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3915db763a fix(guidance): teach the spec-inventory verb to generated guidance (#1700)
* fix(guidance): teach the spec-inventory verb to generated guidance

`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>

* fix(guidance): carry the store qualifier wherever the command is named

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>

* fix(guidance): read a listed capability with the store-aware command

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>

* fix: Use ASCII arrows instead of unicode

This fixes the issue of ambiguous unicode character width when visualizing on terminals

* fix: Update remaining docs within explore to use ASCII

* fix(explore): finish the ASCII conversion and guard it

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>

* test(explore): cover every check/cross dingbat in the ASCII guard

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>

* fix(explore): require explicit confirmation before writing files

* test(explore): harden write confirmation guardrail

* fix(explore): scope write confirmation precisely

* test(guidance): pin store-aware spec reads

* test(templates): regenerate explore parity hashes

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>

* fix(guidance): read complete specs before coverage decisions

* docs: drop the redundant legacy docs/cli.md edit

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>

* chore(changeset): drop the docs claim this PR no longer makes

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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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Shooks <justanormalme@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ayman D. <ayman.bacc@gmail.com>
2026-09-09 16:25:02 +00:00
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