fix(init): name the workflows the profile left out - #1779
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Setup output listed the workflows it installed but never mentioned the ones it did not, so a user on the default core profile who typed /opsx:ff saw nothing and read it as a broken install. The docs explain profiles; nobody reads them before typing a command that should be there. init now closes with the missing workflows by name and the two commands that add them. The note is skipped when nothing was generated at all, where the existing delivery correction is the whole story, and when the profile already installs everything. Also adds a troubleshooting entry for the "only some /opsx: commands show up" symptom, which the existing list did not cover. Closes #1076 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to In certain shared tool configurations, update can suggest adding omitted workflows even though no usable workflow artifact is installed, which may mislead users troubleshooting missing commands. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant User
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participant Profile
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User->>InitOrUpdate: run openspec init or openspec update
InitOrUpdate->>Profile: read active workflow profile
InitOrUpdate->>ToolSurface: check generated or available workflow surface
ToolSurface-->>InitOrUpdate: surface status
InitOrUpdate->>WorkflowFormatter: format omitted workflows
WorkflowFormatter->>Profile: compare installed workflows with ALL_WORKFLOWS
Profile-->>WorkflowFormatter: missing workflow IDs
WorkflowFormatter-->>InitOrUpdate: note or null
InitOrUpdate-->>User: display applicable profile guidance
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In `@src/core/init.ts`:
- Line 1393: Update the conditional in displaySuccessMessage to remove the
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test-show-command-tmp/ is created by a test run and does not exist on main; it was picked up by a `git add -A`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
With no tools selected (or only tools that could not receive a surface), `openspec config profile` followed by `openspec update` writes nothing, so naming the missing workflows pointed at the wrong problem. Reported by CodeRabbit on this PR. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`openspec config profile` offers to apply to the current project before it exits, and prints the `openspec update` guidance itself when the user declines, so naming a second command was one step too many. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`openspec config profile` applies to the current project itself, so listing `openspec update` as a second required step was wrong; it is the fallback for declining the prompt or for other projects. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`openspec update` is what the troubleshooting checklist tells a user to run when a command they read about never appeared, and it is what people run after upgrading the CLI. Neither of its existing profile notes fires on the default `core` profile, so that user reached "All tools up to date" and still learned nothing about the six workflows they don't have. The note is the fallback pointer: silent when the extra-workflow or missing-core note already named `openspec config profile`, and when no configured tool can receive a workflow surface under the active delivery. Reading the two existing notes as one short-circuited `||` would have swallowed whichever ran second; they are evaluated separately. Closes #1076 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The two call sites had grown identical six-line blocks. One displayProfileNotes() keeps the ordering and the single-pointer rule in one place, where the "evaluate every note, never chain them with ||" constraint can be stated once. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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731-735: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winBase the optional-workflow note on a writable surface.
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agentsowns the shared.agentsskills root andcodexis also configured,delivery: 'commands'makesshouldGenerateSkillsForTool('codex', delivery)true.resolveSharedSkillWritersthen prevents Codex from writing skills, and neither tool writes an artifact. The predicate atsrc/core/update.ts:731can still print guidance. Use the effective writer/adapter checks, and add coverage for this case plus an adapterless tool.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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The CLI change looks good at 02d6b93, and the focused init/update/onboarding suite passes (290 tests).
One docs blocker: please drop the docs/troubleshooting.md change. docs-lab/README.md says the old docs/ tree is legacy, is no longer used by the site, and must stay untouched while fixes land in docs-lab/. The canonical docs-lab/customize/profiles.md page already lists the six optional workflows and the openspec config profile command, and the root README already calls out the expanded workflow set, so keeping this edit would create a third copy in the stale tree.
I also checked CodeRabbit's latest shared-root warning. With agents owning .agents/skills, even with legacy .codex/skills present, configured-tool reconciliation returns only agents; under delivery: commands, update emits the zero-artifact correction and suppresses the optional-workflow note. I don't think that warning needs a code change.
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What was wrong
OpenSpec tells you what it installed and never what it didn't.
On the default
coreprofile that means 6 of the 12 workflows land, and the other 6 are invisible. A user who types/opsx:ff,/opsx:new,/opsx:continue,/opsx:verify,/opsx:bulk-archive, or/opsx:onboardgets nothing back, with no signal that the command was never installed rather than broken.That is #1076. Four separate people land in that thread; the answer each time is "run
openspec config profile", and the last comment asks for it to be written down somewhere findable.The loop closes badly. Troubleshooting tells that user to run
openspec updatefirst — andupdateprints two profile notes, neither of which fires on the default profile:So they follow the documented checklist and still learn nothing. The docs do explain profiles, in eight places, but nobody reads them before typing a command that should be there.
How it was fixed
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initandupdatenow close with the missing workflows by name and the command that adds them:The wording and two-line shape follow the existing
displayMissingCoreWorkflowsNoteinupdate, which exists for the same reason ("so releases that growCORE_WORKFLOWSstay discoverable"). It names one command, not two:openspec config profileoffers to apply to the current project before it exits, and prints theopenspec updateguidance itself when declined.On
updatethe note is the fallback pointer — it stays quiet whenever something else already pointed at the same command, so the output never says it twice.Suppressed wherever it would mislead:
init --tools noneconfig profile+updatewould write nothingdelivery: commands+ a skills-only tool)updatealready printed the extra-workflow or missing-core noteinitalready printed "Runopenspec config profile" (nopropose, nonew)docs/troubleshooting.mdalso gains an entry for the "only some/opsx:commands show up" symptom. The existing list covers six causes of no commands appearing and none of one command missing.Proof it works
Verified by hand in scratch repos, not only in tests:
init --tools claude(core)init --tools noneupdateon the core profileupdate, custom profile missing a core workflowupdate, all 12 workflows selectedupdate,delivery: commands+ skills-only toolThirteen new tests:
formatOptionalWorkflowsNote— core profile lists all six by name; declaration order preserved regardless of input order; singular phrasing when exactly one is missing (1 more workflow is available (onboard)/Add it with);nullwhen everything is installed; unknown workflow names ignored.init— note appears on the core profile and names each missing workflow; absent when the profile installsALL_WORKFLOWS, when no tool was selected, and when nothing was generated at all.update— note appears on the up-to-date path and names each missing workflow; absent when the missing-core note already gave the pointer, when all workflows are installed, and when no configured tool can receive one.Every guard was proven to fail first by reverting it: the
--tools nonegate, the already-pointed gate, and the has-a-surface gate each turn their test red when removed.All required CI checks pass on all three OS jobs. Locally,
mainin this sandbox fails 10 of 4,420 tests (workset,version-check,config-profile,artifact-workflow,package-install-scripts— all environmental); this branch adds 13 tests, passes 4,428, and fails only within those same families.tsc --noEmitandeslintclean.One
windows-pwshrun failed onstore-gitandreferences— both 10s/18s timeouts, in files this branch does not touch, and the known Windows flake signature. A re-run passed; every other Windows run on this branch passed first time.Notes / nits
displayExtraWorkflowsNoteanddisplayMissingCoreWorkflowsNotenow return whether they printed. Reading the two as one short-circuited||would have silently swallowed whichever ran second. Both call sites now go through onedisplayProfileNotes(), which evaluates every note and states that constraint once.openspec config profilepicker runsupdatewhen you accept its apply prompt, so a user who deliberately selects 8 of 12 workflows sees the note immediately after choosing. Left as-is: the note is accurate there, and suppressing it would mean threading a flag throughUpdateCommandfor an aesthetic gain. Flagging it so it isn't a surprise in review.displayExtraWorkflowsNoteappears to be unreachable —hasToolProfileOrDeliveryDrifttreats deselected-workflow artifacts as drift, soupdatereconciles them before the note runs, and the up-to-date branch is not taken while they exist. It has no test coverage onmain. I wrote a regression test for it, could not make it fire, and deleted the test rather than ship one that passes vacuously. Left alone as out of scope; worth a separate look.docs/is the README-linked tree GitHub readers use, so the troubleshooting entry went there.docs-lab/help/troubleshooting.md(the website source) is an explicitly held-back skeleton — "this page is not written yet" — anddocs-lab/customize/profiles.mdalready covers the profile sets well, so neither needed a change.skills/mirror to regenerate.ALL_WORKFLOWS, so a release that adds a workflow surfaces it automatically without touching this code.test-show-command-tmp/, a test scratch directory that agit add -Aswept into the first commit. It is not onmain.Closes #1076
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openspec initandopenspec updatemessaging to identify workflows omitted by the active profile and explain how to add them./opsx:commands are unavailable.Documentation
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