
get-shit-done-redux
Getting Shit Done, the Aftermath
The Lens
By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.
Updated Oct 2026
GSD Core keeps AI coding assistants reliable over long sessions. The problem it targets is context rot, the quality drop that happens as an agent fills its context window and starts forgetting what it was doing. It runs the heavy research, planning and execution in fresh subagents so your main session stays lean. It's the community continuation of the original Get Shit Done project, MIT licensed and free.
Install is one command: npx @opengsd/gsd-core@latest. It works with Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Antigravity CLI, Kimi CLI and others. The workflow is a new-project command plus a five-step loop: discuss, plan, execute in parallel waves, verify, ship. Releases land every week or two, with a migration path off the deprecated original package.
Solo developers who run long agent sessions and watch quality degrade get the most out of this. Small teams adopting a shared agent workflow can standardize on the same loop. It's free at every scale; the cost is learning the discipline it imposes, which is the point.
The catch: it's methodology wrapped in tooling and only helps if you commit to the loop. Bolt it onto a chaotic workflow and you get chaos with extra steps. A hosted gsd-cloud is announced as coming soon with no pricing yet, so watch whether the free core stays the whole product.
Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid
fully freeFree: Everything. MIT licensed, installed with npx @opengsd/gsd-core@latest.
Self-hosted: Not applicable in the usual sense. It's a command system layered onto your existing AI coding assistant, running locally.
Paid: None today. You pay only for your assistant's usage. A hosted gsd-cloud for cross-device project state and team visibility is announced as coming soon, with no tiers or prices published.
Completely free under MIT. The only cost is the usage of whatever AI assistant you run it with.
What to do by team size
- Solo
- free
- Small team
- free; standardize the loop across the team
- Medium team
- free
- Large team
- free; pin a version given the release pace
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