STEP 12 ran `gsd init` AFTER FINISH, creating ROADMAP.md + .gsd/ in the working
tree once the merge had already integrated committed history only — so the
artifacts stranded outside the merge/PR (BLK-011, 3rd post-FINISH artifact after
memory + docs).
Resolved by REMOVAL, not by plumbing a commit: STEP 12 speculatively bootstrapped
a heavy multi-session engine (state machine / crash recovery / cost tracking /
parallel workers) that is opt-in and rarely used. Deleting the producer means the
orphan is never created — a negative diff beats building a gsd-commit helper for an
artifact nobody commits to using.
Deliberate GSD use is untouched: initializable on-demand (`/onboard add gsd`, or
`gsd init` in a terminal), still recommended by plugin-advisor, still read by
/status. init-project is now an 11-step pipeline.
Coherence sweep (the "test" for a removal): zero dangling STEP-12 refs — header
12->11-step, the STEP 10c note, and 4 USAGE.md worked-example references all updated
to on-demand init.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01C6bUdvHnajCNzgVQefZowj
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