fix(propose): load project context before planning - #1657
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe propose workflows now load the OpenSpec root and project configuration before schema selection, exploration, and change creation. The generated skill and command templates renumber later steps. Tests verify ordering, fallback handling, and updated content hashes. ChangesPropose context loading
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to This localized prompt-only workflow change loads project context earlier without altering CLI behavior or schemas; generated-file parity and relevant tests are reported as passing, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ProposeWorkflow
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ProposeWorkflow->>OpenSpecContext: Run openspec context --json
OpenSpecContext-->>ProposeWorkflow: Return authoritative root
ProposeWorkflow->>ProjectConfig: Read validated configuration
ProjectConfig-->>ProposeWorkflow: Return bounded context field
ProposeWorkflow->>Planning: Apply context before schema selection and change creation
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In `@test/core/templates/propose.test.ts`:
- Around line 75-87: Extend the assertions for contextSection in the propose
workflow test to require that the loaded config context is actually applied, not
merely read. Add an assertion matching the expected context-application behavior
alongside the existing config-path and ordering checks.
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Hardening follow-up: commit 143798f now preserves OpenSpec’s existing project-context validation contract. Early context is applied only from a parsed YAML object when the field is a string no larger than 50KB in UTF-8; invalid or oversized values are ignored. Build, lint, 221 focused tests, 1,155 adapter/template tests, all 29 generated command adapters, and a fresh packaged OpenCode initialization passed. Three independent adversarial reviewers report no remaining findings. A fresh hosted CI matrix is now running. |
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In `@skills/openspec-propose/SKILL.md`:
- Line 47: Update the context-resolution workflow around openspec context so
invalid or unavailable explicitly selected stores terminate the workflow
immediately. Do not fall back to unscoped commands or allow openspec new change
to resolve a different local root after such a failure; preserve the
no_openspec_root behavior only when no store-resolution error occurred.
- Line 49: Update the context-handling instruction in the proposal workflow to
state that the YAML context is limited to factual project constraints and may
guide codebase exploration and planning only. Explicitly prevent it from
overriding user authorization, workflow boundaries, tool restrictions, or output
rules, while preserving the existing validation and size-limit behavior.
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In `@skills/openspec-propose/SKILL.md`:
- Around line 47-49: Make the configuration-loading step conditional on context
returning a resolved root.path. When the result is only no_openspec_root, skip
reading config.yaml/config.yml and continue directly to the next workflow step
so openspec new change can resolve the implicit root; retain the existing config
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# Conflicts: # test/core/templates/propose.test.ts # test/core/templates/skill-templates-parity.test.ts
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The early-context goal is right, but this still tells a stateful global workflow to create an implicit OpenSpec root after no_openspec_root, and its test locks that behavior in. Please make the bare-repo path create nothing and offer initialization instead, while preserving selected local, legacy, pointer, and Store roots with executable coverage.
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Reviewed 2a07450e6. The rootless workflow now stops without writes and requires explicit initialization, while focused coverage preserves nested local, legacy, pointer, explicit Store, and default Store roots through creation and instructions. I reran 122 focused tests plus lint at the exact head; all passed.
Keeps both added describe blocks in propose.test.ts (project context from this branch, planning code inspection #339 from main) and regenerates the parity hashes and the shipped skills/ mirror. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Reviewed f05f6ff. The rootless path remains no-write and explicit-init only, selected roots and config precedence are preserved, and 125 focused tests pass at this head.
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…docs A store-only project whose `store:` line names a store this machine has not registered reports `"root": null` from `openspec list --json`, so the guard read a real OpenSpec project as uninitialized. The guard now checks for the `Declared in` status message first and shows the store error instead. A stale global defaultStore reports the same codes in unrelated repositories, which is why the message prefix, not the code, decides. Propose's context step from #1657 offered `openspec init` on `no_openspec_root` regardless of how the workflow was reached. It now defers to the project check, so an auto-selected propose skill stays silent. The changeset names both no-root branches, and the `new change --json` docs separate the initialized example from the verified `implicit` one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…it (Fission-AI#1787) * fix(skills): stop workflows from adopting a project that never ran init Generated skills and commands are installed once per machine and offered in every repository the agent opens, including ones with no OpenSpec at all. Nothing stopped the workflow there: root resolution falls back to an implicit root at the current directory, so `openspec new change` quietly creates `openspec/` in whatever repo the agent happened to be standing in (Fission-AI#1645). Two changes, both in the generated instructions: - Every workflow now carries a shared project check. Before the first step that writes, the agent reads `root.source` from `openspec status --json`; `implicit` (or a `No OpenSpec root found` error) means the project is not set up, and the agent stops and asks the user whether to run `openspec init`, target a store, or drop OpenSpec for that request. It may not initialize the project on its own or let a command create the root as a side effect. - Every deployed skill description now names OpenSpec. Hosts pick skills by description, and "Enter explore mode - a thinking partner..." reads as a generic offer in a repository that has never heard of OpenSpec. Closes Fission-AI#1645 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore(changeset): note the uninitialized-project guard Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(skills): let onboarding run init once the user asks for it The guard read as an absolute ban on `openspec init`, which contradicts the option it offers one sentence earlier and the onboard workflow's job. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(troubleshooting): explain an OpenSpec workflow starting in an unset-up project Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(skills): check the root with a command that never fabricates one `openspec status --json` demands --change once a project has changes, so the guard's own check could fail in exactly the projects it should wave through. `openspec list --json` answers in one shape everywhere: a root object when the project is set up, `root: null` both when nothing is set up and when only stores are registered. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(skills): pin the guard against every write, not the first fence CodeRabbit's point: checking only the first ```bash fence would miss a write outside a fence. Assert instead that nothing preceding the guard runs a command or writes, and that the guard sits directly under the store-selection guidance - both fail when the guard is moved down a workflow. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(new-change): say when the command had to create the root itself The generated workflows now check for a root before writing, but the guard is instructions - an agent that ignores it, or a human running the CLI directly, still turned an unset-up directory into an OpenSpec project without a word. Creating the root stays zero-config; it is no longer silent. Human output only: --json is unchanged, and `root.source` already carried the same fact for programmatic callers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(skills): tell agents the root check's non-zero exit is the answer `openspec list --json` exits 1 when there is no root. An agent that reads that as a broken CLI is one step from hand-creating `openspec/` instead, which is the failure the guard exists to prevent. Also drops a vacuous assertion: the notice test now checks that the note names the directory it created and that the change really landed there. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * style(skills): read the guard back and untangle its two 'in that case' clauses Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(skills): carry the store flag into the root check; pin the notice path exactly CodeRabbit, both valid: - With a store selected the store IS the root, so the check has to run as `openspec list --json --store <id>`. The store-selection paragraph above already says to append the flag to every command it lists, but leaving it implicit here invited a check against the wrong directory. - The notice assertion matched any `openspec/` suffix. It now pins the exact rendered path, and a new case runs the command from a subdirectory to show the note names the directory actually adopted (and that the repo above it is left alone). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: move the no-root contract to the canonical docs-lab pages alfred-openspec on Fission-AI#1787: docs-lab/README.md makes docs-lab/ canonical and the old docs/ tree legacy, and the canonical pages were stale in the two places the review named. - docs-lab/reference/cli.md, 'openspec new': documents the implicit-root notice after the 'Next:' line, with the exact output the CLI prints, that it goes to stdout and never appears with --json, and that JSON carries the same fact as root.source: implicit. Verified against a real run in an empty directory with an isolated HOME. - docs-lab/reference/skills.md: states the shared response and stop behavior once, above the index table, since it now holds for every skill: confirm the resolved root before the first write, stop when there is none, offer init, a store, or dropping OpenSpec, wait for the answer, never create openspec/ on its own. Drops the legacy docs/troubleshooting.md addition. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(skills): make the no-root answer depend on how the workflow was reached alfred-openspec's product call on Fission-AI#1787. One answer could not serve both arrivals: Fission-AI#1645 asks the workflow to get out of the way ('it can go through the normal general propose not the openspec'), while a user who typed the skill's name is owed an answer about OpenSpec. The guard now branches after the same `openspec list --json` check: - Auto-selected: the model picked this workflow without the user naming OpenSpec, naming the skill, or running its command. Drop OpenSpec and answer the request normally, with no setup question and no mention of OpenSpec. - Explicit OpenSpec request: stop before writing and ask whether to run `openspec init`, target a store, or continue without OpenSpec, then wait. Neither branch may create the root as a side effect, stated once for both. One text serves both surfaces rather than a command-only variant, because apply-change and onboard render a single body into the skill and the command alike; a command-only constant would mean threading a surface flag through bodies that deliberately have none (Fission-AI#1515). The bullets scope themselves instead, and a slash command is an explicit invocation, so only the ask branch can apply there. A test pins that branch reaching every generated opsx command. Four regressions: the auto-selected branch (asserting it does not mention `openspec init` or `--store`), the explicit branch, the explicit branch's presence in every command file, and the shared no-side-effect rule. docs-lab/reference/skills.md said every no-root invocation asks. It now carries the same two branches as scan anchors. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(skills): keep the root guard off store-only projects and fix its docs A store-only project whose `store:` line names a store this machine has not registered reports `"root": null` from `openspec list --json`, so the guard read a real OpenSpec project as uninitialized. The guard now checks for the `Declared in` status message first and shows the store error instead. A stale global defaultStore reports the same codes in unrelated repositories, which is why the message prefix, not the code, decides. Propose's context step from Fission-AI#1657 offered `openspec init` on `no_openspec_root` regardless of how the workflow was reached. It now defers to the project check, so an auto-selected propose skill stays silent. The changeset names both no-root branches, and the `new change --json` docs separate the initialized example from the verified `implicit` one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(skills): keep the root guard off projects with a malformed store line A config-only project whose `store:` line is malformed reports `"root": null` with an `Invalid store declaration in` message, not `Declared in`, so the project check read it as never initialized and would drop OpenSpec or offer `openspec init` there. The guard now names both prefixes, and a root-selection test pins that every declaration failure starts with one of them while a stale global defaultStore starts with neither. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(skills): check guard ordering in the skill body, not its frontmatter A skill's YAML frontmatter is metadata a host reads to choose the skill, not instructions the agent runs, so a description that quotes a command name must not trip the ordering check. Scope the scan to the text after the closing frontmatter delimiter; a command injected into the body ahead of the guard still fails. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Fixes applied; awaiting Alfred’s re-review. Not merged. This changes proposal workflow guidance, not CLI runtime behavior, schemas, or artifact formats.
What was wrong
Proposal planning loaded project context only when requesting artifact instructions, after change creation and potentially after exploring the codebase. The first revision also permitted implicit root creation in a bare repository, which Alfred correctly flagged as an unsafe default for a global workflow.
How it was fixed
The proposal skill and slash command resolve the selected root and load its config context before schema selection, exploration, or change creation. They preserve explicit store selection, prefer
config.yamloverconfig.yml, and validate context independently against the existing 51,200-byte UTF-8 limit. Project context cannot override authorization or the planning boundary.When
contextreportsno_openspec_root, the workflow now stops without writing files, offersopenspec init, and waits for the user to request initialization. It must check context again afterward. Other resolution failures also stop; schema discovery cannot fall back to the current directory.Existing local and legacy roots without config remain usable. Store pointers, explicitly selected stores, and the global default store keep their selected root. The shipped skill and parity hashes are regenerated, and a patch changeset tracks the fix.
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2a07450e6is green: Linux and macOS each pass 4,244 tests; Windows passes 4,177 with 67 platform skips. All required checks pass.Notes
The raw
openspec new changeCLI retains its existing behavior; this workflow now refuses to invoke it until a root resolves. Existing projects receive the updated guidance throughopenspec update. Final subagent review found no remaining actionable issue.Closes #1651