GSD Health

by open-gsd

GSD Health is an AI Engineering 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

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claude-codecontext-engineeringmeta-promptingspec-driven-development

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Install GSD Health

Copy GSD Health 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-health ~/.claude/skills/gsd-health

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

What GSD Health does

GSD Health validates .planning/ directory integrity and reports actionable issues. Use --repair to fix problems and --context to check the current session's context utilization.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

--context runs an orthogonal check: the running session's context utilization. The workflow asks for the model's tokensUsed + contextWindow, calls gsd-tools query validate.context, and renders one of three states:

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

Commands GSD Health provides

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

/gsd-thread

Frequently asked about GSD Health

What else does open-gsd publish alongside GSD Health?
GSD Health 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 Health 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 Health compare to other AI Engineering skills?
GSD Health ranks #413 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 Health against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.