feat(validate): report the deltas archive would refuse - #1710
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validate checked a change's deltas against themselves and, for MODIFIED blocks, against the main spec's scenarios. It never checked whether the main spec can supply the target a delta acts on, so a MODIFIED naming a requirement that is not there, a RENAMED whose source is gone, or an ADDED whose name already exists all validated clean and failed at archive instead - typically weeks later, after the implementing PR had shipped and the authoring session was gone. Run the merge archive runs and report what it refuses. buildUpdatedSpec returns the rebuilt content without writing it, so the preflight is the same function on the same inputs with the result discarded, and cannot disagree with the code that does the writing. That matters here: several of those preconditions deliberately read a missing target as already-synced rather than as a failure, and a second copy of the rules would be free to drift. Reported as INFO so no verdict changes in any mode. A MODIFIED whose target is missing is also what a change modifying a sibling's unarchived requirement looks like, and validate stays valid for that case today; telling the two apart needs the opt-in marker Fission-AI#1112 asks for. What is missing until then is the information, not the verdict. Refs Fission-AI#1112
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 10 included reviews per hour; 7 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughArchive preflight now excludes paths that already have missing-header, empty-section, or other validation errors. Tests cover archive failure parity and duplicate suppression. The CLI example uses a text-annotated code fence. ChangesArchive preflight validation
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to This change adds informational preflight reporting for deltas that archive would reject without changing validation verdicts or write behavior. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@docs-lab/reference/cli.md`:
- Line 664: Update the code fence near the documented CLI section to include a
language identifier, using text or console, so the Markdownlint MD040 violation
is resolved.
In `@src/core/validation/validator.ts`:
- Around line 405-412: The archive preflight around findArchiveBlockers must
skip delta files that will receive deferred errors from emptySectionSpecs or
missingHeaderSpecs. Add those paths to alreadyReported before the preflight, or
move their error emission ahead of it, ensuring buildUpdatedSpec is not called
for either case. Add regression coverage for both empty-section and headerless
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…loop missingHeaderSpecs and emptySectionSpecs are collected inside the per-spec loop but only become issues after it, so a suppression set built from the issues raised so far could not see them. A headerless or empty-section delta has nothing for the merge to apply, so the preflight reported that as a blocker of its own, on top of the error that names the actual mistake.
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Refs #1112.
What's missing today
validatechecks a change's deltas against themselves, and — forMODIFIEDblocks only — against the main spec's scenarios (#1477). It never checks whether the main spec can supply the target a delta acts on.specs-apply.tsthrows at eight sites before it will merge a delta:RENAMEDsource missing (:400),RENAMEDtarget exists (:403),REMOVEDmissing (:435),MODIFIEDmissing (:454), header mismatch (:460), scenario drop (:466),ADDEDexists (:491).validatecovers one of those eight, because the cross-spec pass is gated onplan.modified.length > 0(validator.ts:312) and then skips a missing target outright (:607).So the rest surface at
openspec archive. #1112 has two reproductions where that was days-to-weeks after the implementing PR shipped and the authoring session was gone.Approach
Run the merge archive runs, and report what it refuses:
findSpecUpdates+buildUpdatedSpec(update, changeName, { silent: true }),rebuiltdiscarded.buildUpdatedSpecperforms no writes.The preconditions are deliberately not restated. Several of them read a missing target as already-synced rather than as a failure — a
RENAMEDwhose source is gone but whose target is present, for one — and a second model of those rules would be free to disagree with the code that decides. A preflight that reports a change archive accepts is worse than no preflight. There's a test for exactly that case.Level
INFO, so no verdict changes in any mode including--strict.I wrote this as
WARNINGfirst. That broke two tests invalidation.scenario-loss.test.tswhich run strict and assertvalid === true, one of them named "sister change in flight". The point stands on its own: aMODIFIEDwhose target is missing is a mistyped header, and it is also a change modifying a requirement a sibling introduced and hasn't archived yet — which becomes applicable the moment that sibling lands. Telling the two apart needs the opt-in marker #1112 proposes, which is a separate decision.What's missing until then is the information, not the verdict.
INFOrenders withℹin text output and appears in--json, so the author sees the collision while they're still in the file. Both scenario-loss tests pass unmodified.Promoting this to
WARNINGunder--strictis a one-line follow-up once the opt-in mechanism exists.Tests
Eight, in
test/core/validation.archive-preflight.test.ts, following the parity discipline of the scenario-loss suite: every reported delta is cross-checked against whatbuildUpdatedSpecactually throws, and every clean delta is cross-checked as clean. Covers a missingMODIFIEDtarget, a collidingADDED, a missingRENAMEDsource, a clean delta, an early-synced rename, a brand-new capability, verdict stability in both modes, and non-duplication when the scenario-loss check already reported the same spec in better wording.Four fail on
main. Full suite is unchanged against the pre-existing baseline;tscclean.Cost
One extra read per delta spec, only when
mainSpecsDiris passed — the same read archive does. Errors carrying an errno are skipped, so a transientEMFILEduringvalidate --allcan't be reported as a collision.Summary by CodeRabbit
openspec validatenow identifies change conflicts that could prevent successful archiving.