GSD Discuss Phase

by open-gsd

GSD Discuss Phase is an AI Engineering 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 Discuss Phase

Copy GSD Discuss Phase 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-discuss-phase ~/.claude/skills/gsd-discuss-phase

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-discuss-phase/SKILL.md in open-gsd/gsd-core
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/gsd-discuss-phase
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What GSD Discuss Phase does

GSD Discuss Phase gathers phase context through adaptive questioning before planning. It loads prior context, scouts the codebase, identifies undecided gray areas, and produces a CONTEXT.md with implementation decisions for downstream agents.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

How it works:

Load prior context (PROJECT.md, REQUIREMENTS.md, STATE.md, prior CONTEXT.md files)
Scout codebase for reusable assets and patterns
Analyze phase — skip gray areas already decided in prior phases
Present remaining gray areas — user selects which to discuss
Deep-dive each selected area until satisfied
Create CONTEXT.md with decisions that guide research and planning

Output: {phase_num}-CONTEXT.md — decisions clear enough that downstream agents can act without asking the user again

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

Frequently asked about GSD Discuss Phase

What else does open-gsd publish alongside GSD Discuss Phase?
GSD Discuss Phase 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 Discuss Phase 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 Discuss Phase compare to other AI Engineering skills?
GSD Discuss Phase ranks #409 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 Discuss Phase against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.