude Code/Codex/pi/Cursor/OpenCode/Copilot). First-class AFK (maxIterations + completionSignal + idle/completion timeouts), warm reusable sandboxes with exec-gating, session resume/fork, schema-validated structured output. The library pole of the runtime layer; enables pattern-worktree-isolation + pattern-autonomous-loop + pattern-wave-parallelism + pattern-session-handoff. | 2026-07-26 |
| warren | Jaymin West’s Warren (os-eco, MIT, v0.9.10) — “Coolify for coding agents”: a self-hostable control plane for ephemeral agents. Dispatch (UI/CLI/API) → sandbox (bwrap workspace or k8s pod) → steer mid-run → validate → push branch → auto-PR → reap. Harness-agnostic (claude-code/sapling/pi). Opt-in os-eco power features: .mulch/ persistent cross-run memory, .seeds/ issue queue, canopy versioned prompts, plot coordination. The platform pole; uniquely enables pattern-knowledge-compounding in the runtime, plus pattern-autonomous-loop + pattern-worktree-isolation + pattern-session-handoff. | 2026-07-26 |
topic
Curated cross-cutting overlays (Maps of Content) — authored, top-down reference pages that link out to specifics across the ontology. Not ontology nodes: they store no edges and change no synthesis. See CONVENTIONS §The topic layer.
| Article | Summary | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| topic-harness-engineering | Steering agents toward project conventions, and refining it over time — Martin Fowler’s Harness Engineering frame (guides/feedforward + sensors/feedback, closed by a steering loop; computational vs inferential controls; keep quality left), threaded through the wiki’s existing pages. Reconciles Fowler’s broad “harness” with this wiki’s harness node; the home for the agent-os guide layer and the “as models improve” analysis. | 2026-08-05 |