GSD Autonomous

by open-gsd

GSD Autonomous is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by open-gsd in gsd-core.

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claude-codecontext-engineeringmeta-promptingspec-driven-development

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Install GSD Autonomous

Copy GSD Autonomous into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/open-gsd/gsd-core/tree/next/skills/gsd-autonomous ~/.claude/skills/gsd-autonomous

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/open-gsd/gsd-core.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/gsd-autonomous/SKILL.md in open-gsd/gsd-core
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/gsd-autonomous
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What GSD Autonomous does

GSD Autonomous runs all remaining milestone phases autonomously, moving through discuss, plan, and execute for each phase. Use it to advance a project through its roadmap without manually invoking each phase.

GSD Autonomous is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. GSD Autonomous comes from a repository tagged claude-code, context-engineering, meta-prompting and spec-driven-development.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Uses ROADMAP.md phase discovery and Skill() flat invocations for each phase command. After all phases complete: milestone audit → complete → cleanup.

Creates/Updates:

.planning/STATE.md — updated after each phase
.planning/ROADMAP.md — progress updated after each phase
Phase artifacts — CONTEXT.md, PLANs, SUMMARYs per phase

After: Milestone is complete and cleaned up.

<execution_context> @~~/.claude/gsd-core/workflows/autonomous.md @~~/.claude/gsd-core/references/ui-brand.md </execution_context>

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about GSD Autonomous

What else does open-gsd publish alongside GSD Autonomous?
GSD Autonomous is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from open-gsd/gsd-core, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Integration Phase, Add Tests and Complete Milestone. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way GSD Autonomous does, and is maintained by open-gsd in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the open-gsd/gsd-core page.
How does GSD Autonomous compare to other Automation skills?
GSD Autonomous ranks #185 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of GSD Autonomous against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.