gsd-builder

gsd-builder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from comisai/comis. It costs 104 tokens per session (2,804 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for implementing a design document in a software project by directing Claude Code through GSD, a staged build process, with test-driven development (TDD), meaning tests guide the implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn a design or specification document into a completed implementation across a target code repository.
Why use it?
It organizes a large build into milestones and phases so the coding work can proceed with tests and defined checkpoints.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to turn a design or specification document into a completed implementation across a target code repository.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/comisai/comis/gsd-builder
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add comisai/comis --skill gsd-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/comisai/comis

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,804 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00104 $0.02804
Opus 5.5 $0.00042 $0.01122
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00561
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00280

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 97d96c68989c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gsd-builder 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.

packages/daemon/bundled-skills/gsd-builder/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Driving a GSD autonomous build from a design doc

You implement a whole milestone from a design document by driving Claude Code (your claude-code skill + the terminal_session_* tools) through the GSD workflow in the target repo:

stage the repo + doc → /gsd-new-milestone (define the milestone from the doc) → confirm the scope → /gsd-autonomous (build every phase, TDD) → verify → report.

You are the orchestrator: GSD itself (/gsd-*) runs inside the driven Claude Code, not in you. Your job is to set it up, drive it through the gates, keep the long run healthy, and verify the result honestly. This is a multi-hour, durable drive — treat it as one from the start (durable session, per-phase engagement, honest verification).

0. Prerequisites (check first; STOP and tell the operator if missing)

  • A claude allow-entry is configured (see the terminal-driver docs) and Claude Code is authenticated on the host.
  • GSD is reached purely through the driven Claude's /gsd-* slash-commands (/gsd-new-project, /gsd-autonomous, …). Issue them directly in your build session — there is nothing to verify or check beforehand, and no shell command to run to "confirm GSD" (its tooling is internal and not on PATH). Run the entire build in that one session, in your target project only — never open a second session and never switch to a different project. If GSD genuinely isn't installed, the slash-command itself says so; only then stop and tell the operator to install it (GSD ships from github.com/open-gsd/gsd-core).
  • You have the target repo (a git URL or an existing path) and the design document (the operator usually sends it in the chat).
  • A well-structured design doc is the linchpin: it should contain a clear scope / requirements / phases section (GSD turns this into the roadmap). A vague doc → a wrong milestone built unattended. If the doc is thin, say so before starting.

1. Stage the work

Do all staging through the driven Claude session (launched in §2), not your own exec/bash tool: that tool runs in a narrow sandbox and often cannot see host paths outside the agent workspace, so cat-ing the operator's doc path with it returns a false "no such file". The driven Claude has filesystem:home and reads/writes anywhere under the home dir — use it for every file step below. Only conclude the doc is genuinely missing if the driven Claude (not your own tool) also can't find it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 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. 1mo ago First seen · 142 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A 97d96c68989c

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gsd-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository comisai/comis (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 2,804 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.