[BUG] GDS module: workflow-status/ directory referenced by 14 files but not included in installation

[ramagepe]

Description

The GDS module references _bmad/gds/workflows/workflow-status/ (and its internal files init/workflow.yaml, project-levels.yaml) across 14 workflow files, but this directory is not included in the installation. Fresh installs and reinstalls both produce the same result.

The issue is in the shared workflow files under _bmad/gds/workflows/, not in the IDE-specific skill wrappers (.claude/skills/ and .opencode/skills/ are clean).

Impact

Every GDS workflow that has an init or completion step attempts to check/update gds-workflow-status.yaml via this missing component. Workflows fall back to standalone mode, losing cross-workflow progress tracking.

Affected workflows (21 references across 14 files):

Workflow	Files referencing it
brainstorm-game	step-01-init.md, step-04-complete.md
game-brief	step-01-init.md
gdd	step-01-init.md, step-14-complete.md, checklist.md
narrative	step-01-init.md, step-11-complete.md
game-architecture	step-09-complete.md
create-prd	step-01-init.md
create-ux-design	step-01-init.md
document-project	instructions.md (5 refs)
quick-dev	workflow.md, step-01-mode-detection.md

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install BMAD with GDS module (npx bmad-method)
2. Check for _bmad/gds/workflows/workflow-status/ — does not exist
3. Run any GDS workflow (e.g. bmad-gds-brainstorm-game) — init step offers to run workflow-init which doesn't exist

Expected

_bmad/gds/workflows/workflow-status/ should be included in the GDS module installation with at least init/workflow.yaml and project-levels.yaml.

Environment

• BMAD core v6.1.0
• GDS module v0.2.1 (bmad-game-dev-studio)
• Agent CLIs: opencode, claude-code
• Platform: Linux

[coderabbitai]

🔗 Related PRs

#1151 - feat(bmgd): comprehensive BMGD module upgrade [merged]
#1368 - Fix: Correct workflow_path in bmad-quick-flow/quick-spec steps [merged]
#1709 - fix: correct step file path in check-implementation-readiness workflow [merged]
#1839 - fix: add missing skill manifests for research and PRD workflows [merged]
#1934 - refactor(bmm): convert create-ux-design workflow to native skill [merged]

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[ramagepe]

Additional finding: This component has never existed in any version of the GDS module.

Checked all 13 published tags (v0.1.0 through v0.2.1), main branch, and the BMAD-METHOD core repo — workflow-status/ is not present in any of them. The references were written into the workflow files but the directory was never implemented or shipped.

Source: bmad-code-org/bmad-module-game-dev-studio full tree search across all tags and branches.

[bmadcode]

Closing — GDS now lives in its own repo at https://github.com/bmad-code-org/bmad-module-game-dev-studio. Please refile there if the missing workflow-status/ directory issue still reproduces.