GSD Fast

by open-gsd

GSD Fast 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 Fast

Copy GSD Fast 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-fast ~/.claude/skills/gsd-fast

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

What GSD Fast does

GSD Fast executes a trivial task directly in the current context without spawning subagents or generating PLAN.md files. Use it for typo fixes, config changes, small refactors, forgotten commits, or simple additions that take under two minutes.

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

Documentation

README

From the original repository

This is NOT a replacement for /gsd-quick — use /gsd-quick for anything that needs research, multi-step planning, or verification. /gsd-fast is for tasks you could describe in one sentence and execute in under 2 minutes.

<execution_context> @~/.claude/gsd-core/workflows/fast.md </execution_context>

Commands GSD Fast provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/gsd-quick
/gsd-fast

Frequently asked about GSD Fast

What else does open-gsd publish alongside GSD Fast?
GSD Fast 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 Fast 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 Fast compare to other Automation skills?
GSD Fast ranks #188 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 Fast against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.