fix(status): name the command that resumes a change - #1786
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`openspec status` printed the artifact checklist and stopped. The command that moves the change forward was computed already and shipped in the JSON `nextSteps` sentence, but the text surface never rendered it, so anyone resuming a change had to know the next command by heart. Extract `resolveNextStep` so the command and the published sentence come from one place, and print it as a `Next:` line — matching the idiom `openspec new change` already uses to hand off to `openspec status`. The completion case matters most: "All planning artifacts complete!" reads as "you are done" even while implementation tasks remain, and it is now followed by the `openspec instructions apply` command that resumes the work. Closes #906 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 10 included reviews per hour; 3 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe status command now resolves one next-step command for text and JSON output. It includes ChangesStatus next-step command
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The status command now displays a resume command, but the accompanying CLI documentation has an unresolved Markdown lint warning that may fail documentation checks; no runtime behavior risk is established. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant StatusCommand
participant NextStepPolicy
participant TextOutput
participant JSONOutput
StatusCommand->>NextStepPolicy: Resolve change status and storeId
NextStepPolicy-->>StatusCommand: Return command and sentence
StatusCommand->>TextOutput: Print Next command
StatusCommand->>JSONOutput: Include nextSteps sentence
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The store-flag note landed between the "single definition" comment and the declaration it describes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The behavior change shipped without the OpenSpec change this repo requires of user-facing work, and without coverage for the paths a reviewer would reasonably ask about. Adds `add-status-next-step`, whose delta modifies `Next Artifact Discovery` in `cli-artifact-workflow` - the requirement that already says status is how you learn what comes next. It now also says status names the command. Coverage added: - Unit tests for `resolveNextStep`, pinning the published `nextSteps` sentences verbatim. Confirmed byte-identical to main's output, so the split into command + sentence provably did not reword the contract. - Custom-schema case: the line is built from the resolved artifact id, so a project with neither proposal/specs/design/tasks still gets a usable command. - Skipped artifacts are never named - they satisfy dependents but must not be created. - `--json` stays parseable and carries no `Next:` line. - `--all` gives every change its own line, and a failed entry none. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 209-211: Update the assertions for both the ready and
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The spec delta says the text output ends with the `Next:` line, but the assertions used toContain, which a later line would still satisfy. Compare the last non-empty line instead, across all four ready/complete cases and the skipped one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Split on /\r?\n/ so a CRLF stream cannot leave a carriage return attached to the line under comparison, and route the parity check through the same helper instead of its own scan. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Closes #906
What was wrong
openspec statustold you where a change stood and never told you what to do about it:That's a dead end for anyone picking a change back up — after running out of context mid-change, or on a change someone else started. It's also the command
openspec new changeexplicitly hands you off to (Next: openspec status --change <name>), so the chain broke on the very next step.The command that moves the change forward already existed.
buildNextStepscomputes it and--jsonpublishes it asnextSteps. Only the text surface dropped it.Worse in the completion case: once every planning artifact exists, status printed a lone green "All planning artifacts complete!" and nothing else. That reads as you are done even when
tasks.mdis 1/2 checked off — which is exactly what #906 reports, an agent seeing every artifactdonerather thanreadyand concluding there was nothing left to run.How it was fixed
resolveNextStep()insrc/core/change-status-policy.ts, returning{ command, sentence }.buildNextStepsreturns[sentence]— the JSON contract is byte-identical — and the text renderer printscommand. One source of truth, no sentence parsing.printStatusTextprints aNext: <command>line, matching the idiomopenspec new changealready uses.--store <id>exactly like the JSON sentence does. ANext:line without the flag would resolve against the pointer repo instead of the store.Scope is deliberately just the render. No new command, no new flag, no JSON field added, no schema or workflow-template change — it surfaces a value the agent contract already publishes.
Proof it works
The JSON contract is provably unchanged. I ran
main'sbuildNextStepsagainst the three shapes and diffed its output against the literals now pinned intest/core/change-status-policy.test.ts— byte-identical, including the--storevariant. The command/sentence split cannot have reworded anything an agent parses.Nine new end-to-end guards; eight fail on
main. Verified bygit checkout main -- src/commands/workflow/status.ts src/core/change-status-policy.ts, rebuilding, and re-running:Coverage map:
test/core/change-status-policy.test.ts(new, 10 unit tests)artifact-workflow.test.ts > status command > next stepstatus-all.test.ts--storeon the text surfacedeclared-store-fallback.test.tsTwo of those deserve calling out:
Next:line and asserts it appears verbatim insidenextSteps[0], in both the ready and planning-complete states. The two surfaces cannot drift.leanschema withbrief→planand no default artifact names. The line namesplan, thenapply. Nothing is hard-coded tospec-driven.openspec validate add-status-next-steppasses, andvalidate --allshows no new failures (the 6 failing changes fail onmaintoo).Locally: 4417/4423 before hardening, and every touched file green after. The 6 failures are environmental —
artifact-workflow > creates skills for Cursor toolandconfig-profile > confirmed project applyare pre-existing onmain(confirmed by reverting every branch file and re-running); the other four are the 10s-testTimeoutparallel-load flake and each passes in isolation. CI is green on linux, macOS, and Windows.Review round
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docs/cli.mdis untagged and the repo ships no markdownlint config or docs lint script.Next:is the final line" — valid, and taken. The spec delta says the output ends with the line, sotoContainwas the weaker claim. Added alastLine()helper compared withtoBe, applied to all five positional cases./\r?\n/now. Windows CI was green either way, so this was latent rather than active. Went one step further: the parity test had its ownsplit('\n')scan whose trailing\rwas only absorbed by an incidental.trim(); it now routes through the same helper, so the file has one CRLF-safe reader rather than two with different guarantees.Notes / nits
openspec/changes/add-status-next-step/, whose delta modifies Next Artifact Discovery incli-artifact-workflow— the requirement that already says status is how you learn what comes next. It now also says status names the command. Nodesign.md: the schema says to write one only for cross-cutting changes, new dependencies, data-model/security/perf/migration complexity, or ambiguity needing decisions before coding, and none apply to a render change. (This is the ambiguity docs: say when a contribution needs an OpenSpec change proposal first #1727 raises about contributor process; happy to adjust if maintainers want a different bar.)nextCommandfield toChangeStatus. It would have let the renderer read the command directly, but it expands the published agent contract indocs/agent-contract.mdand turns a render fix into a design decision. Threading an optional renderer argument keeps the contract untouched.1/2 tasks) in the text status. The single most useful fact for a resume, but it means readingtasks.mdinsidestatusand would drift from the JSON payload.openspec instructions apply— the command this line now names — already reports it. Worth its own issue if wanted.openspec viewandopenspec listalone: both are multi-change dashboards that already end with a pointer, and neither is per-change state.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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openspec statusnow displays aNext:line with the exact command needed to advance a change.nextSteps, including the transition to applying completed plans.--allstatus output shows a separate next-step command for each change.Documentation
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