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* Implement context store root parity
* Clarify simplified model roadmap
* Add roadmap progress checklists
* Number roadmap work items
* Add --store root selection for normal commands
Implements the store-root-selection slice (1.2, with 2.1 pulled forward):
- Add a shared OpenSpec-root resolver (src/core/root-selection.ts) behind
new change, status, instructions, list, show, validate, and archive.
--store <id> resolves a registered context store to an ordinary OpenSpec
root; identity and root-health failures point to context-store doctor.
- Leftover workspace view state never wins root resolution for these
commands, and a no-root directory with registered stores errors with a
store-selection hint instead of scaffolding an implicit root.
- Selected-store runs print "Using OpenSpec root: <id> (<abs path>)" to
stderr and JSON successes carry an additive shared root block.
- --store-path is rejected deliberately with context-store register
guidance, including on show despite allowUnknownOption.
- new change is root selection only: initiative-link creation is removed,
--initiative and --areas reject before any writes, --goal stays ordinary
metadata. openspec set change is removed along with initiative-link.ts.
- archive gains --json: non-interactive, machine-readable diagnostics for
blocked paths, and no prose or blank lines on stdout.
- list gains minimal --specs --json support so specs listing participates
in the root reporting contract.
- context-store setup/register next steps show --store usage.
* Fix stream-purity and message bugs found in review
- archive --json: silence the REMOVED-deltas-on-new-spec warning from
buildUpdatedSpec so the JSON payload stays pure.
- Resolver: wrap registry reads so a corrupt registry surfaces as a
RootSelectionError; JSON mode now emits a machine-readable diagnostic
instead of a blank stdout line.
- archive --store (human): per-spec update lines use the absolute store
path, matching the cross-root absolute-paths contract.
- Noun-form spec show keeps its forward-slash relative not-found message
on all platforms; root-aware show reports the absolute path.
- Tests: archive --json purity for REMOVED-delta and spec-update-failure
paths, corrupt-registry JSON diagnostics, and running inside the
standalone store repo without --store.
* Validate all rebuilt specs before writing any
The archive spec-update phase validated and wrote each rebuilt spec in a
single loop, so a later validation failure could leave earlier specs
already modified while reporting "No files were changed". Split it into
two passes: validate every rebuilt spec first, then write only after all
pass. Regression test covers a two-spec change where one rebuilt spec
fails validation and asserts no target spec was created or modified.
* Mark beta context-store and workspace docs as transition history
Rewrites the opening sections of the old initiative and workspace
reimplementation artifacts as transition evidence and beta history, and
adds the direction-git-native-work transition note. Readers are pointed
to openspec/work/simplify-context-and-workspace-model/ for the active
direction.
* Record store-root-selection slice artifacts and roadmap progress
Adds the slice 1.2 spec, plan, and decision-review evidence, and updates
the roadmap: 1.2 is implemented and tested on this branch, with review
follow-up and merge remaining.
* Record store-lifecycle-proof slice artifacts and roadmap progress
Spec and plan for slice 1.3 (prove the standalone repo lifecycle end to
end), with two review rounds folded in. Adds slice 1.4 to the roadmap,
parks archive browsability as L11, and records the single-branch
workflow for the whole roadmap.
* Prove the standalone store lifecycle end to end
Implements slice 1.3 (store-lifecycle-proof):
- Setup defaults to Git with a pathspec-limited initial commit of exactly
the files it created, writes store.yaml before committing, anchors
empty directories with .gitkeep, preflights commit identity via git var
before creating anything, and requires an explicit --path (interactive
setup prompts with a visible user path).
- Doctor reports read-only Git facts (commits, uncommitted changes,
remote) and warns on commitless repos and clone-fragile directories.
- Register errors are terminal: one-checkout-per-id with the unregister
escape, registration-aware id-mismatch fix text, and an empty-clone
explanation on unhealthy roots.
- Selected-store hints carry --store, the root banner prints at
resolution time so post-resolution failures keep it, new change names
its next command, and status drops the workspace-era Planning home
line.
- Adds the two-checkout journey e2e test (machine A lifecycle, machine B
clone/register/continue) with fully isolated Git config and XDG state.
* Fix review findings in the store lifecycle slice
Two adversarial subagent reviews of the slice 1.3 implementation found
one spec violation and several correctness risks; all are fixed:
- Hints carry --store everywhere: validate/show non-interactive hints,
archive blocked-path fix texts, and status JSON nextSteps now thread
the selected store. Status JSON also drops the workspace-era
planningHome field.
- Reruns of an already-registered store no longer git-init it (the CLI
default is resolved against the registry via resolveSetupGitEnabled),
keeping reruns strict no-ops.
- Failed initial commits unstage setup's files so a user repo is not
left with a dirty index; once the commit lands, cleanup no longer
deletes the committed files; fresh-dir cleanup is non-recursive again
so it can never delete content setup did not create.
- Corrupt or fake .git dirs report Git facts as unknown instead of
commitless, avoiding misleading empty-clone advice.
- The sharing next-step line only prints for actual repositories.
- Journey test: Windows-safe path assertions, telemetry opt-out, machine
B now runs the full enumerated command set (instructions, validate),
asserts register creates no commits, covers the banner-on-failure and
store-carrying-hint contract, and doctor human output. Unit tests gain
isolated git config, register error-text coverage for both mismatch
branches, and a default-flags rerun no-op regression test.
Full suite: 93 files, 1729 tests, green.
* Keep validate and show hints inside the selected store
Follow-up review findings: the invalid-report next step pointed at the
deprecated cwd-based 'openspec change show <id>' and dropped --store; it
now names the supported top-level 'openspec show <id> --json
--deltas-only' with the actual change id and the store flag. The
nothing-to-show fallback hints and the ambiguous-item advice in validate
and show no longer suggest noun-form commands when a store is selected,
since those commands cannot reach a store root; store mode gets
--type-scoped top-level equivalents instead. No-store output is
unchanged.
* Derive setup's commit from the store shape and extract Git mechanics
Code-quality review follow-up:
- The initial commit was built from the rollback ledger, which is the
wrong concept: for a converted (existing, non-Git) root it committed
only the new anchors and identity file, leaving config and specs
uncommitted and clones unhealthy. When setup initializes the repo
itself, it now commits the full store shape (openspec/ plus
.openspec-store/), while pre-existing repos keep the
only-what-setup-created commit that protects user history and staged
files. Old beta files outside the store shape are never swept in.
- Identity-file creation is now owned solely by setup; registration runs
with writeMetadataIfMissing: false and verifies instead of writing,
removing the split ownership that made the commit plan leaky.
- Git probing, init, identity preflight, and commit mechanics moved from
operations.ts (1204 lines) into src/core/context-store/git.ts;
operations.ts is back to 1077 lines and owns only the lifecycles.
- Git lifecycle tests split into test/commands/context-store-git.test.ts
with shared fixtures in test/helpers/context-store-git.ts, including a
new conversion test that proves a clone of a converted root is
immediately healthy.
Spec and plan updated to lock the two commit modes. Full suite: 94
files, 1730 tests, green.
* Point the roadmap's next-item marker at slice 1.4
* Restructure the roadmap around root relationships
Fresh-eyes review outcome, settled in discussion: the layered
PM/architect-to-dev use case (high-level requirements in a standalone
store, implementation work in the app repo's own OpenSpec root) replaced
the rejected project-to-store binding idea with declared relationships
between roots and a fixed resolution precedence — explicit --store, then
nearest local root, then a declared default only when no local root
exists, then error with hint. References never change where commands
act.
- Slice 1.4 becomes one guidance pass (absorbs old 2.2; ~13 surfaces
from research) gated on the context-store terminology decision
promoted from L7.
- Phase 2 is fully absorbed: 2.1 shipped in 1.2, 2.2 into 1.4, 2.3 into
4.1 (initiative selection is hardcoded into ~5,500 lines of opening
machinery that 4.1 rebuilds; refactoring first is wasted motion).
- Phase 3 rewritten around relationships in both directions, references
first: repo-references-stores, declared-store fallback, canonical
remote in store identity, then store-level target declarations, local
repo map, and relationship health reporting.
- Phase 4 reframed as context assembly; editor opening is one consumer,
an agent session brief is another.
- New guardrails: references are repo-level config, never per-change
lifecycle links; one change lives in one root.
- goal.md gains the layered reference experience.
* Lock the naming, Phase 3, and Phase 5 decisions
Decisions settled after parallel product-level and staff-engineer
analyses:
- Naming: the noun is 'store', defined as 'a standalone OpenSpec repo
you've registered'. The context-store → store group rename plus the
full machine-token rename (diagnostic codes, JSON keys, data dir) land
first in slice 1.4; --store stays; committed store-repo formats are
already aligned and stay. openspec repo/--repo rejected: the --repo
prior means the code repo being operated on, colliding with target
project repos.
- Phase 3: index-not-inline reference injection; references: and the
fallback store: pointer both live in openspec/config.yaml (top-level
marker rejected — .openspec.yaml is taken by change metadata); one
typed id namespace with the kebab grammar locked for all id kinds;
relationships are location, declaration, or citation — never managed
per-artifact links, which is what initiative links were.
- Phase 5 criteria agreed: delete rather than hide, sequenced across
1.4, a small command-group deletion slice, and 4.1; never auto-delete
user data.
* Add the roadmap loop runbook
* Make the roadmap loop fully autonomous with layered reviews
No pause gates: unlocked decisions are made autonomously and recorded
as 'Decided autonomously (review me)' changelog lines; Phase 5
deletions proceed without confirmation. Review phases run as parallel
multi-agent Workflows plus the /code-review skill (high effort) and
codex CLI; /simplify runs serially after correctness fixes.
* Add the loop's parallelism policy
Serial across slices (single branch, shared junction files, mass
rename/deletion commits make cross-track rebases the riskiest
unattended operation); Workflow fan-outs within slices for mechanical
sweeps; read-only lookahead research for the next slice's code map.
* Switch the roadmap run driver from /loop to /goal
The docs position /loop as interval-based and /goal as the
condition-based counterpart: turns fire back-to-back until a verifiable
completion condition is met, with full main-loop tool and skill access
per turn and persistence across resume. That matches the queue's
semantics (next unit when the previous finishes, stop when done), so
loop.md becomes runbook.md, reframed around goal-driven turns with an
explicit per-turn status block for the goal evaluator and a declared
completion signal.
* Add the final acceptance capstone and standing quality bars
The goal condition previously checked activity (boxes ticked, suite
green); it now checks the product claim. Phase 6 / capstone 6.1: four
persona journeys including a cold-start agent dogfood, usability audits
(error catalog, vocabulary sweep, time-to-first-success), technical
audits (single-resolver invariant, dependency direction, dead code,
module sizes, agent-contract inventory, net LOC delta vs origin/main),
a whole-delta review gauntlet, and a committed release-readiness
report. Runbook gains standing per-slice quality bars: locked
vocabulary only, pasteable store-carrying errors, consistent agent
contracts, ~600-line module budget, no speculative abstractions, one
resolver.
* Bake the /goal invocation into the runbook header
* Write and review the store-rename-and-guidance slice spec
Two parallel adversarial reviews (subagent, codex CLI) converged on the
same flaw in the first draft: exempting the legacy groups from the token
rename contradicted the locked machine-token decision. The spec now
states one rule - total mechanical token rename, surgical prose rewrite,
behavior changes limited to the two riders - and folds the corrected
45-code token inventory, the missed guidance surfaces, and a
sweep-as-test acceptance criterion.
* Write and review the store-rename-and-guidance plan
Four green checkpoints: mechanical rename, the two riders, guidance
regeneration (three disjoint streams), and sweep/guards/dogfood. Both
parallel reviews (subagent, codex CLI) approved with fixes, all folded:
exact rider-1 deletion list with persisted path-bound views preserved,
Commander command:* error ownership, docs/concepts.md and beta-doc
runtime fixes, sweep roots excluding openspec/ history, old-data-dir
negative fixtures, pinned non-interactive dogfood init flags.
* Rename the context-store surface to store
Mechanical, total token rename per the slice spec: command group
(context-store -> store, subcommands unchanged), 45 diagnostic codes,
dotted context_store.* targets, JSON keys (context_store/context_stores
-> store/stores everywhere, legacy groups included), the machine-local
data dir (context-stores/ -> stores/), internal modules and symbols
(src/core/context-store -> src/core/store, ContextStore* -> Store*),
and every help/error/hint string. Committed store-repo formats are
untouched (.openspec-store/store.yaml, registry.yaml). The dead
getDefaultContextStoreRoot export is deleted; its negative path
assertion is kept inline. The --store flag description now carries the
locked definition, identical in Commander and completions metadata.
Full suite green (94 files, 1730 tests).
* Land the two store-rename riders
Rider 1: workspace open loses its legacy --store/--store-path initiative
selectors (the second live meaning of --store). The unreachable guard
branch and its workspace_open_store_without_initiative diagnostic are
deleted; --initiative keeps resolving through the cross-store scan, the
qualified <store>/<id> form, and the interactive picker; persisted
path-bound views still reopen and doctor (tests now write the view-state
fixture directly). Selector-advertising fix texts in initiative
resolution name only surviving forms.
Rider 2: the store group owns its unknown-subcommand path - the error
names the real subcommands (including ls) and points lifecycle-shaped
mistakes at the normal command with --store, same stderr text for human
and --json runs, exit 1. New tests cover the hint, the no-alias
negative, and the --help listing.
Full suite green (94 files, 1735 tests).
* Regenerate guidance around stores
Templates: every generated workflow skill (and its opsx command twin)
now carries a shared store-selection block - discover ids with
'openspec store list --json', carry --store <id> on every command,
hints keep the flag. The three out-of-guard workspace-planning prose
mentions reword to schema language; the five live workspace guards are
untouched. Parity hash tables updated deliberately and the test now
asserts the store teaching in all generated skills.
Docs accuracy pass: docs/cli.md store section renamed with the locked
vocabulary, removed workspace-open selector rows and example, stale
XDG-default setup text corrected; docs/concepts.md token renames;
workspaces-beta docs renamed plus correctness fixes (--path in setup
examples, current prompt-flow prose). Every documented invocation
smoke-ran against the built binary. The workspace and initiative group
one-liners are labeled legacy beta in Commander and completions.
Note: the .codex/skills/use-openspec guidance was also rewritten around
store discovery (beta reference deleted), but that directory is
git-ignored (the L8 ignored-local-skill), so those edits live on disk
only and cannot appear in this commit.
Full suite green (94 files, 1736 tests).
* Record the git-ignored .codex discovery in the slice artifacts
* Guard the rename with sweeps, format pins, and the dogfood proof
New tests: a vocabulary sweep over src/, test/, docs/, scripts/ (and
.codex/ when present) that fails on any reintroduction of the retired
tokens; committed-format pins (.openspec-store/store.yaml literals, the
stores/ data dir, pre-rename store registration); old-data-dir negative
fixtures (valid and corrupt old registries are ignored, never read or
migrated); a --store description exact-equality walk across every
lifecycle command; and a store:setup telemetry-path assertion.
Dogfood proof committed as dogfood-transcript.md: a fresh headless agent
session, one plain prompt naming the team store in words, discovered the
registered store via --help and store list and created the change with
--store - six tool calls, zero initiative/workspace invocations, local
root untouched.
Full suite green (95 files, 1742 tests).
* Fix the post-implementation review findings
Three parallel review mechanisms (spec-compliance agent: compliant with
findings; /code-review high: 10 verified findings; codex CLI: approve
with fixes) converged on two P2s and a set of cheap P3s, all fixed:
- The store group's unknown-subcommand hint no longer emits invalid
suggestions: 'store new <id>' without 'change' falls back to the full
form, flag-interleaved operands (which Commander cannot attribute)
use the generic example, the lifecycle-redirect set derives from
COMMAND_REGISTRY, and the subcommand list derives from the live
Commander group instead of a hardcoded string.
- Store-selection guidance names the seven commands that accept --store
instead of claiming every command does, and is removed from the
feedback workflow (whose only command rejects the flag); presence
coverage extended to all 11 opsx command templates; hash tables
re-pinned.
- Pasteable hints: 'Run store unregister' fix texts now name
'openspec store unregister <id>'; the empty-list setup hint carries
the mandatory --path.
- STORE_OPTION_DESCRIPTION now imports the completions description
instead of duplicating it; the path-bound view fixture persists
through the production writeWorkspaceViewState; the pre-rename
register test writes old-format bytes inline; the vocabulary sweep
file carries no retired tokens and no longer self-exempts.
Full suite green (95 files, 1745 tests).
* Apply the simplify-pass cleanups
Test guards now iterate the production registries: store-selection
presence checks run over getSkillTemplates()/getCommandContents() (new
workflows are covered automatically) and assert full-constant
containment; the --store description walk pins the exact seven command
names and ties each to the guidance prose, so a stale taught surface
fails tests. The store group one-liner derives from the completions
registry entry; the command:* flag predicate is derived, not restated;
retired-token constants are hoisted once per file; a redundant
assertion and a dynamic import are gone.
Skipped deliberately: the sweep's hand-rolled walker (measured ~48ms,
works), a cross-file retired-token helper (two files only), and
pre-existing duplications on surfaces the next slices delete.
Full suite green (95 files, 1745 tests).
* Tick slice 1.4 in the roadmap and point at the deletion slice
* Write and review the delete-legacy-command-groups slice spec
Both parallel adversarial reviews rejected the first draft on verified
grounds and every finding is folded: the config command's
workspace-profile integration (which executes a dead command) is in
scope; binding.ts stays because the planning-home carve-out depends on
it through workspace/foundation.ts; a dead-export carve-out ledger owned
by 4.1 is specified; concepts.md loses its whole Coordination Workspaces
section; the surviving 'Use initiatives' constraint rewords to read-only
compatibility language. The locked 5.1 'opening machinery' wording is
narrowed (recorded as a reviewable autonomous decision): the state model
and workspace-planning mode die in 4.1; zero-consumer opening helpers
die with the command groups.
* Write and review the delete-legacy-command-groups plan
Five deletion waves with grep-before-delete discipline. Both parallel
plan reviews folded: the planning-home mode pin (nothing asserts
actionContext.mode today) and the docs pointer grep gate are new
explicit steps; docs/cli.md dead-command references outside the cited
ranges are mapped (agent-table rows, Stores summary cell, config
section); the config.ts map gained the interface and core-preset call
sites with full test ranges; the parity test's initiative carve-out
removal is a named fourth partial edit; the spec's byte-stable clause
now permits the new removal-coverage tests.
* Delete the workspace and initiative command groups
The legacy beta command groups stop existing, and everything only they
consumed goes with them: the command layer (workspace.ts, initiative.ts,
the 11-file workspace/ command dir), the orphaned core (workspace
registry/openers/open-surface/skills/link-input and the whole
collections tree), the completions entries, the config command's
workspace-profile integration (which executed a dead command), the
update command's workspace detection, the docs that documented nothing
else (cli.md sections, concepts.md Coordination Workspaces,
docs/workspaces-beta/), and the tests of all of it.
Kept deliberately: planning-home and its state model (foundation,
state-io, legacy-state, store binding types - 4.1 owns their end),
legacy initiative metadata display, the --initiative rejection, and
every byte of user data. The 'Use initiatives' constraint rewords to
read-only compatibility language.
Ground truth recorded: workspace-planning mode has been CLI-unreachable
since slice 1.2's resolver demotion (toPlanningHome hardcodes repo
kind); the spec scenario was corrected to pin the byte-stable repo-local
behavior plus the library contract.
New removal-coverage tests (7) pin unknown-command rejection, help
cleanliness, update fall-through, user-data byte-identity, legacy
display, and the library contract. deletion-ledger.md records the 41
removed diagnostic codes and the dead-export carve-outs owned by 4.1.
Full suite green (85 files, 1614 tests). Pointer grep gate clean.
* Fix the deletion-slice review findings
Three parallel review mechanisms (spec-compliance: compliant with
findings, no P1; /code-review high: surgery residue and test-robustness
items; codex CLI: three P3s) converged on a small list, all applied:
the dead hasRepoLocalOpenSpecProject helper and its orphaned import are
deleted; the maybeWarnConfigDrift pass-through wrapper is collapsed and
its stale awaits dropped; the byte-identity test asserts the update
spawn's exit code and snapshots directories (not just files) so empty
subdirectory deletions cannot pass; the frozen-legacy-bytes fixture is
documented as deliberate; the project-apply accept path regained
coverage (lost with the deleted workspace tests); a sweep test pins the
ledger's surviving-token claim so workspace/initiative token regrowth
fails fast; the ledger records the state-io dead-export carve-outs, the
EACCES error-fidelity collateral, and the L2 pointer for the accepted
spec library that still describes deleted behavior.
Full suite green (85 files, 1616 tests).
* Apply the deletion-slice simplify pass and tick the roadmap
Simplify: the redundant hand-written store.yaml fixtures are gone
(registerStore writes identical metadata), the update action lost its
vestigial path.resolve scaffolding, and the sweep's four token spellings
collapsed to one concatenation-built regex. Skipped deliberately:
cross-suite snapshot helper extraction, state-io trimming, and barrel
removal - none pay for themselves before 4.1 deletes that code.
Roadmap: Phase 5 first tranche recorded (-12,903 net lines, ledger,
~25 fewer modules per CLI invocation), the workspace-planning
CLI-unreachability ground truth logged as a reviewable decision, and
the pointer moved to 3.1.
Full suite green (85 files, 1616 tests).
* Write and review the store-references slice spec (3.1)
Two adversarial rounds folded. The subagent's P1s were both grounding
failures: parseSpec() throws on imperfect upstream specs, so the index
extracts summaries tolerantly; and apply instructions have a real human
surface, so the index lives in both surfaces and both modes. Codex
added the async command-boundary assembly (the sync generators receive
the index as input), the 50KB shared budget with order-preserving
truncation, and registry-corruption degradation. Five warning codes
degrade instructions instead of failing them; references parse raw and
validate in the assembler; the index is one level deep by rule.
* Write and review the store-references plan (3.1)
Two checkpoints (config + assembler core; instruction surfaces + docs).
Both plan reviews approved with fixes, all folded: pure renderers live
in core beside the assembler so the 50KB budget measures real output
(truncation stops before the cap, warning line exempt); the
inspectRegisteredStore extraction is pinned narrow - metadata/health
stages only, registry lookup stays in resolveStoreRoot and its seven
error codes stay byte-identical; config is read once at the command
boundary and suppresses the generator's internal read; the Purpose-line
scanner is self-contained; the test matrix gained symmetric --store,
boundary byte-identity, no-recursion, nothing-frozen, and not-inlined
assertions.
* Add the references config field and the index assembler core
openspec/config.yaml gains references: (raw strings kept, deduplicated,
order-preserving; grammar validation is the assembler's job so bad ids
surface as diagnostics). New src/core/references.ts assembles the
referenced-store index: one registry read per call, the narrow
inspectRegisteredStore extraction shared with resolveStoreRoot (whose
seven error codes stay byte-identical, pinned by the existing
root-selection tests), tolerant first-Purpose-line summaries, five
warning diagnostic codes, self-reference omission by id and path, and
the 50KB budget with order-preserving truncation measured by the pure
renderers that the command layer will print.
Full suite green (86 files, 1630 tests).
* Wire the referenced-store index into both instruction surfaces
The command layer reads the resolved root's config once (suppressing
the generator's internal read), assembles the index, and threads it
into generateInstructions and generateApplyInstructions. Artifact human
mode prints the <referenced_stores> XML block after project context;
apply human mode prints a '### Referenced Stores' markdown section.
JSON gains an additive references field, omitted when none are
declared. docs/cli.md gains the 'Referencing stores from a project'
subsection.
Seven new surface tests pin: both surfaces both modes, live (unfrozen)
summaries, field omission, symmetric --store declarations, the
one-level rule, non-instruction byte-identity with the store untouched,
and the full PM-to-dev layered flow including the verbatim fetch.
Full suite green (87 files, 1637 tests).
* Fix the 3.1 review findings
Three review mechanisms converged on six real issues, all fixed with
regression tests: extractFirstPurposeLine is fence-aware and accepts
CommonMark closing hashes; an index emptied by self-reference omission
now omits the JSON field (omitted-not-empty contract); truncation
renders its message as a Note line instead of an orphan fix; the budget
measures the real rendering in UTF-8 bytes (problem entries and
diagnostics included; only the truncation warning exempt) with a
binary-search prefix; registry-independent checks (invalid id,
self-reference) run before the corrupt-registry branch; the assembler
catches inspection throws and degrades them; the resolveStoreRoot
switch is explicit (return fromStoreError) with an exhaustiveness
guard; generateApplyInstructions takes an options bag instead of a
fifth positional; the dead config-read catch is gone; spec files read
concurrently.
Full suite green (87 files, 1641 tests).
* Apply the 3.1 simplify pass and tick the roadmap
Simplify: the two new test suites share test/helpers/openspec-fixtures
(createOpenSpecRoot/writeSpec); the dead canonicalize wrapper is gone
(canonicalizeExistingPath never throws); the 50KB cap is single-sourced
from project-config's exported MAX_CONTEXT_SIZE; the registry-unreadable
state collapsed into one nullable variable; spread and JSDoc nits.
Skipped with reasoning: renderer branch merge, binary-search
replacement (measured: cap self-bounds the cost), cross-suite snapshot
consolidation, and the remaining ~1ms duplicate config read (the
project's own perf note rejects that trade).
Roadmap: 3.1 boxes ticked, changelog round recorded, pointer moved to
3.2. Full suite green (88 files, 1641 tests).
* Write and review the declared-store-fallback slice spec (3.2)
Both adversarial reviews converged on the same P1: the spec claimed
declared roots behave exactly like --store roots while its own UX
example printed a relative path, and the scope named only two of the
seven source-keyed consumers. The fix is one store-selected predicate
(storeId set) adopted everywhere. Also folded: init refuses to bury a
pointer under a scaffold; malformed pointers error
(invalid_store_pointer) instead of silently flipping the write target;
one-hop pointer resolution; warning-silent resolver config reads;
directory-typed shape stats; the true-prefix declaredOrigin mechanism;
and the recorded amendment relocating the both-shapes warning from the
nonexistent project doctor to resolution stderr.
* Write and review the declared-store-fallback plan (3.2)
Both plan reviews approved with fixes, folded: the eighth
source==='store' check (show.ts printNonInteractiveHint) joins the
predicate inventory with a recorded spec amendment; the init guard
anchors immediately after validate() so legacy cleanup and the
global-config migration write cannot precede the refusal; the
declaration-origin prefix is a call-site rewrap (codes preserved, fix
unprefixed) covering the fromStoreError pass-throughs; the targeted
config read is a shared exported helper; the test matrix covers all
five prefixed taxonomy codes, the malformed-pointer no-write
assertion, deterministic byte-identity, and positive config-only
assertions.
* Add the declared-store fallback to root resolution
A config-only openspec/ directory with a store: pointer now resolves
the declared store: the nearest-root arm classifies the found dir with
two directory stats, reads the pointer via the new warning-silent
readStorePointer helper (malformed pointers error with
invalid_store_pointer - never a silent local write), and resolves
through the shared resolveStoreRoot pipeline with source 'declared'
and a declaration-origin rewrap (codes and fixes untouched). A real
root with a pointer warns once on stderr and stays nearest - fallback
never override. The new isStoreSelectedRoot predicate (storeId set)
replaces all eight source==='store' checks so declared roots get
identical cross-root behavior: banner, --store hints, absolute paths,
suppressed noun-form suggestions.
Nine new resolver tests cover the pointer, precedence, the both-shapes
warning, malformed pointers, all five prefixed taxonomy codes, one-hop
resolution, and .yml origins.
Full suite green (88 files, 1650 tests).
* Add the init pointer guard, externalized-planning e2e, and docs
openspec init now refuses to scaffold a config-only pointer directory,
anchored immediately after validate() so the refusal precedes legacy
cleanup, migration writes, and prompts - the test pins that nothing
changes on disk and that removing the store: line converts cleanly.
The e2e journey runs the full lifecycle (new change through archive)
in a pointer repo without --store anywhere: work lands in the store,
the pointer repo stays byte-identical, the banner and JSON root block
report declared, nextSteps hints carry --store, and the 3.1 references
composition surfaces the store's own upstream index. docs/cli.md gains
the 'Declaring a default store' subsection.
Full suite green (89 files, 1654 tests).
* Fix the 3.2 review findings
Three review mechanisms converged; all real findings fixed with
regression tests: empty or comments-only configs in config-only dirs
are plain roots again (the documented comment-out conversion path no
longer strands every command behind invalid_store_pointer; non-mapping
scalars carry no pointer); the malformed reason splits into
unparseable vs non-string with accurate messages and fixes; the init
guard now refuses malformed pointers too and walks ancestors so a
pointer-repo subdirectory cannot grow a nested root that silently
diverts work; resolver and init share one classifyOpenSpecDir (the
classification can never diverge); readProjectConfig and
readStorePointer share one .yaml/.yml probe; the fourth copy of the
snapshot test helper is consolidated into test/helpers/fs-snapshot.ts;
the resolver header documents invalid_store_pointer; the
absolute-path warning wording is recorded as a spec amendment.
Full suite green (89 files, 1656 tests).
* Apply the 3.2 simplify pass and tick the roadmap
Simplify: isStoreSelectedRoot is a type guard (three redundant
conjuncts gone); the malformed-pointer reason strings single-source
through storePointerProblem in project-config (init's copies were
unpinned and could drift); the init guard drops its ternary for the
walk that finds projectPath in extend mode anyway. Skipped with
reasoning: directoryExistsSync consolidation (four pre-existing private
copies, out of slice), the warnings-array altitude (3.6 owns the
structured surface), the classification's module home (revisit when
3.6 consumes it).
Roadmap: 3.2 boxes ticked, changelog round recorded (including the
detached-HEAD process note), pointer moved to 3.3.
Full suite green (89 files, 1656 tests).
* Write and review the store-canonical-remote slice spec (3.3)
Two adversarial reviews converged on the contract holes, all folded:
the setup-rerun origin-erasure P1 (probe in both flows so
storeBackendsMatch stays consistent and the 1.3 rerun no-op survives);
register's write contract stated precisely (never commits, never
modifies an existing store.yaml; conversion identity stays
remote-free); the one-way strict-schema compatibility recorded as a
standing constraint for 3.4; mixed references dedup semantics
(normalize, dedup by id, first remote wins); verbatim-pasteable clone
fixes via ~/openspec/<id>; setup --remote refuses to be silently
ignored; the doctor example redrawn from the real layout; the
no-network clause pinned testably.
* Write and review the store-canonical-remote plan (3.3)
Both plan reviews approved with fixes, folded: clone fixes render
absolute home paths (tilde never expands outside a shell; agent JSON
consumers execute argv directly) with the spec amended to match;
setup's origin probe reaches both backend-resolution sites so reruns
cannot re-introduce the erasure P1, and stays out of
resolveGitStoreBackendConfig's hot read paths; the sharing-guidance
plumbing is concrete (StoreMutationResult carries canonical/observed,
JSON drops them, printMutationHuman renders the preference chain); the
setup-JSON contradiction resolved for the unchanged StoreOutput shape;
getOriginUrl trims; the --remote-vs-existing refusal fires in
prepareStoreSetup before any prompt or write; fill-if-absent dedup
pinned; registry anchors and test filenames corrected; TEST-NET
fixtures via git remote add.
* Record canonical and observed store remotes (3.3 checkpoint 1)
store.yaml gains an optional remote (strict schema retained; pre-3.3
files parse; unknown keys and empty remotes still fail). setup --remote
writes it before the initial commit, fails on empty values before
creating anything, and refuses with the hand-edit fix when store.yaml
already exists - silent flag acceptance is the forbidden outcome. Both
setup backend-resolution sites and register probe the local git origin
(gitOriginUrl, config read only) into the machine-local registry entry,
so reruns stay no-ops that preserve the record and re-register
refreshes it; conversion-created identity stays {version, id}. Doctor
surfaces metadata.remote and git.origin_url, with one human Remote line
preferring canonical. Sharing guidance names the canonical remote, then
the observed origin, then keeps today's wording - threaded through
StoreMutationResult.remotes and dropped from JSON.
15 new tests; three additive pins updated (doctor git shape x2, the
completions flag registry friction pin).
Full suite green (90 files, 1671 tests).
* Carry clone sources in reference declarations (3.3 checkpoint 2)
references: entries now accept {id, remote} maps alongside plain ids,
normalized to ReferenceDeclaration[] (dedup by id keeps the first
position; the first remote seen fills a missing one, never overrides).
The unresolved-reference fix becomes a verbatim-pasteable
git clone <remote> <home>/openspec/<id> && openspec store register ...
- absolute home path because tilde never expands outside a shell and
agent JSON consumers execute argv directly. An invalid id still wins
over any declared remote. The e2e onboarding journey executes the
printed fix verbatim (scratch HOME, local-path remote, split on the
shell &&) and continues to a resolved index - including the clone-trap
lesson that the origin must track anchor files. docs/cli.md documents
--remote, the store.yaml field, and the reference-with-remote form.
Full suite green (90 files, 1674 tests).
* Fix the 3.3 review findings
Three review mechanisms converged; all real findings fixed with
regression tests: register (and both setup sites) no longer probe the
origin of a non-repo store folder nested inside another repository -
git -C walks up, so the enclosing repo's origin could be durably
recorded and printed as sharing guidance (the shared
resolveBackendWithObservedOrigin helper guards with an at-root check
and deduplicates the triplicated probe block); the clone fix quotes
the checkout path, separates the remote with --, and renders only
shell-inert remotes (a config-committed --upload-pack or
metacharacter-bearing remote falls back to the teammate wording -
agents execute these fixes verbatim); setupPreparedStore re-asserts
the hand-edit refusal so metadata materializing between prepare and
execute cannot silently swallow --remote; a same-checkout origin
backfill now reports already_registered: true while still refreshing
the entry (the 1.3 rerun-reporting contract); the references warnings
distinguish dropped entries from dropped remotes; the dead zod union
for references is gone (the manual parser is the documented single
source); foundation's duplicate empty-remote message names its layer.
New pins: setup-rerun remote preservation, origin-backfill reporting,
the nested-repo guard, and the shell-safety gate.
Full suite green (90 files, 1678 tests).
* Apply the 3.3 simplify pass and tick the roadmap
Simplify: the duplicated store_remote_requires_hand_edit throw is one
factory (the TOCTOU re-assert can no longer drift from the prepare
guard); commitStoreRegistration restructures around a normalized
sameCheckout predicate - three near-identical returns become one, and
a symlinked-path remote refresh no longer misreports as a fresh
registration. Skipped with reasoning: the test fixture consolidation
(near the option ceiling), the checkout-location prose/computed split
and the ext:: transport hardening (both recorded as capstone notes),
doctor divergence display (spec-locked quiet form).
Roadmap: 3.3 boxes ticked, changelog round recorded, pointer moved to
3.4. Full suite green (90 files, 1678 tests).
* Write and review the store-targets slice spec (3.4)
Both adversarial reviews approved with fixes, folded: the apply
surface's indirect metadata flow (assembly runs inside
generateApplyInstructions with store targets passed through the
options bag); empty narrowing treated as undeclared; status always in
the JSON shape so agents see degradation; remote inheritance under
narrowing; the change-level grammar cliff owned explicitly;
KebabIdentifierSchema as the named validator with a neutral shared
kebab predicate replacing store-flavored naming; declared-root
sessions and the inert pointer-dir wrong turn covered.
* Write and review the store-targets plan (3.4)
Both plan reviews approved with fixes, folded: the artifact human
rendering anchored to printInstructionsText (instruction-loader
renders nothing); the unknown-store and root-resolution pins added;
validateStoreId delegates to the neutral isKebabId so one kebab regex
remains; the label-factory call corrected; the apply options bag
carries the resolved config path for fix text; inline expected strings
replace snapshot wording; the e2e gains a second non-narrowed change.
* Add the targets declaration layer (3.4 checkpoint 1)
One shared declaration-list parser now backs both references: and the
new targets: config field (identical normalization, dedup, and split
warnings - the 3.1/3.3 references pins stay green untouched).
ChangeMetadataSchema gains targets as kebab-validated ordinary
metadata, and the kebab grammar finally has one source of truth: the
exported isKebabId in change-metadata/schema, which validateStoreId
now delegates to. The pure src/core/targets.ts assembles the effective
set (change narrowing replaces the store list with remote inheritance
by id join; empty narrowing means undeclared; target_invalid_id and
target_not_declared degradation) and renders the XML block and
markdown section with pinned provenance wording.
Full suite green (91 files, 1690 tests).
* Surface effective targets in instructions (3.4 checkpoint 2)
Both instruction surfaces in both modes now carry the effective target
set: the artifact path assembles in instructionsCommand (change
context and config both in hand) and threads through
GenerateInstructionsOptions; the apply path passes storeTargets and
the resolved config path through the options bag and assembles inside
generateApplyInstructions where the change metadata loads. JSON gets
{source, repos, status} omitted-when-none; human output renders the
target_repos XML block and the Target Repos markdown section after the
referenced-stores blocks. Six surface tests cover provenance on both
surfaces, narrowing with remote inheritance beside a non-narrowed
sibling change, vocabulary warnings in JSON and human at exit 0,
omitted-when-none, pointer sessions reading the resolved root (the
pointer dir's own targets are inert), the unknown-store pin for target
ids, and non-instruction byte-identity. docs/cli.md documents the
declaration and the targets-vs-affected_areas split.
Full suite green (92 files, 1696 tests).
* Fix the 3.4 review findings
Three review mechanisms converged on polish-level findings (no P1/P2),
all folded: change-level target duplicates dedup to a set (first
occurrence wins); the non-array config warning names repo ids for
targets instead of borrowing the references noun; both instruction
surfaces now share ONE wiring shape - the artifact path passes raw
storeTargets/storeConfigPath like apply and assembly happens inside
the generator where change metadata lives (the silently-degrading
asymmetry a second caller would have tripped on); the shared
declaration type is renamed DeclarationEntry (it backs repos and
stores alike) with the stale references-only comment gone; the dead
KEBAB_ID_REGEX export is private again; METADATA_FILENAME is exported
and reused instead of two string literals; the spec's severity-cliff
wording amended to the real blast radius (instructions/status read
metadata; show/validate/archive never did). Recorded for later: the
workspace kebab-regex copy dies with 4.1; the all-invalid-store-ids
empty-repos render is distinguishable by status and stays.
Full suite green (92 files, 1696 tests).
* Apply the 3.4 simplify pass and tick the roadmap
Simplify: the conditional spreads at both command boundaries collapse
to plain optional fields (internal options, not JSON output); the
loader falls back to the self-read config's targets so library callers
omitting the option agree with the CLI wiring; cosmetic blank-line and
spec-wrap leftovers fixed. Skipped with reasoning: a shared id.ts home
for the kebab grammar (3.5's natural move), the references barrel
export note and parseJson consolidation (capstone), import-statement
merges (trivia).
Roadmap: 3.4 boxes ticked, changelog round recorded, pointer moved to
3.5. Full suite green (92 files, 1696 tests).
* Write and review the repo-map slice spec (3.5)
Both adversarial reviews approved with fixes, folded. The P1: the four
registry state-rebuild sites would silently erase the new repos:
section on the next store write - preservation is a pinned scenario
naming the sites. Also folded: repo-check precedence over both
unknown-store branches with a non-looping zero-stores fix; path AND id
cross-section uniqueness with four claimant codes; invalid_repo_id
wording with the --id hint for default folder names; the kebab
predicate's neutral id.ts home; pinned JSON contracts; the honest
one-additional-read wiring; TargetRepoEntry; the recorded Unicode
arrow and corrupt-registry silence decisions.
* Write and review the repo-map plan (3.5)
Both plan reviews approved with fixes, folded: the cross-section check
lives inside assertNoRegisteredStoreConflict (four call sites incl.
three operations preflights - hooking only the write helper would let
setup scaffold files before failing, so an early-reject pin is
planned); getRepoPath reconciled as a dumb id lookup whose 3.5 caller
is repo unregister while the enrichment uses listRepoEntries on its
own read; six missing test mappings added (store list/doctor with both
sections, empty-list verbatim, repo_not_found, mixed-registry positive
resolution, directory-untouched unregister, both-surface enrichment);
two code-map anchors corrected.
* Add typed registry sections and the repo map core (3.5 checkpoint 1)
The machine-local registry gains an optional strict repos: section
beside stores:, carried through parse, serialize, and both store write
helpers (the preservation matrix is pinned - a schema-only change
would have silently erased every repo mapping on the next store
write). Cross-section uniqueness for ids AND paths lives inside
assertNoRegisteredStoreConflict (covering the three operations
preflights) and the new assertNoRegisteredRepoConflict, with the four
claimant codes plus in-section repo_id_conflict/repo_path_conflict.
registerRepo/unregisterRepo/listRepoEntries/getRepoPath form the core
API (rerun no-op, repo_not_found, corrupt-registry null). The kebab
grammar moves to its neutral src/core/id.ts home; change-metadata
re-exports, store foundation and targets consume it, and registry key
validation produces label-accurate wording.
Full suite green (93 files, 1705 tests).
* Add the repo command group, typed rejection, and path enrichment (3.5 checkpoint 2)
openspec repo register/unregister/list manage the machine-local repo
map with the pinned JSON contracts (folder-name default ids with the
--id fix when grammar fails; repo_path_missing/not_directory;
repo_not_found; rerun no-op; unregister never touches the checkout).
--store with a registered repo id now rejects with store_id_is_repo
before BOTH unknown-store branches - including zero-stores, whose fix
suggests a different id instead of looping into the cross-section
conflict - and propagates through the 3.2 pointer with the Declared-in
prefix. Effective-target entries gain a local path when the repo map
resolves them (TargetRepoEntry; arrow and combined renders; one
additional registry read in loadRootConfigContext; corrupt registry
yields bare entries silently). Completions registry, friction pins,
and docs updated; store setup with a repo-claimed id is pinned to
create nothing.
Full suite green (94 files, 1714 tests).
* Fix the 3.5 review findings
Three review mechanisms converged; all fixed with regression tests:
the library API enforces its own invariants (registerRepo validates
path-then-id with typed repo_path_missing/not_directory and
invalid_repo_id errors; unregisterRepo validates ids - a 4.1 caller
gets input errors, not serialize-time registry-corruption noise; the
command rewraps default-folder-name grammar failures with the --id
fix); no-op reruns never take the write lock or rewrite the registry
file (mtime/format churn pinned away); the stale getRepoPath pre-read
in unregister is gone (the locked removal is authoritative); the repo
map is read unconditionally so change-only targets enrich too; a
hand-edited registry with one id in both sections now fails clearly at
parse time instead of resolving ambiguously; store_id_is_repo embeds
its action in the message (human wrappers print message only - the
recorded family precedent); the register/unregister JSON shapes split
into total types; the docs Repo map heading no longer re-parents the
default-store subsection.
getRepoPath stays exported as recorded 4.1 groundwork (unit-tested,
no production caller yet - the 3.3 persisted-remote precedent).
Full suite green (94 files, 1718 tests).
* Apply the 3.5 simplify pass and tick the roadmap
Simplify: the third copy of the JSON/failure plumbing collapses into
commands/shared-output (one definition of the failure contract, used
by store and repo); the same-mapping predicate is hoisted in
registerRepo; the kebab grammar wording single-sources through
KEBAB_ID_DESCRIPTION; an unused test import and two docs nits fixed.
Skipped with reasoning: the registry-state builder quadruplication
(settled mirror territory), validator placement, the unconditional
registry read (measure-by-reasoning verdict: the only correct gate
needs data that arrives after the read on the apply path).
Roadmap: 3.5 boxes ticked, changelog round recorded, pointer moved to
3.6. Full suite green (94 files, 1718 tests).
* Write and review the relationship-health slice spec (3.6)
Both adversarial reviews approved with fixes (two P1s each,
converging), all folded: the exit-code rule now mirrors store
doctor's REAL contract (health findings exit 0; the draft cited a
nonexistent errors-exit-1 behavior); the JSON shape gains the lock's
separate store-metadata section and the 3.4-recorded inert-pointer
deferral lands as pointer_declarations_inert; a real
includeSpecs:false assembler mode replaces the strip-after hedge; the
assembler accepts a pre-read registry so one read feeds everything;
target_unmapped suppressed under unreadable registries;
grammar-invalid targets synthesize bare entries; the both-shapes
detection mechanism and stderr duplication recorded; the
STORE_SELECTION_GUIDANCE consequence scoped; missing scenarios added.
* Write and review the relationship-health plan (3.6)
Both plan reviews converged on three P1-grade holes, all folded: the
registry-injection option inverted the established null semantics (a
fresh machine with no registry file would have been marked unreadable
- the option is now registryEntries with [] = empty and null =
unreadable, mirroring the assembler's post-read variable);
resolveRootForCommand needs an additive allowImplicitRoot
pass-through (it forwards only store/storePath today); and the
invalid-target synthesis would have required parsing ids out of
message strings (the inspector receives raw declarations and uses
isKebabId). Plus: the inert-pointer re-walk named (the declared root
is the store; findRepoPlanningRootSync(cwd) finds the pointer dir);
the human-rendering contradiction resolved in favor of the spec
transcript; truncation-never and pass-through pins mapped; the dead
status key dropped from the failure payload.
* Add the health-mode assembler options and the relationship inspector (3.6 checkpoint 1)
assembleReferenceIndex gains includeSpecs:false (skipping the
spec-file reads AND the byte budget - health entries carry no
specs/fetch keys and the content-only truncation diagnostic can never
appear) and registryEntries injection with the [] -vs- null semantics
that mirror the assembler's own post-read variable (a naive raw-read
injection would mark every fresh machine unreadable). The pure
src/core/relationship-health.ts composes the doctor command's gathered
inputs into the lock's four separated categories, synthesizing
target_unmapped (suppressed under unreadable registries), structural
target_invalid_id entries from the raw declarations (never parsed from
messages), relationship_registry_unreadable, root_pointer_ignored,
pointer_declarations_inert, and the store_remote_divergence info note.
Full suite green (95 files, 1727 tests).
* Add openspec doctor (3.6 checkpoint 2)
The root-scoped relationship-health command: resolves like every
normal command (with the new additive allowImplicitRoot pass-through
on resolveRootForCommand and the null-shape failure payload), gathers
with ONE registry read feeding references, targets, and the unreadable
signal coherently, detects the both-shapes and inert-pointer wrong
turns (the latter via the cwd re-walk, working from subdirectories),
reads store facts for explicit and declared store-backed roots, and
renders the three-heading transcript voice with (none declared)
sections and Fix lines. Health findings of any severity exit 0; only
command failures exit 1. STORE_SELECTION_GUIDANCE gains doctor and the
skill-template parity hashes update deliberately; completions and the
--store description pins extended. Eight e2e tests cover the full
matrix incl. empty-vs-unreadable registries, divergence info, and the
read-only snapshot.
Full suite green (96 files, 1735 tests).
* Fix the 3.6 review findings
Three review mechanisms converged; all fixed with regression tests:
human-mode command failures now print the taxonomy Error/Fix lines
instead of a raw stack trace (the action gained the sibling-standard
try/catch); stale repo mappings surface as target_path_missing (the
lock's 'target checkout health' now actually stats mapped paths);
self-reference-emptied reference lists render '(declared references
all resolve to this root)' instead of the false '(none declared)'; a
malformed store: pointer on a real root surfaces as
root_pointer_invalid (the resolver is silent there); the synthesized
target_invalid_id fix carries the real config path; the inspector
reuses toRootOutput; instructions' registry read now feeds the
reference assembler through the 3.6 injection point (no more torn
snapshots between repoPaths and the index); the human renderer's
duplicated section loops collapse into shared helpers; the spec's
exit-1 list gains the recorded corrupt-store.yaml amendment (store
resolution rejects before doctor runs - a doctor-only resolution path
would break the one-resolver invariant).
Full suite green (96 files, 1739 tests).
* Apply the 3.6 simplify pass and tick the roadmap - Phase 3 complete
Simplify: readRegistrySnapshot extracts the torn-snapshot invariant
into one place (doctor and instructions both consume it); doctor's
catch routes through emitFailure, fixing a --json inconsistency where
post-resolution failures printed human lines without a JSON payload;
shared asStatus duck-types the diagnostic envelope so
RootSelectionError fixes survive; the inspector reuses
storePointerProblem (the fifth phrase copy dies); the existsSync sweep
stats only declared targets; the dead toRootOutput import removed.
Skipped with reasoning: the warning-factory extraction (the fourth
copy does not fit the shape), the config-path-fallback micro-helper.
Roadmap: 3.6 boxes ticked, Phase 3 marked complete on the branch,
changelog round recorded, pointer moved to 4.1.
Full suite green (96 files, 1739 tests).
* Trim the review profile for Phase 5 deletion slices
* Write and review the assemble-working-context slice spec (4.1)
Both adversarial reviews approved with fixes, converging on the
deletion-grounding P1s: binding.ts dies whole (5.1 kept it only for
workspace/foundation's import - with workspace/ gone it would be
exactly the hidden-not-deleted state the criteria reject) and the five
workflow-template workspace-planning guards 5.1 deeded here join the
deletion list with their parity churn named. Also folded: the
change-status-policy cascade enumerated; the shared doctor/context
data gather made mandatory with context recorded as silent on wrong
turns; the member-mapping table pinned; code-workspace write semantics
pinned; getRepoPath deleted rather than re-hidden; fetchRecipe
exported; the naming paragraph recorded.
* Write and review the assemble-working-context plan (4.1)
Both plan reviews approved with fixes, folded: the spec's
code_workspace_exists diagnostic collides with the vocabulary sweep's
workspace_* ban - amended to context_file_exists; the parity test's
workspace-planning guard assertion flips to absence; the policy
tranche names ChangeStatus.affectedAreas and the artifact-graph barrel
re-export; doctor-extraction weakened to behavior-identical; the
unresolved-members-stderr e2e mapped; the sweep guardrail reworded
honestly; stale hedges resolved. Both reviewers verified the deletion
order dependency-safe and every anchor accurate.
* Delete the workspace opening machinery (4.1 checkpoint 1)
The absorbed 2.3, executed leaves-first: the ten workspace-planning
template guards (parity test flipped to a no-residue assertion); the
change-status-policy cascade (summarizeAffectedAreas,
AffectedAreasSummary, affectedAreas plumbing, workspaceName, the
workspace-planning mode member, the workspace next-steps, the
artifact-graph barrel re-export); planning-home collapsed to repo-only
(PlanningHomeKind = 'repo'; the workspace state read and
workspace-planning default schema die); src/core/workspace/ whole
(897 lines) with its barrel line and tests; store/binding.ts whole
(~300 lines - 5.1 kept it only for workspace/foundation's import)
with its barrel line and binding tests; getRepoPath (its recorded
consumers evaporated). The library pins that froze the carve-outs die
with the behavior; the six legacy-groups CLI-surface pins stay green
untouched. The deletion ledger marks the carve-outs executed and the
workspace_skills vocabulary-allowlist entry is pruned. No
.openspec-workspace reads remain anywhere in src.
Net: 27 files, -2,196 lines / +40.
Full suite green (94 files, 1706 tests).
* Add openspec context, the assembled working set (4.1 checkpoint 2)
The working set a root's declarations describe, in one command: the
JSON agent brief (root + members with roles, absolute paths, fetch
recipes on available stores, and the existing fixes verbatim on
unavailable members), the human listing with the Not-available
section, and the --code-workspace editor view (available members only;
ref:/repo: folder prefixes; the pinned write matrix - typed
context_file_exists refusal, --force, no implicit mkdir, stderr
confirmation under --json; stale mapped paths excluded - reported, not
guessed). Assembly is presentation over the 3.6 composition through
the new shared command gather (doctor refactored onto it,
behavior-identical); fetchRecipe exported as the one recipe source.
STORE_SELECTION_GUIDANCE gains context with the parity hashes and
completions pins updated deliberately; docs add the section and the
project-context vs working-context disambiguation.
Full suite green (95 files, 1711 tests).
* Fix the 4.1 review findings
Three review mechanisms converged; all fixed with regression tests:
the --json + --code-workspace failure path now leaves exactly one JSON
document on stdout (the write runs before the brief is printed; both
failure modes pinned); context mirrors doctor's self-reference honesty
('Declared references all resolve to this root' instead of the false
'nothing declared'); the registry degradation is selected by
diagnostic code, never by array position (the fragile health.status[0]
coupling and the redundant boolean+diagnostic pair are gone); the
write summary names the skipped member ids instead of pointing JSON
users at a listing that is not there, with the count arithmetic in
plain form; the dead planningHome params on
buildNextSteps/buildActionContext inputs and their loader threading
are removed; the leftover binding imports in registry.test.ts and
three pieces of edit debris are swept; the ledger's Surviving-tokens
section is pruned; the doctor docs section cross-links context; and
the spec's working-set/builder unit-test bullet is fulfilled
(test/core/working-set.test.ts - the mapping table, ordering,
availability rule, by-code selection, and builder shape).
Skipped with reasoning: suppressing the resolver's both-shapes stderr
warning for context runs (codex P3) - that warning is 3.2 family
behavior for every command at resolution time; forking it per command
would fragment the one-resolver contract. Recorded for the capstone.
Full suite green (96 files, 1715 tests).
* Apply the 4.1 simplify pass and tick the roadmap - Phase 4 complete
Simplify: the stale-path stat sweep moves into shared-gather as
missingDeclaredRepoPaths (doctor and context both consume it; the
header comment now tells the truth); the dead Windows-path machinery
in planning-home dies with the stale workspace-kind test that was its
only exerciser (formatChangeLocation collapses to path.relative); the
garbled vocabulary-sweep comment is repaired; doctor's dead fs import
removed; the context_output_dir_missing code recorded as a plan
amendment instead of silent drift. Skipped with reasoning: the
printEntryDiagnostics extraction (net-zero lines, couples two
surfaces' voices); the three filter passes (readability beats a
one-pass accumulator at single-digit N); PlanningHomeSummary identity
(recorded for the capstone).
Roadmap: 4.1 boxes ticked, Phase 4 complete on the branch, pointer
moved to the Phase 5 remainder.
Full suite green (96 files, 1714 tests).
* Execute the Phase 5 remainder - 5.1 fully closed
Per the locked delete-don't-hide criteria, after 4.1 as queued
(decision record: slices/delete-legacy-command-groups/remainder.md):
schemas/workspace-planning/ deleted (openspec schemas still advertised
the dead workflow); the four workspace-* beta change folders deleted
(unimplemented relics - archiving would assert completion; git
preserves); L2 decided - the four wholly-workspace accepted specs
deleted (capability gone = spec gone) and the workspace requirements
excised from cli-config and cli-artifact-workflow (two requirements,
eight scenarios - bounded short of the docs rewrite the roadmap
forbids). Incidental mentions in five other specs recorded for the
capstone vocabulary audit. All 36 remaining accepted specs validate;
full suite green untouched (96 files, 1714 tests).
* Capstone: all four persona journeys pass (6.1)
Journeys 2 and 3 land as standing e2e in
test/cli-e2e/capstone-journeys.test.ts - the layered PM-to-dev flow
(an app-repo agent discovers the reference from config via openspec
context, cites the upstream spec by following the fetch recipe
verbatim, and writes its design change in the app repo's own root
while the store stays read-only) and externalized planning (a code
repo with only a store: pointer runs new-change through archive with
zero --store flags and never grows planning state). Journey 1 is the
standing store-lifecycle e2e. Journey 4 ran as a live cold-start
headless dogfood: a fresh codex session given only a vague prompt and
--help output assembled the full intended topology - store setup,
targets declaration, pointer config, repo mapping, and
doctor/context/validate self-verification. Results recorded in
capstone/journeys.md.
Full suite green (97 files, 1716 tests).
* Capstone: usability audits done (6.1)
Error-catalog walk: 55 wrong turns exercised live across 13 families
(human + JSON) against the actionable/store-carrying/correct-exit/
honest bar - 46 pass. The resolution-layer taxonomy held
(differentiated no-root hints, single-document JSON failures,
shell-parseable clone fixes, bidirectional namespace collisions). Nine
failures recorded and queued for the capstone fix round: 1 P1 (raw
YAML stack trace on unparseable real-root configs), 4 P2 (pathless
corrupt-registry fix that dead-ends through store doctor, instructions
dropping its Fix line, validate summaries without drill-down,
implicit scaffolding creating doctor-unhealthy roots), 4 P3.
Vocabulary sweep incl. docs/cli.md: clean except the legacy
ChangeStatus.initiative JSON passthrough (queued; the schema keeps
parsing user data). Time-to-first-success measured live: 2 commands,
2 concepts, each step printing the next command.
* Fix the capstone usability-audit findings
All nine error-catalog failures plus the vocabulary finding, with the
test pins updated deliberately:
P1 - unparseable real-root configs no longer dump a YAMLParseError
stack trace: readProjectConfig warns with one line naming the file and
the first error line only (pinned: single line, no node_modules).
P2 - the corrupt-registry fix names the actual registry file path; the
CLI's shared error wrapper (17 catch sites) now prints the diagnostic
fix line it used to drop, so instructions and every sibling carry the
pasteable next step; validate failure summaries print a drill-down
command carrying --store (derived from the resolved root); implicit
scaffolding (new change in a bare dir, non-interactive init) now
creates the complete healthy shape - specs/, changes/archive/, and a
minimal config.yaml - so doctor calls the result ok instead of
unhealthy.
P3 - the malformed-pointer warning on real roots names the file; the
declared-pointer unknown-store fix is reshaped for the actual mistake
(register the store or edit the named config - the user never passed
--store); the store-register-at-code-repo fix offers repo register;
archive not-found lists available changes like its status sibling.
Vocabulary - the legacy ChangeStatus.initiative passthrough is gone
from every surface (status JSON/human, instructions XML, apply text);
the metadata schema still PARSES stored links (user-data tolerance,
pinned by the flipped legacy tests: tolerated, not re-emitted).
Full suite green (97 files, 1716 tests).
* Capstone: technical audits done (6.1)
Single-resolver invariant HOLDS: one precedence implementation, nine
command entry points through it, doctor/init extra walks verified as
post-resolution diagnostics and scaffold guards; one latent
unreachable fallback queued for deletion. Dependency direction HOLDS:
zero core->commands/cli imports. Dead-code sweep over the 213-file
delta: no P2s, five P3s queued, four notes recorded (incl. the ext::
transport status: zero occurrences, the shell-safe gate and
team-committed trust boundary hold). Module sizes bounded (largest
1,160 lines). docs/agent-contract.md committed - every JSON shape,
the diagnostic envelope, failure payloads, the exit-code contract, and
the full diagnostic-code catalog verified against emitting code, with
14 consistency findings; the gauntlet-grade one (several --json
failure paths emit no JSON document) is queued for the gauntlet fix
round. Net LOC vs origin/main: src -4,478, test -325 - net-negative
as the roadmap expected.
* Capstone: whole-delta gauntlet run - findings ledger (6.1)
Four mechanisms over origin/main...HEAD: /code-review at max effort
(all 12 verified candidates CONFIRMED, most live-reproduced), a
32-agent adversarial Workflow (six lenses, refute-style verification:
25 confirmed + 7 completeness gaps), a codex whole-delta review
(FIX-FIRST), and the audits' queued items. Consolidated: 2 P1 (the
~/openspec layout turning $HOME into a phantom nearest root that
captures every lifecycle command under the home tree; status/
instructions --json errors emitting no JSON document), 13 P2 (the
JSON-failure-contract family, the --store-path seam, doctor's
up-walking origin probe, the stale registry lock, config-only
half-scaffolds, prompt-injection via verbatim hostile strings, five
more accepted specs requiring deleted behavior, stale planningHome
guidance in generated skills, a syntactically-broken zsh completion
script, store-remove delete-before-commit, the setup TOCTOU pair, the
orphaned-.git empty-clone path, the metadata rollback race), and a
triaged P3 set split into queued-cheap vs recorded-for-report. The
gauntlet box ticks only when every P1/P2 is fixed and re-verified.
* Fix every gauntlet P1/P2 plus the cheap P3 set (6.1)
P1: the nearest-root walk now skips openspec/ directories that are
neither planning-shaped nor configured - the recommended ~/openspec
store layout no longer turns $HOME into a phantom root that captures
every command under the home tree (regression test: the
registered-store hint fires instead). status/instructions/list/show/
validate --json failures all emit exactly one JSON status document
(JSON-aware shared failure helper; the stray blank stdout lines are
gone; store <unknown subcommand> --json emits a typed document; list
carries its null-shape).
P2: doctor/context gain the --store-path rejection seam; doctor's
origin probe is guarded by isGitRepositoryAtRoot (no more enclosing-
repo origins or spurious divergence notes); the registry lock steals
orphans older than 30s, names the lock path in the busy fix, and
reports permission problems as what they are; change scaffolding
completes the root shape for config-only roots and records the project
default schema, never a one-change --schema override; hostile-content
renders are sanitized at the index/render boundary (spec ids,
summaries at index time, remotes in targets and divergence messages -
control characters can no longer forge instruction lines); the five
remaining workspace-requiring accepted specs got the bounded excision
(all 36 validate); status JSON carries planningHome again (the
generated skills' published archive contract - restored rather than
rewriting eleven template references); the zsh completion generator
uses the correct quote idiom (generated script now passes zsh -n);
store remove commits the registry removal BEFORE deleting files (a
failed deletion degrades to a store_files_left_on_disk warning, never
a phantom registration); setup re-asserts directory facts at execute
(store_setup_path_changed) killing the stale-kind recursive-rm TOCTOU;
the half-made .git cleanup no longer hides behind the created-paths
ledger (no more commitless-store reruns); the metadata rollback
re-reads the registry and never deletes metadata a committed
registration depends on.
P3 (cheap set): CommonMark-correct fence tracking in purpose
extraction; the stale-target sweep requires a DIRECTORY; pretty JSON
for empty list; the declared-pointer repo-id fix names the config
file; absolute change location when the root is not the cwd; docs
fixes (affected_areas legacy wording, --remote in the setup table,
vibe in --tools, the real list output example); agent-contract.md
updated to match (planningHome restored, the failure-contract claim
now true).
Test pins updated deliberately: the store --json hint, the remove
ordering contract, the zsh escaper, the truncation corpus (summaries
now cap at index time, so the budget trips on count).
Full suite green (97 files, 1717 tests).
* Capstone complete: gauntlet passed, release-readiness report committed (6.1)
All 15 gauntlet P1/P2 fixes re-verified live (the JSON-contract codes
on show/validate/status/instructions/store, the --store-path seam on
doctor, the stale-lock steal, the config-only scaffold completion, the
phantom-root regression). The gauntlet ledger marks every finding
fixed. The release-readiness report lands with the five-minute
new-user story (2 commands, 2 concepts, proven cold by a headless
agent), the full audit results, the 18-entry autonomous-decision
ledger, and known gaps mapped to Later Ideas - no open P1/P2 findings
anywhere. Every queue item's roadmap boxes are ticked except Merged to
main, which this run deliberately does not perform.
Full suite green (97 files, 1717 tests); 36 accepted specs validate.
* Fix the phantom-root regression test's environment dependence
The G1 test omitted globalDataDir and never registered a store, so it
passed locally only by accident (it saw this machine's REAL registry)
and failed on the clean CI runner, where the empty registry correctly
fell through to the implicit root. The test now registers a store in
its isolated registry and passes globalDataDir, making the
no_root_with_registered_stores expectation deterministic everywhere.
Full suite green (97 files, 1717 tests).
* Record the user-directed workset correction (post-capstone review)
* Record 4.2 personal worksets with FR1; supersede the change-anchored direction
* Record 4.2 FR2: tool opening with the two-style extensible opener pattern
* Flesh out 4.2 personal worksets as a full roadmap item with its goal run
* Renumber personal worksets to Phase 7 item 7.1
* Add the 7.1 capstone dogfood and branch-push steps to the goal run
* Add the 7.1 personal-worksets research checkpoint
Evidence base for the spec: the f858c19^ opener archaeology (two-style
launch split, PATH/PATHEXT scan, cross-spawn handoff mechanics, the
not-to-inherit ledger), current-tree idioms (registry lock/atomic-write,
the pure .code-workspace builder, the @inquirer house rules, JSON
contracts), and live CLI verification of code/cursor/claude/codex flag
spellings and hazards.
* Windows-compatibility pass per test/AGENTS.md
A two-sided audit of the whole delta (production code and tests)
against the cross-platform rules, with every finding fixed:
Production: extractFirstPurposeLine splits on \r?\n (CRLF checkouts -
the Git-for-Windows default - previously got empty summaries for every
referenced spec); the clone-recipe fix quotes for the rendering
platform (single quotes are literal characters in cmd/PowerShell -
win32 now gets double quotes); the registry path-comparison fallback
resolves nonexistent paths instead of raw string-comparing them; the
manual-deletion fix drops its POSIX-only rm -rf; repo register expands
~ via the same expandUserPath every store command uses.
Tests: the onboarding e2e no longer depends on HOME (USERPROFILE set
alongside), declares its local remote in shell-safe forward-slash
form, pins the platform-correct quote style, and executes the fix via
argv arrays instead of split(' ') re-tokenization (paths with spaces);
the store-references normalizer matches the JSON-escaped needle
(serialized Windows paths double their backslashes); the
metadata-path assertion uses path.join; snapshot keys are
POSIX-normalized in the shared helper and both local copies.
Audited clean: registry/conflict path identity (canonicalized both
sides via realpathSync.native), cross-drive path.relative guards,
getGlobalDataDir's win32 branches, git invocations (argv arrays),
the lock and atomic-write semantics, XDG isolation, fetch-recipe
splits (no paths), and the deliberate-POSIX display literals.
CI: the OS test matrix (linux/macos/windows) previously ran ONLY on
push to main - it now also runs on workflow_dispatch so branches can
get a real Windows verification before merge.
Full suite green locally (97 files, 1717 tests).
* Make the clone-fix unit pin platform-aware
The references.test.ts pin asserted the POSIX single-quote form; the
implementation now deliberately renders double quotes on win32 - the
one remaining windows-pwsh matrix failure. The doctor/context pins are
quote-agnostic (stringContaining on the unquoted prefix) and the
onboarding e2e was already platform-aware.
* Write the 7.1 personal-worksets spec; fold the dual spec review
Subagent: approve-with-fixes; codex: reject (converging). The P1 -
attach-dirs argv now carries one attach pair per member, primary
included, per the locked FR2 wording. Folded: no-tool open path,
stale-saved-tool rule, signal exit contract, the hand-edit parse
contract, pinned JSON envelopes (incl. the open --json typed
rejection), derived-file locking with ENOENT-tolerant remove, the
teammate scenario, the win32 availability matrix, and opener-config
touchpoints. Research+spec roadmap box ticked; changelog entries added.
* Write the 7.1 personal-worksets plan; fold the dual plan review
Subagent: approve-with-fixes; codex: reject (converging). The shared P1:
open now regenerates the .code-workspace under the lock BEFORE tool
resolution, so every fallback names an existing current file. Also
folded: real busy-error factory sites with new byte-shape pins (the
suite never covered the lock mechanics), withWorksetsLock, cross-spawn
import shape, the --member collector, injectable-spawn units for
SIGINT/launch-failed, in-process cancellation coverage with enumerated
capstone carve-outs, the win32 stat-seam fixture strategy, the recorded
TOCTOU, anchor drift fixes, and the spec d12 amendment dropping the
dead workset_create_cancelled code.
* 7.1 CP1: worksets core, opener table, shared file-state mechanics
src/core/file-state.ts extracts writeFileAtomically and the lock-acquire
loop from store foundation (errors stay caller-owned via the injected
factory; store shapes pinned byte-identical by new tests - the suite
never covered the lock mechanics before). src/core/worksets.ts: the
saved-views file under <dataDir>/worksets/ on the registry idiom (strict
zod + version 1, hand-edit parse contract, withWorksetsLock
read-without-write, pure rebuilds, the .code-workspace builder).
src/core/openers.ts: the locked built-in table, per-field config merge
over built-ins, the PATH/PATHEXT availability scan with an injectable
stat seam, and the pure two-style launch-command builder (one attach
pair per member, never a positional). GlobalConfig gains the openers
key. 42 new unit tests; full suite green (99 files, 1759 tests).
* 7.1 CP2: the workset command group, registration, docs, and tests
src/commands/workset.ts: create (guided 3-step wizard / non-interactive
--member collector with name=path labels), list, open (regenerate the
.code-workspace under the lock before any tool resolution so every
fallback names a current file; cross-spawn handoff with honest
exit-code and 128+signal propagation; the Open manually: block on every
cannot-drive failure; hidden --json rejected as one typed JSON
document), remove (plan-then-confirm, --yes, ENOENT-tolerant derived
cleanup under the lock), and the command:* unknown-subcommand handler.
isPromptCancellationError extracted to shared-output (third copy).
CLI + completions registration, the docs/cli.md section and table rows,
the resurrected path-env helper, the fake-tool recorder, 34 command
tests (incl. in-process launch mechanics and interactive-cancellation
coverage via mocked prompts), and the two e2e journeys (no-footprint +
teammate isolation). Full suite green (101 files, 1795 tests).
* Tick 7.1 implementation and tests boxes; record the implementation round
* 7.1 review round: fix all converged P2s from the three review mechanisms
Spec-compliance (compliant-with-fixes), /code-review seven-angle
fan-out, and codex (approve-with-fixes) converged with no P1s.
Behavioral: structural open-fallback rule (surviving members, every
post-regeneration failure except cancellation), the primary-
reassignment note, honest zero-tools message, pasteable launch-failed
alternative, post-save Ctrl-C declines instead of cancelling, parent
signal guard during launch (the 128+n contract was unreachable for tty
SIGINT), sync spawn throws wrapped, tool.cmd PATHEXT double-append
removed, bare workset --json keeps the one-document contract,
deadline-bounded lock stat failures, remove cleanup after the durable
write, early flag-member validation, lazy cross-spawn (~6ms per CLI
invocation). Structure: command layer split (workset / prompts /
input); shared homes for formatZodIssues, folderStyleNameProblem,
KEBAB_ID_FIX, pathIs*; cancellation lifted into emitFailure with
store collapsed onto it. Tests: +6 cases, controlled PATH for the
in-process interactive suite, win32 path-env key fix. Spec amended to
the shipped contracts. Full suite green (101 files, 1799 tests).
* 7.1 simplify pass: collapse the parallel mechanisms the reviews queued
makeLockErrorFactory in file-state (both lock-error factories were
data-twins; store shapes stay byte-pinned), optsWithGlobals over the
hand-rolled group-option merge, the prompt preview ladder flattened
with one assertKnownTool spelling, asErrorMessage hoisted to
shared-output, formatMemberRows deduping three renderers, per-branch
opener resolution in open (dead branch + redundant re-scan gone),
serialize emits validated entries directly, toWorkset dedup, remove
--yes skips the duplicate pre-read, KEBAB_ID_FIX adopted, dead exports
trimmed. Skips recorded (store-group fallback convergence queued for
the next store touch). Full suite green (101 files, 1799 tests).
* 7.1 capstone dogfood passes; transcript committed, box ticked
Scripted walk (both launch styles, exact argv incl. the no-prompt
rule, strand-test fallback, missing-member skip, safe remove,
byte-untouched members), the interactive wizard from a real pty, live
cancellation, and the cold-start headless agent reaching an opened
workset from --help alone. No product findings. Full suite green
(101 files, 1799 tests).
* Close 7.1: pushed-branch box ticked, glance and pointer finalized
* Fix the Linux-only CI failure in the workset launch-failure test
The fixture was a shebang-less text file: macOS posix_spawn rejects it
with ENOEXEC (the spawn error the test wants), but glibc execvp
retries ENOEXEC via /bin/sh, so on Linux the child runs and exits 127
instead of erroring. A shebang pointing at a missing interpreter fails
ENOENT on every POSIX libc with no shell fallback; a garbage
claude.exe covers the win32 matrix leg the same way. Verified in a
node:20 Linux container (old fixture reproduces exit 127; full workset
file passes with the fix) and on macOS (full suite, 1799 tests).
* Add the stores beta user guide
A problem-first guide for the new surface (stores, references,
targets, repo map, doctor, context, worksets) under docs/stores-beta/,
mirroring the old workspaces-beta layout. Built around two team
stories — one team sharing a planning repo, and requirements crossing
team lines — with every command output captured from a live walk of
the current build in isolated scratch state. Carries the beta notice
(shapes may change), the verified resolution-precedence table, known
limitations including the one-checkout-per-store-id rule and the
commands that stay cwd-based, and the real on-disk state locations.
Linked from the README, getting-started, and the cli.md stores
section, which gains the same beta note.
* Carry the beta note on the worksets section of the CLI reference
The note at the top of the Stores section names worksets but is
invisible to a reader deep-linking straight to Personal worksets.
* Fix store --json missing-subcommand output
* Disable CLI-agent workset openers by default
* Remove targets and repo map commands
* Update simplify-context docs after removing targets
* Harden store-root test isolation
* Remove generated review HTML artifacts
* Refresh PR cleanup evidence
OpenSpec Work
This directory is an experimental home for Git-native work artifacts.
The current experiment separates the work model into four layers:
goal -> roadmap -> slice -> result
goal.mddescribes the destination: what we are trying to make true and why.roadmap.mddescribes the current path toward that goal. It is expected to change as implementation reveals better sequencing.slices/<id>/spec.mddescribes one small desired outcome.slices/<id>/plan.mddescribes how that slice will be implemented and verified.slices/<id>/result.mdrecords what actually happened and the evidence that the slice passed, failed, or needs follow-up.slices/<id>/log.mdis optional. Use it only when important changes need a short explanation of what changed, why, and what downstream artifacts were affected.
The goal is to keep high-level work lightweight while still giving agents and humans enough structure to move one slice at a time.
Rule of thumb:
spec.md says what must be true.
plan.md says how we intend to get there.
result.md says what actually happened.
Shape
openspec/work/
README.md
<work-id>/
goal.md
roadmap.md
slices/
<slice-id>/
spec.md
plan.md
result.md
log.md
Workflow
Start with the goal, then maintain a loose roadmap. The roadmap is a living sequence of likely slices, not a promise to execute everything in order.
For each slice:
- Explore and interview until the slice has a useful
spec.md. - Generate
plan.mdonly when the spec is clear enough to implement. - Execute the plan.
- Record proof, verification output, and follow-ups in
result.md. - Update
roadmap.mdwhen the result changes the path forward.
Revision Rules
Edit spec.md when the desired slice outcome changes.
Edit plan.md when the implementation path changes but the slice outcome is
still the same.
Create or update result.md when implementation or verification has happened.
Do not use it as the source of truth for current intent.
Add log.md entries when a meaningful pivot would be hard to understand from
the final files alone.
Create a new slice when the new work can be accepted, scheduled, verified, or shipped independently.
Compatibility
This directory is experimental. Current OpenSpec CLI validation, archive, and
spec update behavior still centers on openspec/changes/ and
openspec/specs/.
Use /work to coordinate and learn. When a slice needs today's executable
OpenSpec lifecycle, project that slice into a normal openspec/changes/<id>/
artifact until /work has first-class CLI support.