GSD Capture

by open-gsd

GSD Capture 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 Capture

Copy GSD Capture 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-capture ~/.claude/skills/gsd-capture

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

What GSD Capture does

GSD Capture routes ideas, tasks, notes, and seeds to the correct GSD planning destination, such as todos, backlog, notes, or seed files. Use it when capturing an item during Claude Code sessions to avoid deciding where it should live.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Mode routing:

default (no flag): Capture as a structured todo for later work → add-todo workflow
--note: Zero-friction idea capture (append/list/promote) → note workflow
--backlog: Add an idea to the backlog parking lot (999.x numbering) → add-backlog workflow
--seed: Capture a forward-looking idea with trigger conditions → plant-seed workflow
--list: List pending todos and select one to work on → check-todos workflow
--list-seeds: List/audit captured seeds (optional status filter) → list-seeds workflow

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

Frequently asked about GSD Capture

What else does open-gsd publish alongside GSD Capture?
GSD Capture 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 Capture 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 Capture compare to other Automation skills?
GSD Capture ranks #186 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 Capture against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.