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Archive a completed change — validate, merge specs, verify, and fan blockers out.
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| name | cospec-archive-change |
| description | Archive a completed change — validate, merge specs, verify, and fan blockers out. |
| license | MIT |
| compatibility | Requires the cospec CLI (@aligned-team/cospec). |
| metadata | {"author":"cospec","generatedBy":"cospec@0.5.1","contentHash":"sha256:ca020d07b9178b6e14f5be79916870a18884c48a6263faef141bd31f432d7def"} |
Archive a completed change. cospec archive validates it, merges its spec
deltas into the living specs, verifies the move actually happened, and fans
blocker check-offs out to sibling changes — as one coupled step.
If the user named one, use it. Otherwise run cospec list --json and pick, or
ask.
cospec archive <slug>
Relay the summary it prints verbatim: what was archived, which spec deltas were
applied (+a ~m -r →n) or skipped, which sibling changes had blocker boxes
checked, and which changes are now unblocked.
If it exits non-zero, relay the error output verbatim. Do NOT hand-mv the
change directory into openspec/changes/archive/, and do NOT re-run with a flag
you do not understand:
cospec archive <slug> --skip-specs.--force-incomplete only after the user confirms the remaining tasks are
intentionally abandoned.Never bypass validation. If a change is reported as now unblocked, offer to
/cospec-apply it next.
Run the apply gate for a change and implement its tasks, obeying the gate's exit code.
Archive a completed change — validate, merge specs, verify, and fan blockers out.
Archive a batch of completed changes in dependency order, one cospec archive call at a time.
Resume a partially-built change and finish its remaining artifacts.
Investigate the codebase or a spec question without writing implementation code.
Author every remaining artifact on an already-scaffolded change in one pass, then validate.