fix(workflows): create the main spec when a capability is new - #1701
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The agent-driven archive workflow told agents to "compare each delta spec with its corresponding main spec" and said nothing about the case where that main spec does not exist yet. Comparing against nothing reads as "already synced", so the agent took the archive branch and the new capability's main spec was never written — the change landed in changes/archive/ with openspec/specs/ still empty. `openspec archive` already handles this: buildUpdatedSpec creates the spec from the delta's ADDED requirements, rejects MODIFIED/RENAMED with "only ADDED requirements are allowed for new specs", and warns past REMOVED. The guidance now says the same thing, so the agent path and the CLI path agree: - archive-change: a missing main spec counts as changes needed and is named in the summary as a spec the sync will create — never as already synced. - sync-specs: MODIFIED and RENAMED have no requirement to act on when the main spec is absent, so the sync stops and reports rather than inventing one; REMOVED is skipped with a warning. Guidance text only — no CLI, parser, or archive behavior changes. Closes Fission-AI#1222 Closes Fission-AI#1264 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 PR clarifies how new capabilities are archived so their main specifications are created instead of omitted. The change is limited to guidance and documentation, with no actionable merge-blocking risk remaining after normal checks and review. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Archive as Archive workflow
participant Sync as Sync workflow
participant Specs as Main specs directory
Archive->>Sync: assess missing main spec and delta operations
Sync->>Specs: create spec from ADDED requirements
Sync-->>Archive: report unsupported or no-ADDED deltas
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test/core/templates/skill-templates-parity.test.ts (1)
450-499: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winTest the no-write and no-empty-spec invariants.
The test checks selected phrases, but it does not verify the later new-spec creation step. It can pass while a
REMOVED-only delta creates an empty spec or whileMODIFIED/RENAMEDcreates a spec after synchronization stops. Add assertions for supportedADDED, blockedMODIFIED/RENAMED, and skippedREMOVEDcases in both template variants.As per coding guidelines, run
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In `@src/core/templates/workflows/sync-specs.ts`:
- Around line 100-106: Apply one missing-main-spec guard across all listed
sites: in src/core/templates/workflows/sync-specs.ts lines 100-106 and 369-375,
create a spec only when applicable ADDED requirements exist and no MODIFIED or
RENAMED entries block synchronization; warn and skip REMOVED-only or empty
deltas. In src/core/templates/workflows/archive-change.ts lines 99-101 and
282-284, report creation only for supported ADDED deltas. Update
openspec/specs/specs-sync-skill/spec.md lines 78-84,
openspec/specs/opsx-archive-skill/spec.md lines 85-92,
skills/openspec-sync-specs/SKILL.md lines 98-104, and
skills/openspec-archive-change/SKILL.md line 97 to document the same no-write
rule and conditional archive summary.
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In `@test/core/templates/skill-templates-parity.test.ts`:
- Around line 450-499: Extend the parity test in the existing archive and sync
variant loops to assert the later new-spec creation behavior: allow creation
only for ADDED requirements, block creation for MODIFIED and RENAMED-only
deltas, and skip creation for REMOVED-only deltas. Scope each assertion to the
relevant template step and apply the checks to both skill and command variants,
preserving the existing sync-assessment and read-step assertions.
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CodeRabbit caught a gap in the previous commit: step 4b now tells the agent
a REMOVED-only delta has nothing to remove, but step 4d still read as
"create the main spec if the capability doesn't exist yet" unconditionally.
Following both would write a spec whose `## Requirements` section is empty.
Verified against the CLI on a REMOVED-only delta targeting a capability with
no main spec:
Specs to update:
parking: create
⚠️ Warning: parking - 1 REMOVED requirement(s) ignored for new spec.
Validation errors in rebuilt spec for parking (will not write changes):
✗ Spec must have at least one requirement
Aborted. No files were changed.
So step 4d is now gated on the delta having ADDED requirements to seed the
spec with, and says what the CLI reports when it does not.
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Good catch on the missing-spec creation guard — that was a real gap in the first commit, and I've fixed it in f55ba15. The finding was valid. Step 4b told the agent a REMOVED-only delta has nothing to remove, but step 4d still read as "create the main spec if the capability doesn't exist yet" unconditionally. Following both instructions in sequence would have written a spec with an empty I verified what the CLI actually does in that case before writing the guidance, with a REMOVED-only delta against a capability that has no main spec: So the CLI refuses and writes nothing. Step 4d is now gated to match:
The parity test's nitpick is addressed too: it now also windows step 4d (
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Hardening pass over the two fixes in this branch. Guidance: the archive step's verification pass re-runs the same comparison the fix touched, so a delta that can create nothing — no ADDED requirements, no main spec to merge into — would have been reported as "still needs sync" after a sync that correctly created nothing, and an agent could loop on it. That case now short-circuits with the reason, matching `openspec archive`, which refuses it with "Spec must have at least one requirement". Docs: the glossary defined "delta spec" but never "main spec", which is half of Fission-AI#1647's terminology complaint. It now defines the term and says that for a new capability the main spec is created by the archive rather than written up front; concepts.md says the same in the delta-section table and the archive process. The docs site generates from docs/ at build time, so no website files change. Changeset rewritten in the house style (prose, no commit header; the changelog-github action supplies attribution) and renamed descriptively. All three CLI branches this guidance describes were verified end to end: ADDED against a greenfield repo creates the spec and carries its Purpose; MODIFIED reports "target spec does not exist; only ADDED requirements are allowed for new specs"; REMOVED-only aborts with "Spec must have at least one requirement" and writes nothing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@docs/glossary.md`:
- Line 19: Update the “Main spec” definition to state that archive or sync
creates the main spec for a brand-new capability when the delta contains
applicable ADDED requirements, while preserving the existing merge behavior for
capabilities with an existing main spec.
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The "Main spec" entry said the spec is created "by the archive", but the "Sync" entry two sections down says /opsx:sync creates it as well, without archiving — and specs-sync-skill's "New capability spec" scenario is the sync's own behavior. Names both paths so the two entries agree. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Both findings from this round were valid; addressed in cce935b and 76b0eaa.
On "archive summaries must distinguish creation from blocked or no-op outcomes": the summary line names creation explicitly ( All three CLI branches were verified end to end rather than inferred from
The parity test now windows all three steps (assessment, read, create) and every assertion was proven to bite by stripping its passage and re-running. Suite: 3968 passed, with only the two failures that are pre-existing on |
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❌ 3 requirements drifted — 2 code bugs to fix, 1 stale spec.
On 🔴 Archive Command Argument Support — code is wrong · highExpected —
Observed —
Next → fix the code at Agent prompt
🔴 Skill Output — code is wrong · highExpected —
Observed —
Next → fix the code at Agent prompt
🟣 Embedded Templates and Examples — spec is out of date · highExpected —
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Next → update the requirement to match the code. Agent prompt
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▶ View full results and scan again 🔎 41 requirements drifted — 27 pointing at code, 14 needing a decision.
On 🔴 Cross-platform path handling — code is wrong · highExpected —
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Next → fix the code at 🔴 CI Job Integration — code is wrong · highExpected —
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Next → fix the code at 🔴 Nix Flake Build Validation — code is wrong · highExpected —
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▶ View full results and scan again 🔎 44 requirements drifted — 34 pointing at code, 10 needing a decision.
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Next → fix the code at 🔴 Nix Installation in CI — code is wrong · highExpected —
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In `@openspec/specs/opsx-archive-skill/spec.md`:
- Around line 85-108: Define consistent REMOVED-requirement handling across the
archive specification and workflows: in
openspec/specs/opsx-archive-skill/spec.md lines 85-108, warn that REMOVED
requirements are ignored, apply only ADDED requirements, and leave the main spec
unchanged for REMOVED-only deltas. Mirror the warning, no-write behavior,
archive continuation, and distinct no-sync status in
skills/openspec-archive-change/SKILL.md lines 97-100 and both archive workflow
templates in src/core/templates/workflows/archive-change.ts lines 99-102 and
285-288.
Apply the same fix in `@test/core/templates/skill-templates-parity.test.ts` around
lines 508 - 515: Parity tests should lock in REMOVED-only and mixed-delta
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▶ View full results and scan again 🔎 3 requirements drifted — 1 pointing at code, 2 at stale specs.
On 🔴 Archive Command Argument Support — code is wrong · highExpected —
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Next → fix the code at Agent prompt
🟣 Embedded Templates and Examples — spec is out of date · highExpected —
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▶ View full results and scan again 🔎 11 requirements drifted — 8 pointing at code, 3 needing a decision.
On 🔴 CI Job Integration — code is wrong · highExpected —
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Next → fix the code at 🔴 Nix Flake Build Validation — code is wrong · highExpected —
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Risk: low. Guidance and docs only. No CLI, parser, archive or schema behavior is touched.
What was wrong
The archive workflow told agents to compare each delta spec against its main spec, then offer "Sync now" if changes were needed or "Archive now" if already synced. It never said what a missing main spec means.
For a brand-new capability there's nothing to compare against, so agents read that as "already synced": the change landed in
changes/archive/andopenspec/specs/stayed empty. The spec was silently never written. That's #1222 and #1264, reported independently.The
openspec archiveCLI was always correct here — it creates the spec from ADDED requirements and refuses MODIFIED/RENAMED against a spec that doesn't exist. Only the generated guidance disagreed with it.What changes
Four clauses stating what the CLI already does: a missing main spec is work, not a no-op; create it from ADDED; stop on MODIFIED/RENAMED rather than inventing a requirement the CLI would refuse.
Why it's safe
Text only, and the text now matches long-standing CLI behavior instead of contradicting it.
Proof
Full suite green with zero regressions. CI green on all three platforms.
Closes #1222
Closes #1264
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