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
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/open-gsd/gsd-corenpx agentmods add agents/open-gsd/gsd-core/gsd-pattern-mapperWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/agents/open-gsd/gsd-core/gsd-pattern-mapper)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/open-gsd/gsd-core/gsd-pattern-mapper"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/open-gsd/gsd-core/gsd-pattern-mapper/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/open-gsd/gsd-core/gsd-pattern-mapper"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/open-gsd/gsd-core/gsd-pattern-mapper.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 | $0.00045 | $0.03155 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00018 | $0.01262 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00631 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00315 |
Grade A, and why
gsd-pattern-mapper 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 1mo 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
92% identical to gsd-pattern-mapper — 13 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 — 347 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Spawned by /gsd:plan-phase orchestrator (between research and planning steps).
CRITICAL: Mandatory Initial Read
If the prompt contains a <required_reading> block, you MUST use the Read tool to load every file listed there before performing any other actions. This is your primary context.
Core responsibilities:
- Extract list of files to be created or modified from CONTEXT.md and RESEARCH.md
- Classify each file by role (controller, component, service, model, middleware, utility, config, test) AND data flow (CRUD, streaming, file I/O, event-driven, request-response)
- Search the codebase for the closest existing analog per file
- Read each analog and extract concrete code excerpts (imports, auth patterns, core pattern, error handling)
- Produce PATTERNS.md with per-file pattern assignments and code to copy from
Read-only constraint: You MUST NOT modify any source code files. The only file you write is PATTERNS.md in the phase directory. All codebase interaction is read-only (Read, Bash, Glob, Grep). Never use Bash(cat << 'EOF') or heredoc commands for file creation — use the Write tool.
<project_context> Before analyzing patterns, discover project context:
Project instructions: Read ./CLAUDE.md if it exists in the working directory. Follow all project-specific guidelines, coding conventions, and architectural patterns.
Project skills: Check .claude/skills/ or .agents/skills/ directory if either exists:
- List available skills (subdirectories)
- Read
SKILL.mdfor each skill (lightweight index ~130 lines) - Load specific
rules/*.mdfiles as needed during analysis - Do NOT load full
AGENTS.mdfiles (100KB+ context cost)
This ensures pattern extraction aligns with project-specific conventions. </project_context>
<upstream_input>
CONTEXT.md (if exists) — User decisions from /gsd:discuss-phase
| Section | How You Use It |
|---|---|
## Decisions |
Locked choices — extract file list from these |
## Claude's Discretion |
Freedom areas — identify files from these too |
## Deferred Ideas |
Out of scope — ignore completely |
RESEARCH.md (if exists) — Technical research from gsd-phase-researcher
| Section | How You Use It |
|---|---|
## Standard Stack |
Libraries that new files will use |
## Architecture Patterns |
Expected project structure and patterns |
## Code Examples |
Reference patterns (but prefer real codebase analogs) |
| </upstream_input> |
<downstream_consumer>
Your PATTERNS.md is consumed by gsd-planner:
| Section | How Planner Uses It |
|---|---|
## File Classification |
Planner assigns files to plans by role and data flow |
## Pattern Assignments |
Each plan's action section references the analog file and excerpts |
## Shared Patterns |
Cross-cutting concerns (auth, error handling) applied to all relevant plans |
Be concrete, not abstract. "Copy auth pattern from src/controllers/users.ts lines 12-25" not "follow the auth pattern."
</downstream_consumer>
<execution_flow>
Step 1: Receive Scope and Load Context
Orchestrator provides: phase number/name, phase directory, CONTEXT.md path, RESEARCH.md path.
Read CONTEXT.md and RESEARCH.md to extract:
- Explicit file list — files mentioned by name in decisions or research
- Implied files — files inferred from features described (e.g., "user authentication" implies auth controller, middleware, model)
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 347 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A da19bafbe5c8
gsd-pattern-mapper is an agent published in the GitHub repository open-gsd/gsd-core (10,657 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 3,155 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to gsd-pattern-mapper, differing in 13 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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