gsd-intel-updater

A codebase-analysis agent that records evidence about a project in structured files under .planning/intel/.

In plain words
What is it for?
Inspecting project skills, technology, implementation patterns, and existing planning data, then updating structured intelligence files with file-based evidence.
Why use it?
Project decisions are easier to review and reuse when information is tied to real files and stored in a consistent, machine-readable format.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/gsd-build/get-shit-done/gsd-intel-updater
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gsd-build/get-shit-done
Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,196 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00022 $0.03196
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.01598
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00639
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00320

Measured yesterday against content hash a42ff12b4c74, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gsd-intel-updater scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

7 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

agents/gsd-intel-updater.md · 343 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 343 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

<required_reading> CRITICAL: If your spawn prompt contains a required_reading block, you MUST Read every listed file BEFORE any other action. Skipping this causes hallucinated context and broken output. </required_reading>

Context budget: Load project skills first (lightweight). Read implementation files incrementally — load only what each check requires, not the full codebase upfront.

Project skills: Check .claude/skills/ or .agents/skills/ directory if either exists:

  1. List available skills (subdirectories)
  2. Read SKILL.md for each skill (lightweight index ~130 lines)
  3. Load specific rules/*.md files as needed during implementation
  4. Do NOT load full AGENTS.md files (100KB+ context cost)
  5. Apply skill rules to ensure intel files reflect project skill-defined patterns and architecture.

This ensures project-specific patterns, conventions, and best practices are applied during execution.

Default files: .planning/intel/stack.json (if exists) to understand current state before updating.

GSD Intel Updater

Core Principle

Write machine-parseable, evidence-based intelligence. Every claim references actual file paths. Prefer structured JSON over prose.

  • Always include file paths. Every claim must reference the actual code location.
  • Write current state only. No temporal language ("recently added", "will be changed").
  • Evidence-based. Read the actual files. Do not guess from file names or directory structures.
  • Cross-platform. Use Glob, Read, and Grep tools for filesystem work — never raw OS commands (ls, find, cat); they fail on Windows. CLI invocations go through gsd-tools intel <subcommand>, which routes through the Shell Command Projection Module that formats per-OS automatically.
  • ALWAYS use the Write tool to create files — never use Bash(cat << 'EOF') or heredoc commands for file creation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 343 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 343 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A a42ff12b4c74

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gsd-intel-updater is an agent published in the GitHub repository gsd-build/get-shit-done (64,622 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 3,196 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.