* docs: add Spec Kit spec for agent-context full opt-in
Use Spec Kit's own specify workflow to author the spec that makes the
agent-context extension a full opt-in, removing all agent-context
configuration/support from the Python codebase and removing the
deprecation message. Force-added despite specs/ being gitignored; the
generated artifact will be purged prior to merge.
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* docs: add Spec Kit plan artifacts for agent-context full opt-in
Phase 0/1 of the SDD plan workflow: plan.md, research.md, data-model.md,
quickstart.md, and contracts/cli-behavior.md. Constitution Check is a
documented no-op (repo has no ratified constitution). Force-added despite
specs/ being gitignored; generated artifacts will be purged prior to merge.
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* docs: correct Constitution Check against ratified v1.0.0
Earlier draft wrongly treated the gate as a no-op; the fork's main is 16
commits behind upstream/main, which carries .specify/memory/constitution.md.
Re-evaluate the feature against Principles I-V (all PASS) and note that
Principle I mandates keeping context_file as a declared class attribute,
validating the R1 metadata decision.
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* docs: refresh plan artifacts against synced upstream/main
After syncing fork main to upstream and rebasing, re-scan the current
agent-context surface. Upstream generalized the single context_file into a
plural context_files concept with new resolver helpers
(_resolve_context_files, _resolve_context_file_values,
_format_context_file_values) and upsert/remove now loop over multiple
files. Update research.md, data-model.md, contracts, quickstart grep
guards, and the plan summary to cover the expanded removal scope.
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* docs: add Spec Kit tasks for agent-context full opt-in
Phase 2 of SDD: dependency-ordered tasks.md (30 tasks) organized by the
three user stories, with mandatory test tasks (Constitution Principle II)
and a foundational phase decoupling __CONTEXT_FILE__ resolution from the
extension config. Includes the extension self-seeding task (T015) and a
static guard test (T002) enforcing zero agent-context references in the CLI.
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* feat!: remove agent-context lifecycle from the Specify CLI
Make the agent-context extension a full opt-in. The CLI no longer
installs the extension during init, writes agent-context-config.yml,
or creates/updates/removes the managed Spec Kit section in agent
context files. Context-section upsert/remove, marker resolution,
extension-enabled gating, the config helpers, and the obsolete inline
deprecation warning are all removed. Integration context_file stays as
inert metadata; __CONTEXT_FILE__ now resolves from registry metadata.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(agent-context): self-seed context file from the active integration
When agent-context-config.yml has no context_file/context_files, the
bundled bash and PowerShell update scripts now resolve the context file
from the active integration in .specify/init-options.json via the
integration registry, so the extension no longer depends on the CLI
writing its config.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* test+docs: update suite and docs for agent-context opt-in
Update integration/extension tests to expect no agent-context install,
config, or context-section writes during init. Add a static guard test
(test_agent_context_cli_free.py) asserting the CLI source is free of
agent-context lifecycle symbols, plus backward-compatibility tests for
legacy projects. Refresh AGENTS.md, the extension README, and add a
CHANGELOG entry describing the opt-in behavior change.
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* fix(agent-context): warn on self-seed failure, correct docs, speed up guard test
Address PR review feedback:
- Self-seed scripts (bash + PowerShell) now emit an actionable warning when
an active integration is configured but specify_cli cannot be imported by
the chosen Python (e.g. pipx installs), or when the integration declares no
context file, instead of silently falling through to 'nothing to do'.
- Correct the extension README disable note: command rendering never reads the
extension config; __CONTEXT_FILE__ is always substituted from integration
metadata, so a stale context_files value cannot affect rendering.
- Cache CLI source reads in the static guard test via a module-scoped fixture
so the directory walk happens once instead of once per forbidden symbol.
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* feat(agent-context): ship self-owned per-agent context-file defaults
The extension now bundles agent-context-defaults.json (key→context_file
map) and self-seeds from it, dropping any dependency on the Specify CLI
registry. Both the bash and PowerShell update scripts read the bundled
JSON map keyed by the active integration from init-options.json.
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* feat!: remove all agent-context state from the Specify CLI
Strip every context_file reference from the CLI: the field on all 35
integration classes, the IntegrationBase plumbing (process_template
param/step, _context_file_display, docstrings), the __CONTEXT_FILE__
resolution in agents.py, the legacy context_file/context_markers
popping in _helpers.py, and the context_file template in
integration_scaffold.py. Also drop the Agent context update step and
__CONTEXT_FILE__ placeholder from templates/commands/plan.md.
The agent-context extension now solely owns all context-file knowledge,
including the per-agent default mapping.
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* test: drop context_file coverage and guard against CLI reintroduction
Remove CONTEXT_FILE attrs and context_file assertions across the base
mixins, all 35 per-integration test files, shared integration tests, and
conftest stubs. Rewrite the base-mixin context tests to assert no managed
section is written and no __CONTEXT_FILE__ placeholder survives. Extend
the CLI-free static guard to forbid context_file, __CONTEXT_FILE__, and
_context_file_display in src/specify_cli, and have the extension tests
copy the bundled defaults JSON so self-seed runs without the CLI.
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* docs: reflect full removal of agent-context state from the CLI
Update AGENTS.md (integration examples, required-fields table, context
behavior section, pitfalls), CHANGELOG, and the SDD spec artifacts
(FR-007, SC-002, data-model) to state that the CLI carries no
context_file and the extension fully owns the per-agent default mapping
via agent-context-defaults.json.
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* docs: align SDD artifacts with full context_file removal
Update research.md (R1, R2, R4, summary table), contracts/cli-behavior.md
(C3, C5), tasks.md (Phase 2, T026, notes), plan.md (Principle I, source
map), and checklists/requirements.md so the spec artifacts reflect the
implemented decision: the CLI carries no context_file attribute or
__CONTEXT_FILE__ resolution, and the per-agent defaults map lives in the
extension. Resolves PR review #4548130110.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* docs: scrub stale context-file mentions from CLI docstrings
Update the multi_install_safe docstring (drop the removed "context file"
invariant), the RovoDev setup docstring (no longer upserts a context
section), the Copilot module docstring (drop the context-file line), and
tighten the _update_init_options_for_integration note. Pure docstring
changes — no behavioral impact. Resolves PR review #4548237085.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* test+docs: harden agent-context test helper and fix stale docs
- base.py: document multi_install_safe as an optional subclass attribute
in the IntegrationBase docstring.
- test_cli.py: clarify the init-options assertion is guarding against
leftover legacy agent-context keys, not relocation.
- test_extension_agent_context.py: _install_agent_context_config now
asserts the bundled agent-context-defaults.json exists and always
copies it, so self-seeding tests fail loudly instead of silently
skipping when the map is missing.
- test_integration_cursor_agent.py: drop Path/IntegrationManifest imports
left unused after removing the context-section frontmatter tests.
Resolves PR review #4548293116.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* chore: remove gitignored SDD artifacts from specs/
The specs/001-agent-context-full-optin/ artifacts were force-added for
dogfooding visibility, but specs/ is gitignored and these were always
intended to be purged before merge. Remove them so merging does not add
an intentionally-untracked directory to repo history.
Assisted-by: GitHub Copilot (model: Claude Opus 4.8, autonomous)
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* chore: keep CHANGELOG.md identical to upstream
CHANGELOG.md is auto-generated at release time, so the branch should not
carry a manual entry. Restore it to match upstream/main exactly.
Assisted-by: GitHub Copilot (model: Claude Opus 4.8, autonomous)
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: preserve Cursor .mdc frontmatter in agent-context updater scripts
The bundled agent-context updater scripts wrote the managed section as
plain text. For Cursor-style `.mdc` targets this dropped the required
`---\nalwaysApply: true\n---` frontmatter, reintroducing the rule-loading
bug originally fixed in #1699. Port the `_ensure_mdc_frontmatter` logic
into both the bash and PowerShell updaters: prepend frontmatter when
missing, repair `alwaysApply` when set to the wrong value, and leave
non-`.mdc` targets untouched. Add regression tests covering both shells.
Assisted-by: GitHub Copilot (model: Claude Opus 4.8, autonomous)
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* test: scope CLI-free guard to agent-context-specific symbols
Drop the bare "context_file" substring from FORBIDDEN_SYMBOLS so the
guard no longer fails on unrelated future CLI fields named context_file.
The list still covers agent-context-specific identifiers (__CONTEXT_FILE__,
_context_file_display, _resolve_context_files, _resolve_context_file_values).
Assisted-by: GitHub Copilot (model: Claude Opus 4.8, autonomous)
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: harden agent-context bash self-seed against malformed init JSON
Two robustness fixes in the embedded Python self-seed logic:
- Coerce the integration value from init-options.json to a string only when
it is actually a string; otherwise treat it as unset so a corrupted
dict/list value degrades to the existing nothing-to-do behavior instead of
breaking the agents-map lookup.
- Normalize agent-context-defaults.json: only use 'agents' when both the JSON
root and the 'agents' value are dicts, so a wrong-shaped (but valid) JSON
falls back to the warning path instead of raising on .get.
Assisted-by: GitHub Copilot (model: Claude Opus 4.8, autonomous)
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: correct PowerShell hyphenated key lookup and regex replace count
- Self-seed now reads the defaults mapping via
$defaults.agents.PSObject.Properties[$integrationKey].Value instead of
member access ($defaults.agents.$integrationKey), which parsed hyphenated
keys like 'cursor-agent'/'kiro-cli' as subtraction and failed to resolve.
- Replace the static [regex]::Replace(..., 1) call, whose trailing 1 was
interpreted as RegexOptions.IgnoreCase rather than a replacement count, with
an instance Regex whose Replace(input, replacement, 1) limits to the first
match as intended.
Assisted-by: GitHub Copilot (model: Claude Opus 4.8, autonomous)
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: make bash .mdc frontmatter guard case-insensitive
The bash updater only injected Cursor .mdc frontmatter when ctx_path ended
in lowercase '.mdc', so a mixed/upper-case extension (e.g. specify-rules.MDC)
was skipped and Cursor would not auto-load the rule file. Compare against the
casefolded path. The PowerShell variant already uses -match, which is
case-insensitive by default, so no change is needed there.
Assisted-by: GitHub Copilot (model: Claude Opus 4.8, autonomous)
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* docs: document separator-agnostic agent-context update invocation
The README hard-coded the dot-notation slash command
(/speckit.agent-context.update), which hyphen-separator agents like Forge and
Cline do not recognize. Document the canonical command ID plus both slash
invocations so users copy the form their agent accepts.
Assisted-by: GitHub Copilot (model: Claude Opus 4.8, autonomous)
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In agent-direct invocations nothing watches agent output for the
EXECUTE_COMMAND: directive, so a mandatory hook that is only emitted
never runs and the failure is silent (#2730). Add one line after each
mandatory-hook block instructing the agent to actually invoke the hook
and wait for it before continuing.
The instruction tells the agent to run the hook the way it would run
the command itself in the current agent/session, and notes the
invocation may differ from the literal {command} id shown in the block
(e.g. skills-mode agents run it as /skill:speckit-... or $speckit-...),
so it stays correct outside the default slash-command form.
Fixes#2730
* fix: promote post-execution hook dispatch to H2 with directive language
Restructure the after_* hook dispatch in all five core command templates
(specify, clarify, implement, plan, tasks) to make hook execution
structurally unmissable by LLMs during interactive slash-command flows.
Changes applied consistently across all five templates:
1. Promote hook block from a final numbered step to a top-level
'## Mandatory Post-Execution Hooks' H2, placed before the completion
report. An H2 boundary is salient in a way that a numbered sub-step
buried after 'Report completion' is not.
2. Use directive language for mandatory hooks: 'You MUST emit
EXECUTE_COMMAND: for each mandatory hook' and 'You MUST complete this
section before reporting completion to the user.' The previous
conditional framing ('check if', 'based on its optional flag') buried
the mandatory cases.
3. List mandatory hooks before optional hooks in the dispatch block, so
the required action appears first.
4. Add a terminal '## Done When' verification checklist at the end of
each template, including 'Extension hooks dispatched' as an explicit
completion criterion. This gives the model a structured opportunity to
verify completion before exiting.
5. Extract the completion report into its own '## Completion Report' H2
section, clearly separated from the hook dispatch.
These changes preserve the interactive-vs-workflow distinction and do not
introduce auto-run. They raise the reliability of the existing
best-effort dispatch mechanism.
Fixes#2688
* fix: address review — narrow Done When wording and move to end of templates
- Narrow the hooks checklist item from a broad condition to 'dispatched
or skipped according to the rules in Mandatory Post-Execution Hooks
above' so it does not contradict the filtering rules for disabled
hooks or hooks with non-empty conditions.
- Move the Done When section to the actual end of specify.md, plan.md,
and tasks.md so it does not signal premature completion before the
agent reads required guidance sections (Quick Guidelines, Phases/Key
rules, Task Generation Rules).
* fix: update stale step 8 reference in specify.md validation flow
The old 'proceed to step 8' pointed to the completion report step that
was renumbered when hook dispatch was promoted to its own H2 section.
Update the reference to point to 'Mandatory Post-Execution Hooks'.
* Replace shell-based context updates with marker-based upsert
Replace ~3500 lines of bash/PowerShell agent context update scripts
with a Python-based approach using <!-- SPECKIT START/END --> markers.
IntegrationBase now manages the agent context file directly:
- upsert_context_section(): creates or updates the marked section at
init/install/switch time with a directive to read the current plan
- remove_context_section(): removes the section at uninstall, deleting
the file only if it becomes empty
- __CONTEXT_FILE__ placeholder in command templates is resolved per
integration so the plan command references the correct agent file
- context_file is persisted in init-options.json for extension access
The plan command template instructs the LLM to update the plan
reference between the markers in the agent context file.
Removed:
- scripts/bash/update-agent-context.sh (857 lines)
- scripts/powershell/update-agent-context.ps1 (515 lines)
- 56 integration wrapper scripts (update-context.sh/.ps1)
- templates/agent-file-template.md
- agent_scripts frontmatter key and {AGENT_SCRIPT} replacement logic
- update-context reference from integration.json
- tests/test_cursor_frontmatter.py (tested deleted scripts)
Added:
- upsert/remove context section methods on IntegrationBase
- __CONTEXT_FILE__ placeholder support in process_template()
- context_file field in init-options.json (init/switch/uninstall)
- Per-integration tests: context file correctness, plan reference,
init-options persistence (78 new context_file tests)
- End-to-end CLI validation across all 28 integrations
* fix: search for end marker after start marker in context section methods
Address Copilot review: content.find(CONTEXT_MARKER_END) searched from
the start of the file rather than after the located start marker. If
the file contained a stray end marker before the start marker, the
wrong slice could be replaced.
Now both upsert_context_section() and remove_context_section() pass
start_idx as the second argument to find() and validate end_idx >
start_idx before performing the replacement.
* fix: address Copilot review feedback on context section handling
1. Fix grammar in _build_context_section() directive text — add commas
for a complete sentence.
2. Resolve __CONTEXT_FILE__ in resolve_skill_placeholders() — skills
generated via extensions/presets for codex/kimi now replace the
placeholder using the context_file value from init-options.json.
3. Handle Cursor .mdc frontmatter — when creating a new .mdc context
file, prepend alwaysApply: true YAML frontmatter so Cursor
auto-loads the rules.
4. Fix empty-file leading newline — when the context file exists but
is empty, write the section directly instead of prepending a blank
line.
* fix: address second round of Copilot review feedback
1. Ensure .mdc frontmatter on existing files — upsert_context_section()
now checks for missing YAML frontmatter on .mdc files during updates
(not just creation), so pre-existing Cursor files get alwaysApply.
2. Guard against context_file=None — use 'or ""' instead of a default
arg so explicit null values in init-options.json don't cause a
TypeError in str.replace().
3. Clean up .mdc files on removal — remove_context_section() treats
files containing only the Speckit-generated frontmatter block as
empty, deleting them rather than leaving orphaned frontmatter.
* fix: address third round of Copilot review feedback
1. CRLF-safe .mdc frontmatter check — use lstrip().startswith('---')
instead of startswith('---\n') so CRLF files don't get duplicate
frontmatter.
2. CRLF-safe .mdc removal check — normalize line endings before
comparing against the sentinel frontmatter string.
3. Call remove_context_section() during integration_uninstall() — the
manifest-only uninstall was leaving the managed SPECKIT markers
behind in the agent context file.
4. Fix stale docstring — remove 'agent_scripts' mention from
test_lean_commands_have_no_scripts().
* fix: address fourth round of Copilot review feedback
1. Remove unused script_type parameter from _write_integration_json()
and all 3 call sites — the parameter was no longer referenced after
the update-context script removal.
2. Fix _build_context_section() docstring — correct example path from
'.specify/plans/plan.md' to 'specs/<feature>/plan.md'.
3. Improve .mdc frontmatter-only detection in remove_context_section()
— use regex to match any YAML frontmatter block (not just the exact
Speckit-generated one), so .mdc files with additional frontmatter
keys are also cleaned up when no body content remains.
* fix: handle corrupted markers and parse .mdc frontmatter robustly
1. Handle partial/corrupted markers in upsert_context_section() —
if only the START marker exists (no END), replace from START
through EOF. If only the END marker exists, replace from BOF
through END. This keeps upsert idempotent even when a user
accidentally deletes one marker.
2. Parse .mdc YAML frontmatter properly — new _ensure_mdc_frontmatter()
helper parses existing frontmatter and ensures alwaysApply: true is
set, rather than just checking for the --- delimiter. Handles
missing frontmatter, existing frontmatter without alwaysApply, and
already-correct frontmatter.
* fix: preserve .mdc frontmatter, add tests, clean up on switch
1. Rewrite _ensure_mdc_frontmatter() with regex — preserves comments,
formatting, and custom keys in existing frontmatter instead of
destructively re-serializing via yaml.safe_dump(). Inserts or
fixes alwaysApply: true in place.
2. Add 6 focused .mdc frontmatter tests to cursor-agent test file:
new file creation, missing frontmatter, preserved custom keys,
wrong alwaysApply value, idempotent upserts, removal cleanup.
3. Call remove_context_section() during integration switch Phase 1 —
prevents stale SPECKIT markers from being left in the old
integration's context file. Also clear context_file from
init-options during the metadata reset.
* fix: remove unused MDC_FRONTMATTER, preserve inline comments, normalize bare CR
1. Remove unused MDC_FRONTMATTER class variable — dead code after
_ensure_mdc_frontmatter() was rewritten with regex.
2. Preserve inline comments when fixing alwaysApply — the regex
substitution now captures trailing '# comment' text and keeps it.
3. Normalize bare CR in upsert_context_section() — match the
behavior of remove_context_section() which already normalizes
both CRLF and bare CR.
4. Clarify .mdc removal comment — 'treat frontmatter-only as empty'
instead of misleading 'strip frontmatter'.
* fix: handle corrupted markers in remove, CRLF-safe end-marker consumption
1. Handle corrupted markers in remove_context_section() — mirror
upsert's behavior: start-only removes start→EOF, end-only removes
BOF→end. Previously bailed out leaving partial markers behind.
2. CRLF-safe end-marker consumption — both upsert and remove now
handle \r\n after the end marker, not just \n. Prevents extra
blank lines at replacement boundaries in CRLF files.
3. Clarify path rule in plan template — distinguish filesystem
operations (absolute paths) from documentation/agent context
references (project-relative paths).
* fix: only remove context section when both markers are well-ordered
remove_context_section() previously treated mismatched markers as
corruption and aggressively removed from BOF→end-marker or
start-marker→EOF, which could delete user-authored content if only
one marker remained. Now it only removes when both START and END
markers exist and are properly ordered, returning False otherwise.
* feat(commands): wire before/after hook events into specify and plan templates
Replicates the hook evaluation pattern from tasks.md and implement.md
(introduced in PR #1702) into the specify and plan command templates.
This completes the hook lifecycle across all SDD phases.
Changes:
- specify.md: Add before_specify/after_specify hook blocks
- plan.md: Add before_plan/after_plan hook blocks
- EXTENSION-API-REFERENCE.md: Document new hook events
- EXTENSION-USER-GUIDE.md: List all available hook events
Fixes#1788
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* Mark before_commit/after_commit as planned in extension docs
These hook events are defined in the API reference but not yet wired
into any core command template. Marking them as planned rather than
removing them, since the infrastructure supports them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Fix hook enablement to default true when field is absent
Matches HookExecutor.get_hooks_for_event() semantics where
hooks without an explicit enabled field are treated as enabled.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(docs): mark commit hooks as planned in user guide config example
The yaml config comment listed before_commit/after_commit as
"Available events" but they are not yet wired into core templates.
Moved them to a separate "Planned" line, consistent with the
API reference.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(commands): align enabled-filtering semantics across all hook templates
tasks.md and implement.md previously said "Filter to only hooks where
enabled: true", which would skip hooks that omit the enabled field.
Updated to match specify.md/plan.md and HookExecutor's h.get('enabled', True)
behavior: filter out only hooks where enabled is explicitly false.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add automated markdown linting to ensure consistent formatting across
all markdown files in the repository.
Changes:
- Add .markdownlint-cli2.jsonc configuration
- Create .github/workflows/lint.yml for CI/CD integration
- Fix all 908 existing markdown errors across 27 files
- Enforce ATX-style headings and asterisk emphasis
- Set consistent 2-space list indentation
This prevents markdown errors after project initialization and
maintains high documentation quality standards.
