fix(guidance): teach the spec-inventory verb to generated guidance - #1700
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`openspec list --specs` appeared in no generated skill, command, or artifact instruction, while `openspec list --json` — the in-flight CHANGE list — appeared throughout. An agent asked to read the existing specs first reached for the one enumeration verb it had been taught, got the change list, found it plausible, and reported the step complete against the wrong object. Explore now lists the spec inventory alongside the change list and says which is which. The spec-driven `proposal` and `specs` instructions name the command at the two points that need it: researching existing capabilities before filling in the Capabilities section, and confirming a delta's path matches an existing capability. Guidance text only — no CLI, parser, or archive behavior changes. Closes #1689 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to This change updates generated guidance to name the existing spec-inventory command and does not alter CLI behavior; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Agent->>GeneratedGuidance: Follow explore or proposal instructions
GeneratedGuidance->>OpenSpec: openspec list --specs
OpenSpec-->>GeneratedGuidance: Specification inventory
GeneratedGuidance->>OpenSpec: openspec show "<spec-id>" --type spec --json --no-scenarios
OpenSpec-->>GeneratedGuidance: Capability details
Agent->>GeneratedGuidance: Request a write-capable action
GeneratedGuidance-->>Agent: Request separate scoped confirmation
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In `@schemas/spec-driven/schema.yaml`:
- Line 73: Update the “Modified capabilities” instruction to add conditional
--store "<id>" guidance to openspec list --specs when a registered standalone
store is selected, while keeping the local-root example bare. State that --store
is added only after confirming the registered store and must remain on
subsequent store-capable commands.
In `@test/core/templates/spec-inventory.test.ts`:
- Around line 40-78: Add exact-content assertions in the spec inventory tests
for the conditional --store "<id>" guidance and related --json wording across
the proposal instruction, modified-capability specs instruction, and both
explore surfaces. Extend the existing checks around instructionFor('proposal'),
instructionFor('specs'), and exploreBodies while preserving current command and
distinction assertions.
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A bare `openspec list --specs` reads the local inventory, so under a selected store it confirms a capability path against the wrong root. The proposal instruction carried the qualifier; the modified-capability instruction did not. All four sites now use the same wording, and the guard is scoped to the passage that names the command — every explore body already carries the qualifier in its unrelated capture steps, so a whole-body assertion would pass with it dropped here. Addresses CodeRabbit review on #1700. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Fixed in 68fb239 — both CodeRabbit findings were valid. Store qualifier. The proposal instruction carried it; the modified-capability instruction did not, which was a real inconsistency rather than a style nit — a bare Test coverage. Added, with one adjustment to the suggestion: a whole-body assertion would have been vacuous here, because every explore body already contains that phrase in its unrelated capture steps — the guard would stay green with the qualifier dropped from the new passage. The new case scopes the check to the passage that names the command. Verified it bites: stripping the qualifier from the specs instruction fails it, restoring it passes. Full suite re-run after the change: 3973 passed, same 2 pre-existing local-only failures that are green on CI. |
The read step I added defeated the fix under a store. It told the agent to list the inventory with `--store "<id>"`, then read the result back from `openspec/specs/<capability-path>/spec.md` — a local path. Verified against a registered store: `list --specs --store mystore` returns `store-only-capability`, and the corresponding local read fails outright (or, when a local capability happens to share the name, silently returns a different one). That is the same wrong-object failure #1689 is about, reintroduced one line later. Capabilities are now read with `openspec show "<spec-id>" --type spec --json --no-scenarios`, which resolves against the same root the listing came from and returns purpose plus requirement texts without pulling whole spec files into context. `--type spec` is load-bearing: a change and a spec sharing a name is an ambiguous_item error, and change names routinely mirror capability names. Also documents `--store` on `list` and `show` in docs/cli.md. Both already accepted the flag — the prose at line 228 says so — but neither options table listed it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This fixes the issue of ambiguous unicode character width when visualizing on terminals
Rebase onto main and close the gaps in the original fix: - Regenerate skills/openspec-explore/SKILL.md. The static skills/ mirror landed after this branch was cut, so the parity test would have failed with the template and the mirror out of sync. - Regenerate the three parity hashes through scripts/regen-parity-hashes.mjs. - Convert the ambiguous-width glyphs the first pass missed: the bullets in the CLI-storage example, and the check/cross marks in its comparison table, which sat in the column-aligned block the bug is about. - Tighten the ASCII guidance to two lines. It ships into every user project on both delivery surfaces, so the paragraph was pure overhead. - Add regression tests (#983): every fenced example in both the skill and the command body must be free of box-drawing, arrow, bullet, and check/cross glyphs, and the guidance must state the rule and the reason. - Add a patch changeset. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The matcher listed U+2713 and U+2717 only, so a fenced example could use ✕ (U+2715) or ✘ (U+2718) — same ambiguous width, same misalignment — and still pass. Widen to the U+2713-U+2718 run. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@test/core/templates/spec-inventory.test.ts`:
- Around line 121-129: Update the assertion in the spec-inventory test loop to
require that the openspec show command includes the conditional --store
relationship, ensuring the read command—not only a separate store
assertion—preserves store-aware behavior. Keep the existing --type spec --json
--no-scenarios requirements intact and validate the focused test.
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All three PRs edit the same explore template and its committed skills mirror, so their pinned parity hashes collide by construction. They land ahead of this branch in the release sequence; merging them here resolves the collision before the merge queue sees it, and contributes nothing to this PR's diff once they are on main. Hashes are regenerated in the following commit rather than resolved by hand. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The explore template now carries three independent guidance edits: the spec-inventory verb, the ASCII diagram conversion, and the write confirmation contract. Each pinned its own hash constants, so the pinned values no longer describe the combined template. Regenerate them from the merged source with `regen:parity-hashes` rather than hand-editing, and confirm the committed skills mirror still matches byte-for-byte. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Reviewed at 80b9031. The generated guidance now separates changes from the spec inventory and carries the selected Store through list and show, with real CLI coverage across local, explicit, declared, and default roots. Full CI is green.
Regenerates the parity hashes and the shipped skills/ mirror after the merge. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
docs-lab/README.md makes docs-lab/ canonical and the old docs/ tree legacy. docs-lab/reference/cli.md already documents `--store <id>` for both `openspec list` and `openspec show`, so this branch's docs/cli.md rows added a third copy in the stale tree and nothing else. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Merged Conflict. Only Dropped the The PR is now source and tests only. Verified at the pushed head: |
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The implementation and focused tests look good at 7d722f3, but the release note is stale. .changeset/teach-spec-inventory-verb.md still says docs/cli.md now documents --store on list and show, while this head deliberately removed that legacy-tree edit and the current PR diff does not change docs/cli.md. Please remove or rewrite that sentence so the published changelog does not claim a documentation change this PR does not make.
alfred-openspec on #1700: the release note still said docs/cli.md now documents --store on list and show, but that legacy-tree edit was removed from this head and the diff does not touch docs/cli.md. The canonical docs-lab/reference/cli.md already documented the flag on both commands, which is why the edit went. Removing the sentence rather than repointing it at docs-lab: nothing in docs-lab changed either, so there is no documentation change to announce. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@alfred-openspec Fixed in The sentence is removed rather than repointed, because there is no documentation change left to announce anywhere: I dropped the The rest of the note still describes what the PR does, and this PR needs no |
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Reviewed 3ddad96. The stale docs/cli.md claim is removed, the implementation remains unchanged from the previously verified head, and current CI is green.
Regenerates the explore parity hashes and the shipped skills/ mirror after the merge: #1700 landed its own explore changes, so the three explore entries in skill-templates-parity.test.ts conflicted on values only. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The packaged proposal template now opens with `# Proposal`, which `extractTitle` read as the change's title, so `show --json` and `change list --json/--long` titled every templated change "Proposal" instead of its id. Treat that bare heading as untitled. Also re-quote the proposal and specs instructions in the canonical docs-lab schema page after #1700 changed schema.yaml. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ssion-AI#1777) * fix(templates): open generated artifacts with a top-level heading Generated proposal.md, design.md, spec.md and tasks.md started on a section header, so every OpenSpec artifact tripped markdownlint MD041 ("first line in a file should be a top-level heading") in editors that run it. The files were also, literally, documents without a title. Each packaged template now opens with `# Proposal`, `# Design`, `# Spec Delta` or `# Tasks` followed by a blank line, and `openspec schema init` scaffolds custom templates the same way. The schema's own examples and the customization docs match. Titles are inert to every reader downstream: the parsers anchor on `##` and `###`, and archive builds a new main spec from the delta's sections, so the main spec keeps its own generated `# <capability> Specification` and only that one. Closes Fission-AI#1138 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(templates): compare template headings on normalized line endings The Windows runner checks out CRLF, so splitting the template on "\n" left the blank second line as "\r" and the new guards failed there while passing everywhere else. Normalize before splitting; verified against a CRLF copy of the templates locally. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(templates): pin each template to its own title Review feedback: the guards accepted any top-level heading, so a wrong title would have passed, and the archive check counted `# ` lines only, so a demoted `## Spec Delta` would have slipped through. Assert the exact heading per artifact, the blank line under it in both guards, and that no heading of any level named "Spec Delta" survives archive. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(workflows): teach the artifact titles everywhere the shape is shown The templates were only half the story. The onboarding walkthrough drafts each artifact in the conversation and then saves what it drafted, so its previews would have written untitled proposal.md, spec.md, design.md and tasks.md whatever the template said. The sync workflow's delta format reference had the same gap, sitting directly beneath a main-spec reference that does carry a title. Both now show the template's title, and `docs/opsx.md` no longer documents a `template` value the CLI never returned. Guards added: - The template guard now enumerates every artifact of every packaged schema from schema.yaml rather than a hardcoded list of four, and the exact-title table must name every artifact the schema declares. - A drift guard reads the titles out of the packaged templates and requires the onboard and sync surfaces to show those same titles, so guidance and template cannot part ways again. - Parser tests pin the claim the fix rests on: a title is inert, and a spec or proposal parses identically with and without one. Regenerated the skill mirrors and parity hashes for the two workflows touched; no other hash moved. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: move the artifact-title update to the canonical docs-lab tree The live site builds from docs-lab/, so the exact-format page there is the one readers see. It still showed all four templates opening on a section header and described the delta as starting with `## Purpose`. - reference/schemas/spec-driven/index.md: each template block now matches the shipped template byte for byte, and the quoted spec/tasks instructions match schema.yaml again. - customize/schemas.md: one line telling fork authors to keep the `#` title on the first line. Reverts the edits to docs/customization.md and docs/opsx.md: that tree is no longer published and docs-lab/README.md keeps it as source material only, so editing it would leave two versions of the same fact. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(show): keep the change id as title for a bare `# Proposal` heading The packaged proposal template now opens with `# Proposal`, which `extractTitle` read as the change's title, so `show --json` and `change list --json/--long` titled every templated change "Proposal" instead of its id. Treat that bare heading as untitled. Also re-quote the proposal and specs instructions in the canonical docs-lab schema page after Fission-AI#1700 changed schema.yaml. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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762cca222and ready for renewed human review. All CI checks pass; human approval is still required. Not merged.What was wrong
Generated guidance taught agents to enumerate active changes but never named
openspec list --specs. Agents researching existing capabilities could inspect the change list instead, miss established requirements, and invent duplicate capabilities.Further design review found that the proposed filtered read omitted scenarios, which can contain behavior absent from requirement summaries. Treating that overview as complete research could still lead to incorrect coverage decisions.
How it was fixed
Explore and the spec-driven proposal/specs instructions now name the spec inventory and distinguish it from active changes. Agents use
openspec show "<spec-id>" --type spec --json --no-scenariosfor an overview, then read relevant specs in full withopenspec show "<spec-id>" --type specbefore deciding coverage or changes. Both reads retain the selected store.Merged current main, resolved template parity conflicts, and removed two already-released changesets inherited from earlier stacked PRs.
Replication / proof
cli-showspec; the raw read preserves its complete content.Notes / nits
Low risk: guidance, documentation, and tests only. No CLI runtime, architecture, or workflow-permission changes. A structural comparison confirms artifact IDs, templates, generated paths, dependencies, and apply rules match main. One patch changeset remains.
An earlier local full-suite run encountered host-global MiniMax profile contamination and sandbox restrictions on HTTP fixtures. The profile failures reproduce on unchanged main and pass with an isolated user profile; all 48 version-check tests pass with local port permission. Clean CI passes the full suite without those local workarounds.
Closes #1689