GSD Forensics

by open-gsd

GSD Forensics is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by open-gsd in gsd-core.

8.3K stars573 forkson open-gsd/gsd-coreAdded 2026/08/15+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/15

View source on GitHub Download repo ZIP

claude-codecontext-engineeringmeta-promptingspec-driven-development

Install in seconds

Install GSD Forensics

Copy GSD Forensics 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-forensics ~/.claude/skills/gsd-forensics

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-forensics/SKILL.md in open-gsd/gsd-core
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/gsd-forensics
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What GSD Forensics does

GSD Forensics investigates what went wrong during a GSD workflow execution by analyzing git history, planning artifacts, and file system state to detect anomalies and generate a structured diagnostic report. Use it after a failed or stuck workflow to determine root cause and take corrective action.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Purpose: Diagnose failed or stuck workflows so the user can understand root cause and take corrective action. Output: Forensic report saved to .planning/forensics/, presented inline, with optional issue creation.

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

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

Frequently asked about GSD Forensics

What else does open-gsd publish alongside GSD Forensics?
GSD Forensics 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 Forensics 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 Forensics compare to other Quality skills?
GSD Forensics ranks #219 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. 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 Forensics against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.