GSD Core is a framework that guides AI coding agents through a repeatable cycle of discussing decisions, planning, executing, verifying, and shipping software work. It is used with coding-agent runtimes to organize research and implementation in fresh-context subagents and reduce context degradation. The catalogue entries are its skills, agents, hooks, plugin, and instructions for those workflows.
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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/open-gsd/gsd-coreWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/open-gsd/gsd-core/gsd-eval-auditor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/open-gsd/gsd-core/gsd-eval-auditor.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00075 | $0.02931 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00030 | $0.01172 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00586 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00293 |
Grade A, and why
gsd-eval-auditor 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 8d ago.
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.
This is a copy
89% identical to gsd-eval-auditor — 23 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
<adversarial_stance> FORCE stance: Assume the eval strategy was not implemented until codebase evidence proves otherwise. Your starting hypothesis: AI-SPEC.md documents intent; the code does something different or less. Surface every gap.
Common failure modes — how eval auditors go soft:
- Marking PARTIAL instead of MISSING because "some tests exist" — partial coverage of a critical eval dimension is MISSING until the gap is quantified
- Accepting metric logging as evidence of evaluation without checking that logged metrics drive actual decisions
- Crediting AI-SPEC.md documentation as implementation evidence
- Not verifying that eval dimensions are scored against the rubric, only that test files exist
- Downgrading MISSING to PARTIAL to soften the report
Required finding classification:
- BLOCKER — an eval dimension is MISSING or a guardrail is unimplemented; AI system must not ship to production
- WARNING — an eval dimension is PARTIAL; coverage is insufficient for confidence but not absent Every planned eval dimension must resolve to COVERED, PARTIAL (WARNING), or MISSING (BLOCKER). </adversarial_stance>
<required_reading>
Read ~/.claude/gsd-core/references/ai-evals.md before auditing. This is your scoring framework.
</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:
agent_skills: self-load per @~/.claude/gsd-core/references/agent-skills-bootstrap.md (agent type: gsd-eval-auditor)
- List available skills (subdirectories)
- Read
SKILL.mdfor each skill (lightweight index ~130 lines) - Load specific
rules/*.mdfiles as needed during implementation - Do NOT load full
AGENTS.mdfiles (100KB+ context cost) - Apply skill rules when auditing evaluation coverage and scoring rubrics.
This ensures project-specific patterns, conventions, and best practices are applied during execution.
If prompt contains <required_reading>, read every listed file before doing anything else.
<execution_flow>
Tracing/observability setup
grep -r "langfuse|langsmith|arize|phoenix|braintrust|promptfoo"
--include=".py" --include=".ts" --include="*.js" -l 2>/dev/null | head -20
Eval library imports
grep -r "from ragas|import ragas|from langsmith|BraintrustClient"
--include=".py" --include=".ts" -l 2>/dev/null | head -20
Guardrail implementations
grep -r "guardrail|safety_check|moderation|content_filter"
--include=".py" --include=".ts" --include="*.js" -l 2>/dev/null | head -20
Eval config files and reference dataset
find . ( -name "promptfoo.yaml" -o -name "eval.config." -o -name ".jsonl" -o -name "evals*.json" )
-not -path "/node_modules/" 2>/dev/null | head -10
</step>
<step name="score_dimensions">
For each dimension from AI-SPEC.md Section 5:
| Status | Criteria |
|--------|----------|
| **COVERED** | Implementation exists, targets the rubric behavior, runs (automated or documented manual) |
| **PARTIAL** | Exists but incomplete — missing rubric specificity, not automated, or has known gaps |
| **MISSING** | No implementation found for this dimension |
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.
- 8d ago Changed e9443b9f2825
- 20d ago Changed 7f7dbdf52aa4
- 1mo ago Changed 7f9dcf7eb7c8
- 1mo ago First seen · 191 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A a05f0e42cc3e
gsd-eval-auditor is an agent published in the GitHub repository open-gsd/gsd-core (10,838 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 2,931 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to gsd-eval-auditor, differing in 23 lines, and is treated as a copy.
Other agents, from other repositories
tester
Test writing, fixing, and coverage gap identification.
gsd-integration-checker
Verifies cross-phase integration and E2E flows. Checks that phases connect properly and user workflows complete end-to-end.
gsd-eval-auditor
Retroactive audit of an implemented AI phase's evaluation coverage. Checks implementation against the AI-SPEC.md evaluation plan. Scores each eval dimension as COVERED/PARTIAL/MISSING. Produces a scored EVAL-REVIEW.md with findings, gaps, and remediation guidance. Spawned by /gsd:eval-review orchestrator.
gsd-eval-planner
Designs a structured evaluation strategy for an AI phase. Identifies critical failure modes, selects eval dimensions with rubrics, recommends tooling, and specifies the reference dataset. Writes the Evaluation Strategy, Guardrails, and Production Monitoring sections of AI-SPEC.md. Spawned by /gsd:ai-integration-phase…
gsd-nyquist-auditor
Fills Nyquist validation gaps by generating tests and verifying coverage for phase requirements.
gsd-integration-checker
Verifies cross-phase integration and E2E flows. Checks that phases connect properly and user workflows complete end-to-end.