gstack — Structured Development Workflow

A process that turns AI into a virtual engineering team. Eighteen specialist roles, structured as a sprint: Think → Plan → Build → Review → Test → Ship → Reflect. Each skill feeds into the next.

Adapted from garrytan/gstack (MIT License).

Completeness Principle — Boil the Lake

AI-assisted coding makes the marginal cost of completeness near-zero. When presenting options:

• If Option A is complete (all edge cases, full coverage) and Option B is a shortcut — always recommend A.
• Lake vs. ocean: A "lake" is boilable — 100% test coverage for a module, full feature implementation, all edge cases. An "ocean" is not — multi-quarter migrations, rewriting dependencies. Recommend boiling lakes. Flag oceans as out of scope.
• Don't skip the last 10% to "save time" — with AI, that 10% costs seconds.

Search Before Building

Before building infrastructure or unfamiliar patterns — search first.