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Risk: low. Prompt text only. No CLI behavior, schema, artifact format or architecture changes.

What was wrong

The propose workflow didn't read config.yaml project context until artifact instructions were requested — which happens after the change is created. Agents explored the codebase and made early planning decisions without constraints the project had already stated.

What changes

The propose skill and slash command now resolve the project or store root and read its existing config.yaml/config.yml context before exploring the codebase or creating the change.

Why it's safe

  • Fresh directories keep their existing implicit-root behavior.
  • Invalid or unavailable stores still stop safely rather than silently falling back to the current directory.
  • Context is applied only when it parses as a YAML object and is a string under 50KB — the same limits the config already enforced.
  • Project context stays data, not authority: it can't override the planning-only boundary or tool restrictions.

Proof

A regression that fails on main because neither proposal surface has the early step. 221 focused template/config/root/store tests, plus 1,205 across the wider template and adapter suite. CI green on all three platforms.

Closes #1651

Merge note: touches the same generated files as #1658 and #1660. Whichever lands second needs pnpm generate:skills && pnpm regen:parity-hashes.

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The 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.

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Propose context loading

Layer / File(s) Summary
Load context before planning
skills/openspec-propose/SKILL.md, src/core/templates/workflows/propose.ts
Both propose workflows run openspec context, resolve the root, read project configuration, apply its bounded context, and renumber later steps. The command prompt references only /opsx:apply.
Validate generated workflows
test/core/templates/propose.test.ts, test/core/templates/skill-templates-parity.test.ts
Tests verify context ordering, configuration validation, restricted no_openspec_root fallback handling, and updated SHA-256 hashes.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to c4392

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.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ProposeWorkflow
  participant OpenSpecContext
  participant ProjectConfig
  participant Planning
  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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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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- Line 47: Update the context-resolution workflow around openspec context so
invalid or unavailable explicitly selected stores terminate the workflow
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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
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Bumps the github-actions group with 1 update: [dorny/paths-filter](https://github.com/dorny/paths-filter).


Updates `dorny/paths-filter` from 4.0.2 to 4.0.3
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Bumps the website-dependencies group in /website with 4 updates: [fumadocs-core](https://github.com/fuma-nama/fumadocs), [fumadocs-ui](https://github.com/fuma-nama/fumadocs), [next](https://github.com/vercel/next.js) and [@types/node](https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/tree/HEAD/types/node).


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34 test files spawn the real CLI across ~62 call sites. Each spawn runs
the preAction hook exactly like a user invocation, so a local `pnpm test`
persisted an anonymousId into the developer's real global config
(~/.config/openspec/config.json) and POSTed a command_executed event per
spawn to the telemetry endpoint.

CI never saw this because CI=<truthy> already disables telemetry; it only
happens on contributor machines, where it also skews the maintainers'
usage data with test traffic.

Set OPENSPEC_TELEMETRY=0 / DO_NOT_TRACK=1 via vitest's env so workers and
the CLI children they spawn are both covered. Telemetry's own tests
delete these vars before asserting, so they are unaffected.
console.log put the notice on stdout, so any non-JSON command (e.g.
spec show, change show) had it prepended to raw/passthrough output on
a fresh machine with no prior telemetry config — breaking pipes and
consumers expecting exact file content. --json mode already avoided
this by deferring the notice; stderr fixes it for every mode at the
source instead of special-casing each one.
)

* chore(deps): migrate to @inquirer/prompts v8 + @inquirer/core v11

Bumps both packages together. The two Dependabot attempts each moved one
half (#1450 prompts->8, #1422 core->11) and failed: prompts@8 pulls
checkbox@5 -> core@^11, while package.json depends on core@^10 directly
for two custom prompts, so a one-sided bump leaves two copies of
@inquirer/core in the tree — custom prompts on v10 internals alongside
bundled prompts on v11.

Resolves the `instructions` removal in checkbox v5 by dropping the
option: the built-in keys help tip now renders a superset of the hint
that was being passed, so no theme override is needed.

Closes #1458

* fix(nix): regenerate pnpmDeps hash for the inquirer v8 lockfile

The pnpmDeps fixed-output hash is pinned to the contents of pnpm-lock.yaml,
so the inquirer v8/core v11 migration invalidated it and Nix Flake Validation
failed with 'pnpm failed to install dependencies'.

Regenerated against this branch's lockfile and verified: nix build .#default
completes (exit 0) through openspec-1.9.0.drv, not just past the fetch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Clay Good <hi@claygood.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
TabishB
TabishB previously approved these changes Aug 19, 2026
* fix(feedback): keep full reports in issue bodies

* fix(feedback): preserve report formatting
* fix(workflow): scaffold valid no-spec changes

* fix(workflow): normalize specs artifact paths
* fix(update): only suggest IDE restarts when needed

* test(update): cover restart hint edge cases
* feat(tools): add Zed Agent support

* fix(tools): detect Zed projects
* fix(profiles): install sync with archive workflows

* test(profiles): harden archive dependency coverage

* fix(config): preserve custom profile ownership
* fix(opencode): pass command arguments to workflows

* test(opencode): recognize existing argument placeholders

* test(opencode): harden argument generation

* test(opencode): cover commands-only upgrades

* test(opencode): verify repaired command content
* feat(init): add language option

* fix(init): harden language configuration

* fix(init): fail when language config cannot be written
* fix(archive): never dead-end a capability retirement

A change whose delta removes the last requirement a capability has
rebuilds the main spec empty, which can never validate. Archive already
knows retiring is the fix and names the `retire_capabilities: true`
marker that authorises deleting the spec - but only when the marker is
the single thing missing.

If the spec also holds a line the merge cannot account for (a `## Notes`
section, a comment under a requirement - both ordinary), that hint was
suppressed, and the hint that names such lines only spoke to authors who
had already set the marker. Neither fired, so the archive aborted on
"Spec must have at least one requirement" with no guidance at all: the
exact dead end the marker exists to close.

Archive now names the blocking content in that case. It deliberately
does not name the marker there - adding it would not have let this run
through, and the marker is only ever named when it really is the one
thing missing. Once the content is resolved, the rerun names the marker.

Closes #1696

* fix(archive): harden the blocked-retirement abort

Three follow-ups to the same message.

The blocking lines are authored spec content printed verbatim to a
terminal, so they now get the treatment `describeChangeName` already
gives a change directory name: control characters replaced, since a raw
CR could forge a line of its own and an ESC could redraw the screen.
Each line is bounded too - one very long line would push the way out of
the abort off the reader's screen - and the cut counts code points so it
can never leave half a surrogate pair. Both the declared and undeclared
branches share the helper, so the marker-declared abort that shipped
with #1484 is hardened with it.

The wording no longer claims retiring is "the way through". It is not,
in the one case this fires on that has a live requirement hiding in a
second `## Requirements` section: merging the sections fixes that spec
without deleting anything.

`openspec/specs/cli-archive/spec.md` records the behavior change - the
blocking lines are named whether or not the marker was declared, and the
marker is still named only when adding it would let the archive through.

* refactor(archive): drop a helper the revised wording made single-use

The marker sentence is said in one place again, so it goes back inline
rather than through a function that now has one caller. Also corrects
the comment above `emptiedByThisRun`: retiring is not the only fix in
every case it covers, which is exactly why the message stopped saying so.

* docs(openspec): record the change as a delta, not a direct spec edit

Both conventions exist in this repo's history, but the two most recent
behavior fixes (#1609, #1616) carry an `openspec/changes/` delta rather
than editing the main spec in place, which is also the workflow this
project asks of everyone else.

The delta reproduces the whole Capability Retirement requirement, so
archiving it drops no scenario. Verified by archiving into a scratch
copy of `openspec/`: the merged main spec differs from today's by
exactly the three added bullets.

* fix(archive): report an unhonorable marker alongside the blocking content

An author who set `retire_capabilities: yes-please` believes they have
authorised the deletion. Clearing the blocking content first, only to
then learn the marker was never read, is two aborts for one mistake.

The abort still never invites the marker to be added while content
blocks the retirement - it only reports the one already there. The spec
delta records that distinction, which the old bullet ("say nothing about
the marker") did not draw.

* style(archive): use one sentence for an unhonorable marker in both aborts

* fix(metadata): strip control characters from an unhonorable marker reason

Every reason a boolean change-metadata marker gives quotes something the
author wrote - a schema name, a parser message carrying one, a
filesystem error carrying a path - and two commands print it straight to
a terminal. A schema name carrying a raw ESC, with the marker set, put
that ESC on screen through `openspec archive`; `openspec validate`
prints the same reason.

Fixed at the source in `readBooleanMarker` rather than at either call
site, so no consumer has to remember. The reason still quotes the name
recognisably; only control characters are replaced.

Reported by CodeRabbit on #1699. Pre-existing on main, and this PR would
have added a second place it reaches the terminal.

* test(archive): fix a comment left behind by the reworded abort
clay-good and others added 5 commits August 19, 2026 20:19
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* fix(schema): resolve main-spec reads against the store-aware root

The spec-driven `specs` instruction named
`openspec/specs/<capability-path>/spec.md` — a cwd-relative path — for the
two operations that touch a capability's main spec: step 1 of the MODIFIED
workflow ("locate the existing requirement") and the edit that fixes a
leftover TBD Purpose.

When the change lives in a registered store, the main spec is under the
store root. Verified against one: `openspec instructions specs --store
mystore --json` returns `planningHome.root` pointing at the store while the
instruction sent the read to the working repo, where the capability does
not exist. Where a local capability happens to share the name it is worse
than a miss — the read succeeds against a different capability and step 2
copies the wrong requirement block into the delta, silently.

Both now use `<planningHome.root>/openspec/specs/...`, the root the same
JSON already returns, matching what sync-specs.ts and archive-change.ts
have said since they were written: use the store-aware root, not a
hardcoded repo path.

Guidance text only — no CLI, parser, or archive behavior changes. The two
remaining `openspec/specs/` mentions describe the shape of a capability
path rather than a file operation, and are left alone.

Closes #1702

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(schema): make the store-aware root unconditional, and prove it resolves

Two hardening findings.

The wording said the root "points at the store when a store is selected."
Verified across all four root configurations, that undersells it: a project
`store:` pointer (source `declared`) and a global default store (source
`global_default`) both resolve to the store with no `--store` flag passed.
An agent reading the old sentence could conclude the case did not apply to
it and fall back to a repo-relative path. It now says to always use the
field and not to reason about which case applies.

The test only pinned the placeholder text, which would still pass if
`planningHome.root` were renamed or the suffix were wrong. Added a guard
that substitutes the placeholder with a real resolved planning home and
asserts the composed path lands on an actual main spec. Mutation-tested:
inserting a path segment and renaming the field each fail it.

Verified end to end that the composed path exists under all three
store-selecting configurations, and under a plain local repo.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: compose the main-spec path from segments, not string substitution

The guard substituted `planningHome.root` into a template spelled with
forward slashes. On Windows that yields a mixed-separator path, so the
assertion passed because Node accepts forward slashes there rather than
because the path was built correctly. Windows CI was green either way;
this makes the construction right instead of merely tolerated.

The suffix is now captured on its own and joined to the root with
path.join, so the assertion uses native separators everywhere. All three
mutations (cwd-relative path, extra segment, renamed field) still fail
the guard.

Addresses CodeRabbit review on #1703.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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…tall script (#1704)

* fix(packaging): print the completions tip from the CLI, not a postinstall script

The package's only install script existed to print one line suggesting
`openspec completion install`. Shipping it made every `npm install -g`
emit an npm allow-scripts warning, and `npm approve-scripts` then failed
with ENOMATCH because it looks in the local project, not a global install
— so the warning looked like a packaging fault with no way to clear it.

The tip now prints once on the CLI's first run, recorded via a
`completionTipSeen` flag in the existing global config alongside the
telemetry notice's `noticeSeen`. It writes to stderr so it can never
contaminate piped stdout, and is suppressed under CI,
OPENSPEC_NO_COMPLETIONS=1, `--json` runs, and `openspec completion`
itself. The published package now ships no lifecycle scripts at all.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(completions): stop the first-run tip from corrupting global config

Adversarial review of the previous commit found it wrote a defaults-merged
config: `saveGlobalConfig({ ...getGlobalConfig(), completionTipSeen: true })`
stamped `profile: "core"` into every user's config.json on first run.
`migrateIfNeeded` treats a raw `profile` as "already migrated", so the
one-time profile migration would never run again — and `openspec update`
then deleted the user's installed workflow skills. Reproduced: 2 skill
directories removed where main reports "Migrated: custom profile with 8
workflows". The same write also overwrote an unparsable config with
defaults and made `openspec config list` report defaults as explicit.

The tip now reads and writes the raw config file and touches only its own
key, leaving an unreadable config strictly alone.

Other hardening from the same review:

- Suppress the tip for the hidden `__complete` resolver. Generated
  completion scripts call it on every Tab press with stderr discarded, so
  the one-shot tip was consumed where nobody could see it.
- Defer, never consume, when stderr is not a terminal. Agents and pipes
  drive this CLI far more often than humans do and would otherwise spend
  the tip into a log nobody opens.
- Skip the tip when completions are already installed. Previously the CLI
  advertised `completion install` to users who had run it — including on
  the very next command after installing. Adds `isInstalled()` to the
  bash/fish/powershell installers, mirroring the zsh one.
- Use the repo's `isCiEnvironment()` instead of a `CI === 'true'` string
  check, so `CI=yes`/`True`/`on` are as quiet as telemetry is.
- Move the call to `postAction` so the tip trails the command's output
  instead of pushing errors and `init`'s setup summary down the screen.
- Record before printing, so an unwritable config dir means silence rather
  than nagging on every run.

Tests: assert the message literal (mutation testing showed the message text
was the one unguarded behavior), the raw-write shape, corrupt-config
safety, the already-installed path, the defer policy, and an e2e case
pinning the non-TTY contract.

Docs: SECURITY.md no longer claims zero lifecycle scripts — `prepare` is
still declared and runs for git/directory installs; the registry-install
claim is the accurate one. `OPENSPEC_NO_COMPLETIONS` is now documented.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(completions): make the unwritable-config case portable to Windows

fs.chmodSync(dir, 0o555) does not stop a write on Windows, so this test's
unwritable condition never existed there: markTipSeen succeeded, the tip
printed, and windows-pwsh was the only failing job.

Occupy the config directory's path with a file instead. mkdirSync with
recursive: true tolerates an existing directory but throws on an existing
file on every platform, so the persist fails where a real permission error
would - before anything is printed. Also asserts the path is still a file,
so a partial write through the failure would be caught.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(completions): retire the first-run tip instead of advising a dead end

Second adversarial pass over the tip, covering the hardening commit itself.

- An undetected or unsupported shell now retires the tip quietly. It used
  to print, but `openspec completion install` exits 1 for exactly those
  users ("Shell 'tcsh' is not supported yet" / "Could not auto-detect
  shell"), so the one message they would ever get about completions sent
  them to a command that fails.
- `markTipSeen` re-reads the config immediately before writing and swaps
  the file in by rename. Deciding whether to show the tip costs a `ps`
  spawn plus a stat, and a sibling process writing config in that window
  got clobbered — on a first run that is exactly when telemetry mints
  `anonymousId`. Concurrent-process loss drops from 15/40 to ~2/40, and
  what now usually loses is the tip's own flag (it simply shows once
  more) rather than telemetry identity. The residual is the non-atomic
  read-modify-write shape shared with telemetry's own writer.
- `isInstalled()` uses stat().isFile(), so a directory at the install
  path no longer counts as an installed completion script.
- Documented what `isInstalled()` actually promises: the script file, not
  the profile sourcing line that bash and PowerShell also need. Callers
  deciding whether to *advertise* completions want the loose reading — a
  user whose profile config failed has already met the installer.
- Corrected a comment claiming the probe costs "one stat": detectShell()
  forks `ps` to read the parent process on every non-Windows run.

Tests: mutation testing found four surviving mutants — dropping
isCompletionRun from the defer policy, reverting isCiEnvironment to a
CI==='true' string check, failing closed on an undetected shell, and
neutering the non-object config guard (which lets a JSON array config be
rewritten as {"0":...}). All four now fail a test. Adds direct coverage
for the three new isInstalled() implementations, which had none.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(validate): stop `change validate` exiting past commander's postAction

`change validate` on a failing change called process.exit(exitCode). That
tears down before commander's postAction hook, which is the same trap the
`update` command documents 165 lines earlier: "exiting here would skip
commander's postAction hook, killing the telemetry flush mid-request".

A change that fails validation is a routine outcome, not an error, so this
silently dropped the telemetry flush and — since the completions tip moved
to postAction — the first-run tip for anyone whose first command was a
failing validate. Verified under a pty: before, the tip never printed and
completionTipSeen was never recorded; after, both happen and the exit code
is still 1 (validate() already sets process.exitCode, which Node honours at
natural exit — top-level `validate --all` has always relied on exactly
that). The existing e2e in validate-scenario-loss.test.ts pins the exit
code.

Also wraps the postAction tip in try/finally so the telemetry flush runs
even if the hint throws: program.parse() is synchronous, so a rejection
there has no catch above it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(tasks): include verification in generated plans

* test(tasks): enforce inline verification guidance

* fix(tasks): harden verification guidance

* test(tasks): verify every onboarding checkbox
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#	test/core/templates/skill-templates-parity.test.ts
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