fix(templates): stop generated skills naming workflows the profile omits - #1775
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The `core` profile installs six of the twelve workflows, but the update and apply templates named `/opsx:continue` (6 times) and `/opsx:new` (twice) regardless. On a default install those became `/openspec-continue-change` and `/openspec-new-change` — skills that were never written — so `update-change` refused to create a missing artifact and handed off to a dead end. The only guard was a sentence asking the model to check availability at runtime, 70 lines above the two places it hits the wall. `command-references.ts` decides how a reference is spelled; nothing decided whether it should be emitted at all. Add that: templates author both wordings with `optionalWorkflow()`, and `getSkillTemplates()` / `getCommandTemplates()` — the one place every generation path already funnels the resolved workflow set through — pick a branch before the reference transformers run. A profile that omits a workflow now gets a concrete `openspec status` / `openspec instructions` fallback instead of a reference to a skill that does not exist. Closes #1734 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to Generated workflow guidance now selects valid profile-specific handoffs and CLI fallbacks, while malformed conditional templates fail consistently. No current merge-blocking risk remains. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Profile as Installed workflow profile
participant Generator as Skill and command generator
participant Resolver as Optional workflow resolver
participant Templates as Workflow templates
participant Output as Generated files
Profile->>Generator: Supply installed workflows
Generator->>Templates: Load workflow templates
Templates->>Resolver: Provide optional workflow branches
Resolver->>Output: Render installed branch or CLI fallback
Output->>Generator: Validate no unresolved markers
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In `@src/core/templates/optional-workflow.ts`:
- Around line 66-70: Update the optional-workflow resolution around
CONDITIONAL_PATTERN so both whenInstalled and whenMissing branch contents are
validated for residual or malformed markers before selecting either branch.
Ensure malformed authored blocks throw consistently regardless of
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The end-to-end init test pinned the runtime availability hedging that #1734 is about, and asserted `/opsx:continue` appears in the default profile's generated update workflow — the bug itself. Assert the fixed behavior instead: neither `/opsx:continue` nor `/opsx:new` appears, and the CLI fallback is stated outright, for both the update and apply surfaces. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first commit fixed the two templates the default profile broke on. Every other cross-workflow handoff had the same shape, and arbitrary subsets are reachable: a `custom` profile is whatever the user picked, and `openspec update` re-derives a workflow set from what it finds on disk (legacy tool overrides, inferred Codex workflows) without passing it through getProfileWorkflows. So resolve all of them: - `apply` -> archive; `continue` -> apply, archive; `ff` -> apply; `new` -> continue; `propose` -> apply; `update` -> apply, archive; `archive` and `bulk-archive` -> sync. - `onboard`'s two command-reference tables are built from the installed set rather than printed in full with an "only if installed" caveat, and its explore, resume and next-step prompts are resolved the same way. Two supporting changes: - `onlyWithWorkflow()` plus a whole-line rule in the resolver: a conditional that owns its line takes the line with it when it resolves to empty, so a dropped table row cannot leave a blank line that ends the table in markdown. - `generateSkillContent()` and `generateCommand()` now throw on an unresolved marker. A generation path that skips the choke point fails loudly instead of writing `[[opsx:...]]` into a user's SKILL.md. The propose and ff surfaces keep their deliberate wording difference (#258): the command surface never invites "ask me to implement", so its missing-`apply` fallback names the CLI rather than a conversation. The guard test now runs the property over every subset that could expose a reference — each workflow alone, everything but one, the empty set, and the two shipped profiles — for skills and commands, in both spellings. Twenty-plus of those cases fail against the previous commit. Only `openspec-onboard` changes in the skills/ mirror: with every workflow installed, all other templates render byte for byte as before. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Resolution discarded the unselected branch and only then checked for residual markers, so a truncated block inside the *missing* branch was accepted for a profile that installs the workflow and rejected for one that does not. Profile-dependent authoring errors are exactly what this module exists to remove. Validate the authored text up front instead: every marker must be one of the three recognized forms, and they must appear as a flat sequence of if / else / end. A malformed block now throws identically for every profile. The post-resolution check stays as a backstop. Caught by CodeRabbit on #1775. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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One blocker before approval: this changes profile-dependent user-facing contracts, but the canonical docs-lab/reference/skills.md page still describes several handoffs as unconditional.
For example, its response rows say openspec-apply-change always points blocked work to openspec-continue-change (line 85), and the update, new, continue, archive, and bulk-archive entries likewise promise named workflow handoffs around lines 95-165. With the core profile or an arbitrary custom subset, this PR deliberately emits CLI or conversational fallbacks instead. Those reference contracts are therefore stale for the default install.
Please update docs-lab/reference/skills.md to reflect the installed-versus-missing behavior, or explain concretely why the existing contracts remain accurate. The implementation itself looks sound: I reviewed head 26d1cff09, the conditional validation now runs before branch selection, all CI checks are green, and 231 focused tests plus lint passed locally.
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Ready for review. Every cross-workflow reference OpenSpec generates is now decided against the installed workflow set — not just the two the default profile broke on.
Closes #1734
Closes #919
What was wrong
The default
coreprofile installs 6 of the 12 workflows:propose,explore,apply,update,sync,archive. The generated skills named workflows outside that set anyway:Those skills were never written, so
update-changewas a closed loop: it refuses to create a missing artifact and hands off to a workflow that does not exist. The only guard was one sentence at the top of the file asking the model to verify availability at runtime, 70 lines above the two places it hits the wall.src/utils/command-references.tsexists to prevent exactly this ("so that generated skills do not reference commands that were never generated"), but it branches on tool id and delivery — never on the resolved workflow set.Fourth instance of the same drift after #963, #913 and #1409, each settled ad hoc.
How it was fixed
Split the two questions.
command-references.tsstill decides how a reference is spelled; a newsrc/core/templates/optional-workflow.tsdecides whether it is emitted.optionalWorkflow('continue', <text when installed>, <CLI fallback>), oronlyWithWorkflow(id, text)for a passage that simply disappears.getSkillTemplates()/getCommandTemplates()resolve the conditionals against the workflow set they are already given. That is the single choke point every generation path funnels through — init, update, migration, and the skills.sh distribution.generateSkillContent()andgenerateCommand()throw on an unresolved marker, so a generation path that skips the choke point fails loudly instead of writing[[opsx:...]]into someone'sSKILL.md.Every reference now resolved
updatecontinue,new,apply,archiveopenspec status/openspec instructions;openspec new change;openspec archiveapplycontinue,archiveopenspec status/openspec instructions;openspec archivecontinueapply,archiveopenspec instructions apply;openspec archivepropose,ffapplyopenspec instructions apply(command surface) or a conversational handoff (skill surface)newcontinuearchive,bulk-archivesynconboardonboardalso stops printing its full command list under an "only if installed - availability depends on your profile" caveat. The two tables are now built from the workflows you have, which is the whole point of knowing at generation time.The
coreoutput reads, for example:core)core)is an optional workflow and may not be installed. Before suggesting it anywhere below, verify…This workflow revises artifacts that already exist; it never creates missing ones. When an artifact is missing,openspec status …names the next one andopenspec instructions …explains how to write it.Artifacts still missing -> suggest/openspec-continue-changeto create them.Artifacts still missing -> runopenspec status …for the next artifact and point the user toopenspec instructions …for how to create it.that is/openspec-continue-change's jobcreating them is a separate step, outside this workflowfirst verify whether the optional/openspec-new-changeworkflow is available. If it is…ask for a distinct unused change name and recommendopenspec new change ""insteadOn a profile that installs everything, the handoffs stay — minus the runtime hedging, which is now dead weight.
Replication / proof
Original repro, on this branch:
skills/is the strongest evidence this is a faithful refactor: with every workflow installed, onlyopenspec-onboardchanges. Every other template renders byte for byte as before.Regression coverage:
test/core/shared/profile-workflow-references.test.ts— runs the property over every subset that could expose a reference: each workflow alone, everything but one, the empty set, and the two shipped profiles (27 sets × skills and commands, in both the/opsx:<id>and/openspec-<skill>spellings). Twenty-plus of these fail against the previous commit, and the whole file fails againstmain. A companion assertion checks the mirror image — that with everything installed, every referenced workflow is still named — so a conditional cannot silently drop both branches.test/core/templates/optional-workflow.test.ts— branch selection, multiline branches, whole-line drop with indentation, inline conditionals leaving their line intact, and the throw on a malformed block.test/core/templates/update-change.test.ts,propose.test.ts— resolved output asserted for both an all-workflows profile and one missing the workflow in question. Propose and ff keep their deliberate surface difference (openspec/proposal in Cursor does not behave as expected #258): the command surface never invites "ask me to implement", so its missing-applyfallback names the CLI.test/core/init.test.ts(init --tools claude generates workflows that drop --store, reference a nonexistent /opsx:continue, and skip validation on sync #1493 case) — this end-to-end test pinned the hedging and asserted/opsx:continueappears in the default profile's generated update workflow, i.e. it pinned the bug. It now asserts the opposite, on the realinitoutput.skills/mirror regenerated (pnpm generate:skills) and parity hashes regenerated; the parity test's content hashes now pin what generation emits rather than the unresolved authoring form.Local suite matches
main's baseline (the remaining failures are sandbox-environmental —EACCESon temp dirs,worksettimeouts — and fail identically onmain).Notes
archive→syncis doubly safe:getProfileWorkflows()injectssyncwheneverarchiveorbulk-archiveis selected, and the reference is conditional anyway, becauseopenspec updatere-derives workflow sets from what it finds on disk without going through that function.bulk-archiveis the one workflow nothing points at — it is reached from the CLI, not from another workflow. The test records that explicitly.onboardand nothing else renders an empty command table. That configuration has no workflows for the tutorial to teach, so it is left alone rather than given a mechanism of its own.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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