fix(explore): make the capture request the write confirmation - #1832
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Explore's write-confirmation rule named `openspec new change` as an action requiring a separate yes/no, while the capture branch told the agent to transition "seamlessly" into running it. Both readings were defensible, so the same request either wrote files immediately or stopped and asked. State the resolution in all three places: an explicit capture request is the confirmation, for the change and artifacts that request names. The guardrail keeps its teeth where #1715 reported the problem — an agent-proposed capture, or work beyond the requested scope, still asks. Closes #1828 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 10 included reviews per hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughExplore-mode capture guidance now treats an explicit user capture request as confirmation for the named change and artifacts. Agent-proposed captures and out-of-scope writes still require separate confirmation. Tests validate both templates and generated skill parity. ChangesExplore capture confirmation
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to This documentation-only change clarifies that an explicit capture request authorizes only the named change artifacts while preserving confirmation for proposed or out-of-scope writes. The reported parity and tests leave no actionable merge-blocking risk. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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…on gate Also disambiguate the scope fence in the IMPORTANT block: "the artifacts that request names" parses as a relative clause, and it is the sentence an agent weighs first. Match the article used by both restatements. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review passRan an adversarial review of this branch against six axes (remaining contradictions, carve-out width, template/skill parity, test quality, other drifting surfaces, changeset correctness). Two findings applied in Applied
Filed separately: #1833. Six doc pages state explore creates no artifacts, which the capture branch has contradicted since #668/#720. Pre-existing drift, but this PR removes the second confirmation prompt that used to sit between a user reading "it does not create a change folder" and one appearing. Docs-only, so kept out of this diff. Left as-is. The two modeled agent-initiated offers ( Clean on the rest. No remaining passage contradicts the carve-out — notably |
Four hardening findings from review of the first pass: - A yes to an offer the agent made looks identical to a user-initiated capture request at the point the branch decides. The discriminator sat 190 lines away in Guardrails. Move it into the branch, and require the offer to name what it would create. - "Do not ask for a second confirmation" contradicted step 2 nine lines below it, which requires asking before expanding the capture. Narrow it to re-asking for what was already asked for. - Scope the carve-out to change artifacts, so it cannot be read to reach the workflow configuration #1715 reported an agent editing. - The Guardrails bullet restated the whole contract a third time, in a quick-reference list whose next-longest entry is 43 words. Replace with a pointer to the branch that owns it. Tests: the three not.toContain guards could not see a gate phrased in words they did not anticipate. Replace with a structural check that collects every consent-bearing sentence and requires each to be sanctioned — inside the capture branch with no topic filter, since a gate written there is about the capture whether or not it says so. Mutation testing: kills 6 of 8 contradiction mutations that survived before, and all three sites stay independently pinned. The two survivors reverse the resolution without any consent word and are noted as review-only. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CodeRabbit follow-ups. - `docs/examples.md` and `docs-lab/start/quickstart.md` now carry the never-writes-code guarantee and scope capture to the planning artifacts you name, matching the other pages. - `splitSections` tracks the fence delimiter and its length, so a ```` block can quote ``` without the scanner closing at the inner one and reading fenced text as prose. Verified with a nested-fence probe in both directions. - The offender path is normalized to forward slashes and the pinned page list is built with `path.join`, so failure output and lookups read the same on Windows. - The positive test no longer passes on "the word capture appears somewhere": the sentence that introduces capture must also say it is the reader's call, so a regression to "explore captures every artifact automatically" fails. Not adopted: CodeRabbit also asked the docs to describe a separate confirmation step before any capture write. That is true of `main` today but is exactly what #1832 removes - there, an explicit capture request *is* the confirmation. The wording here ("unless you ask, or agree when it offers") is accurate under both, so pinning the current two-step flow would date the docs the moment #1832 lands. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@src/core/templates/workflows/explore.ts`:
- Line 38: Correct the named-artifact wording from “the change artifacts that
request names” to “the change artifacts the request names” in
src/core/templates/workflows/explore.ts lines 38-38 and 361-361, and update the
corresponding expected phrase in test/core/templates/explore.test.ts lines
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The previous commit reintroduced "the change artifacts that request names", the garden-path parse that 55eeac6 removed: read as a relative clause it says the artifacts name a request. Restore "the request names", matching both restatements. Caught by CodeRabbit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Hardening round: four parallel auditsRan four independent audits — prompt red team, maintainer-standards, test-quality/mutation, and distribution. Findings applied in Applied — three defects in my own first pass
Plus the guardrail restatement, which had grown that bullet to 137 words against a next-longest sibling of 43. It now carries one clause and a pointer to the branch that owns the contract — three sites, one canonical statement. Applied — my negative guard did not do what its comment claimed. Mutation testing broke it: eight of eleven mutations survived, including a full confirmation gate inserted directly above step 1 of the capture branch, phrased in ordinary English the three Also corrected: the previous PR body cited #1017 as an issue about capture-confirmation friction. It is a PR, and it is about focused discovery questions in planning. Removed. Confirmed clean
Deliberately out of scope, filed instead: #1833, #1836, #1837 (see Notes in the PR body). 15/15 checks green. |
The guide check matched any "capture", so "explore automatically captures every artifact" passed. Both explore.md and commands.md now must name the user trigger, `openspec new change`, and the named-artifacts scope, with no capture line claiming it happens unprompted, and keep "never writes code". Also scope the explore.md guarantee to the setup files a new change needs, and make the commands.md offer name the change and its scope, which the template asks for on main and after #1832. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Merge-order note with #1788: a trial merge conflicts in the IMPORTANT paragraph of both explore bodies and |
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Reviewed current head 9896705. An explicit capture request is scoped confirmation, while agent-proposed capture and scope expansion remain gated. Both delivery surfaces are pinned. Focused validation: 30 tests passed.
) * docs(explore): stop claiming explore never writes files Sixteen lines across both documentation trees told users that `/opsx:explore` creates no artifacts and writes no files, full stop. That has been false since explore shipped (Fission-AI#467): its capture branch writes the planning artifacts the user asked for, and can edit an existing change's artifacts. Fission-AI#1503 later made it scaffold with `openspec new change` first, closing Fission-AI#668 and Fission-AI#720. The claim appeared in two shapes. Six lines denied the capability outright ("Explore creates no artifacts and writes no code"). Ten more said the same thing as a timing claim ("before any artifact exists"), which reads as ordinary pitch copy and is what escaped the first pass. Every site now carries one guarantee, worded the same way: explore never writes code, and writes nothing else unless you ask, or say yes when it offers. Four sites described only the user-initiated trigger, which left the offer path - the one a reader actually hits - looking like it did not exist. docs/explore.md and docs/commands.md also gain a positive description of capture where the denial used to sit, including what scaffolding creates beyond the artifacts you named, and how capture differs from handing off to propose (propose writes the set your schema requires; capture writes only what you named). Closes Fission-AI#1833 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(docs): keep the retired explore wording retired A flat list of the phrasings that actually carried the claim, swept over the eleven pages that pitch explore. Fails on main with all sixteen offenders; clean on this branch. Modeled on test/vocabulary-sweep.test.ts, and deliberately a list rather than a grammar. An earlier draft built the grammar - section splitting, code-fence tracking, a conditional-marker exemption so "creates no artifacts unless you ask" would pass - and measured against realistic prose it was imprecise in both directions while returning the same verdict on the real input. The list has no exemption logic to get wrong, and any maintainer can extend it. Phrasings that are only wrong in the absolute ("writes nothing", "creates nothing") are left to review, since the conditional form of each is the wording the failure message recommends. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(docs): pin the explore capture contract, not the word The guide check matched any "capture", so "explore automatically captures every artifact" passed. Both explore.md and commands.md now must name the user trigger, `openspec new change`, and the named-artifacts scope, with no capture line claiming it happens unprompted, and keep "never writes code". Also scope the explore.md guarantee to the setup files a new change needs, and make the commands.md offer name the change and its scope, which the template asks for on main and after Fission-AI#1832. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(docs): accept negated unprompted-capture wording, catch non-capture verbs The unprompted check matched "automatically" on any capture line, so the correct "Explore does not automatically capture artifacts" failed, while "Explore automatically writes planning artifacts" was never scanned because it lacks the word capture. Check each clause of lines naming explore or capture for an unprompted write verb with no preceding negation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#1775 landed the same optional-workflow mechanism this branch introduced, so keep main's optional-workflow.ts and skill-generation.ts and carry only explore's handoffs onto it. Keep #1832's capture-request carve-out in the stance paragraph, reword 'never permission to implement' so #1832's consent guard does not read it as a new write gate, and regenerate the skills mirror and parity hashes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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LGTM. Guidance-only, both delivery surfaces and the committed skill are in parity, and the #1715 guarantee it interacts with is pinned by tests that already passed before this change.
What was wrong
openspec-exploregave two opposite answers for the same user turn, and did not say which governs.The write-confirmation rule, stated twice, named
openspec new changeas exactly the kind of action that needs a direct yes/no in a separate user message:The capture branch, in the same file, then said:
Steps 2–4 create artifacts with no confirmation gate either. So "capture this as a change" either scaffolded
.openspec.yamlplus several artifacts immediately, or stopped and asked — depending on which passage the agent weighed. The capture branch is the only path in explore mode that writes files, so leaving it ambiguous made the #1715 / #1716 guarantee unenforceable in the one case where it applies.How it was fixed
Option 1 from the issue: the capture request is the confirmation, said explicitly, with both of its limits stated in the branch that acts on them.
IMPORTANTstance paragraphDon't auto-captureguardrailopenspec new changewhenever you are the one proposing the capture — and points at the branch rather than restating the contract a third time.Option 1 rather than Option 2 because:
openspec/config.yamledit from that report even with a valid confirmation.Both delivery surfaces in
src/core/templates/workflows/explore.ts(skill body and/opsx:explorecommand body) carry identical wording;skills/openspec-explore/SKILL.mdwas regenerated withpnpm generate:skillsand the three explore parity hashes refreshed withpnpm regen:parity-hashes. No CLI code path changed.Proof it works
Eight test cases in
test/core/templates/explore.test.ts, each run against both bodies. Six pin the contract; two are structural.Reverting any one of the three sites to
mainfails the suite, so partial drift cannot slip through:The structural guard exists because
toContaincannot detect #1828's actual failure mode — a second, contradictory sentence, added while every pinned string stays present. It inverts the check: collect every consent-bearing sentence and require each to be one the resolution sanctions, with the topic filter dropped inside the capture branch (a gate written there is about the capture whether or not it says so). Mutation results:dandgreverse the resolution without using any consent word, so no lexical test can see them. That limit is stated in the test comment rather than left as an over-claim.test/core/templates/is 131/131. Build andpnpm lintpass. CI is green on linux, macos, and windows.Notes / nits
openspec/config.yaml, oropenspec/schemas/**.CORE_WORKFLOWS, so every default install has it, and all ~40 tool skill dirs plus 30 command adapters are written from these two template functions. A user on 1.13.0 gets the fix onopenspec updatevia thegeneratedByversion stamp.skills/is not in the npmfileslist by design — skills.sh reads it from the repo, and the committed copy is regenerated here./opsx:update, where step 4 says "Apply the requested edit" and step 5 says "Write only after the user confirms"), fix(templates): ff-change and onboard state ask-thresholds that contradict their own steps #1837 (ask-threshold inconsistencies inff-changeandonboard).Closes #1828
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