v1.39.0-rc.5 Release Notes

Pre-release candidate. Published to npm under the next tag.

bash

npx get-shit-done-cc@next

What's in this release

All fixes from rc.4, plus:

Fixed

Codex hooks migrator correctness hardening (#2809)

Five edge-cases in the [[hooks.<Event>]] → [[hooks.<Event>.hooks]] two-level nested schema migration path, discovered across five rounds of code review:

Finding	Fix
`parseHooksBody` used a bare regex (`/^([\w.]+)\s*=/`) that silently dropped hyphenated keys such as `status-message` and any quoted TOML key	Replaced with `parseTomlKey()`, the existing full TOML key parser
`buildNestedBlock` unconditionally emitted `[[hooks.TYPE.hooks]]` even when no handler fields were present, producing an entry with `type = "command"` but no `command`	Added guard: matcher-only / handler-field-free sections emit only the event-entry block
`legacyMapSections` filter used `section.path.startsWith('hooks.')` without checking the segment count, so three-segment tables like `[hooks.SessionStart.hooks]` were misclassified as event entries and re-emitted as bogus nested events	Now uses `section.segments.length === 2` (same fix previously applied to `staleNamespacedAotSections`)
No regression test for quoted event names containing dots — `[[hooks."before.tool"]]` has a 2-segment path but 3 dot-parts, and a `split('.')` check would misclassify it	Regression test added; quoted-dot names are correctly treated as a single two-segment namespace
Handler command path assertion in install tests used a regex (`/gsd-check-update\.js/`) rather than the exact absolute path	Strengthened to `assert.strictEqual` with `path.join(codexHome, 'hooks', 'gsd-check-update.js')`

What was in rc.4

Added

--minimal install flag (alias --core-only) (#2762)

Writes only the six core skills needed to run the main workflow loop: new-project, discuss-phase, plan-phase, execute-phase, help, update. No gsd-* subagents are installed.

Mode	Cold-start system-prompt overhead
full (default)	~12k tokens
minimal	~700 tokens

Useful for local LLMs with 32K–128K context windows. Sonnet 4.6 / Opus 4.7 users don't need it — the full surface is the right default for cloud models.

The install manifest records mode: "minimal" | "full". Run gsd update without --minimal at any time to expand to the full skill set.

Fixed (rc.4)

Codex install no longer corrupts ~/.codex/config.toml (#2760)

The installer now:

Strips legacy [agents] (single-bracket) and [[agents]] (sequence) blocks unconditionally — both are invalid in the current Codex TOML schema, regardless of whether a GSD marker is present.
Emits the GSD-managed hook in the shape the user's config already uses: [[hooks.<Event>]] namespaced AoT if any existing hook uses that form, otherwise top-level [[hooks]].
Migrates any legacy [hooks.<Event>] (map format) to [[hooks.<Event>]] (array format) during write.
Writes atomically via a temp file + renameSync — no partial writes.
Validates the post-write bytes with a strict TOML parser that rejects duplicate keys, repeated table headers, trailing bytes after values, and unsupported value types.
On any pre-write or write-time failure, restores the pre-install snapshot and aborts with a clear error instead of warn-and-continue.

Installing the pre-release

bash

# npm
npm install -g get-shit-done-cc@next

# npx (one-shot)
npx get-shit-done-cc@next

To pin to this exact RC:

bash

npm install -g [email protected]

What's next

Run rc again on the release branch to publish rc.6 if further fixes land before finalization.
Run finalize on the release workflow to promote 1.39.0 to latest when the RC is stable.