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Closes #1873.

Why

Six entries in LEGACY_SLASH_COMMAND_PATHS (src/core/legacy-cleanup.ts:36-41)
were directory entries: Claude Code, CodeBuddy, Qoder, Lingma, Crush and
Gemini CLI, each at <tool>/commands/openspec/. Detection flagged the folder
whenever it existed (:321-323). Cleanup then ran
fs.rm(fullPath, { recursive: true, force: true }) (:555), deleting everything
in it. Users keep their own commands in that folder, and they went with
OpenSpec's three old ones:

  • The upgrade prompt listed the folder under "Files to remove / No user content
    to preserve".
  • The summary said ✓ Removed .claude/commands/openspec/.

So nothing ever told the user their files had been in it.

openspec init runs this cleanup automatically when --force is set or when
there is no TTY
(src/core/init.ts:500-501). So an agent or CI running plain
openspec init --tools claude deleted the files without a prompt.
openspec update --force uses the same function.

The file already names the hazard for CoStrict (:69-71), which #1492 made
file-scoped. The directory entries never got the same treatment.

What Changes

  • Each directory entry now lists the files OpenSpec wrote there, in a new
    managedFileNames. The names come from the slash configurators removed in
    feat(cli): merge init and experimental commands #565: proposal.md, apply.md and archive.md, or .toml for Gemini.
    Lingma is the exception. Its support arrived after the opsx rename and has
    always written to .lingma/commands/opsx/, so OpenSpec never wrote a file
    into .lingma/commands/openspec/, and its list is empty.
  • Detection:
    • A folder holding only those files, or nothing, is reported as a folder,
      exactly as before.
    • A folder that also holds anything else has only OpenSpec's files reported,
      one by one. The upgrade prompt then lists exactly what will be deleted.
    • A folder holding none of OpenSpec's files is not reported at all.
  • Cleanup deletes only managed files. It then removes the folder with a
    non-recursive rmdir, and only if the folder is empty. Anything left is
    recorded in a new optional CleanupResult.keptFiles and printed as
    • Kept .claude/commands/openspec/team-review.md (not created by OpenSpec).
    This also protects a file added between detection and cleanup, for example
    while the interactive prompt waits.
  • Files reported from a mixed folder map back to their tool. So
    getToolsFromLegacyArtifacts and omitToolLegacyArtifacts treat them like any
    other legacy file. The second is what the legacy-upgrade path uses to skip a
    tool whose replacement was not written.
  • Ownership is checked by content, not just by name. A managed file counts as OpenSpec's only when it is a regular file whose content still carries the OpenSpec markers every legacy command was generated with. Cleanup re-checks that right before each unlink, so a same-named file the user wrote (or swapped in while the prompt waited) is kept. A symlinked command folder is never followed.

The common upgrade is unchanged: a folder holding only OpenSpec's files is
removed as before, with the same prompt line and the same summary line.

Testing

New file test/core/legacy-cleanup.user-files.test.ts, now 30 tests. The first
24 were written first: on clean 9d4e597 they gave 15 failed and 9 passed, every
failure a bug assertion and every control passing. The later ownership and
recheck tests each fail without the change that added them. With the fix, all 30
pass.

Edge cases covered:

  • Per tool (claude, codebuddy, qoder, crush, gemini): a folder of only
    OpenSpec files is still removed (control). A user file in it is kept, the
    OpenSpec files are deleted, the folder stays, and the files map back to the
    tool.
  • A nested folder of user commands is kept, and so is a folder named like a
    legacy file (apply.md/).
  • A Gemini proposal.md is kept while proposal.toml is removed.
  • A folder holding no OpenSpec files is neither reported nor touched.
  • Lingma files are left alone. An empty leftover folder is still removed.
  • A file added between detection and cleanup is kept.
  • A user-authored file that only shares a legacy command name is kept, alone or
    beside OpenSpec's files, and a symlinked command folder is never followed.
  • A proposal.md the user swaps in between detection and cleanup, or after
    cleanup has scanned the folder, is kept and reported as kept.
  • The upgrade prompt lists OpenSpec's files, not the folder. The summary names
    what was kept and never claims the folder was removed.
  • When omitToolLegacyArtifacts skips the tool, a mixed folder is untouched.
  • A guard fails if a new directory entry is added without a test row.
  • End to end: openspec init --tools claude keeps team-review.md, both
    without a TTY and with --force. It still removes a folder of only OpenSpec
    files.

Two existing tests encoded the old behaviour and were updated:

  • test/core/update.test.ts › "should cleanup legacy slash command
    directories with --force". Its fixture was old-command.md, a file OpenSpec
    never wrote, and it asserted that such a file is deleted along with the folder.
    That is the behaviour this PR removes. The fixture is now proposal.md, and
    the assertions are unchanged.
  • test/core/legacy-cleanup.test.ts › "should include expected tool
    patterns". It compares the claude entry with toEqual, so it now includes
    managedFileNames.

Verification

Run in a Linux sandbox under Node 20.19.0, the CI version, on 9d4e597 with
this patch:

  • pnpm run build: ok
  • pnpm exec tsc --noEmit: ok
  • pnpm lint: ok
  • Targeted (legacy-cleanup.user-files, legacy-cleanup, update, init):
    all passed
  • Full suite, VITEST_MAX_WORKERS=4 pnpm test: 4579 passed and 8 failed, in 5
    files. The 5 files are store-references, store-root-selection, store,
    workset and package-install-scripts, none of which touches legacy
    cleanup. Every failure was a 10-second test timeout on a shared, heavily
    loaded machine (load average 6 to 13).

None of these failures come from this change:

  • store-references, store-root-selection, workset and
    package-install-scripts fail the same tests, the same way, on clean
    9d4e597 under the same load.
  • store passes 43/43 on this branch and on clean 9d4e597 when run
    side by side. Its two slow tests take 8.6 to 9.0 seconds even on
    9d4e597.
  • Only init.ts and update.ts import legacy-cleanup.ts, and none of the
    store or workset commands reach either one.

Changeset

Added .changeset/legacy-cleanup-keeps-user-files.md (patch).

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Legacy cleanup now removes only files generated by OpenSpec, preserving user-created files with matching names.
    • Symlinked command folders and files without OpenSpec markers are protected from removal.
    • Cleanup summaries now list retained files and remove legacy folders only when empty.

Legacy cleanup removed each pre-skills tool's <tool>/commands/openspec/ folder recursively whenever it existed, deleting any command the user kept there along with OpenSpec's three files. init runs that cleanup unprompted when there is no TTY, so agents and CI lost those files without --force.

Directory entries now name the files OpenSpec wrote there. Cleanup deletes only those, removes the folder only once nothing else is left in it, and reports each entry it kept. A folder holding none of OpenSpec's files is no longer treated as legacy, and a folder holding only them is removed exactly as before.
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Walkthrough

Legacy cleanup now identifies OpenSpec-managed files by filename and markers. It preserves user files, avoids symlink traversal, removes directories only when empty, reports retained files, and updates related tests and changeset documentation.

Changes

Legacy cleanup preservation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Managed file detection and ownership
src/core/legacy-cleanup.ts
Directory-based integrations now define managed filenames. Detection inspects entries without following symlinked folders and verifies marker-bearing regular files.
Managed cleanup and retained-file reporting
src/core/legacy-cleanup.ts
Cleanup rechecks file ownership before deletion, removes only OpenSpec-managed files, removes empty directories, and reports retained entries.
Behavior validation and migration documentation
test/core/legacy-cleanup.test.ts, test/core/legacy-cleanup.user-files.test.ts, test/core/update.test.ts, .changeset/legacy-cleanup-keeps-user-files.md
Tests cover user-file preservation, replaced files, symlinked folders, managed filenames, and marker-based fixtures. The changeset documents the updated behavior.

Priority: ⬆️ High

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Suggested reviewers: clay-good

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5c546

A user file replacing a previously detected command file can still be deleted during cleanup. Revalidate ownership before deleting directory entries before merging.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning Issue #1873 requires deletion of only OpenSpec-managed files, preservation of user files and nested folders, directory removal only after it becomes empty, reporting of retained files, and no action o… Do not detect or remove a legacy command directory unless detection finds at least one regular OpenSpec-managed file. Remove or revise the Lingma empty-directory cleanup behavior and update its test to verify preservation.
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Check name Status Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The source, tests, and changeset document the cleanup behavior required by issue #1873. Marker validation, race-time replacement checks, symlink handling, tool mapping, retained-file reporting, and no…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 83.33% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 12 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: 1 …
Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preserving user files during legacy command-folder cleanup in init.
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Issue #1873 requires deletion of only OpenSpec-managed files, preservation of user files and nested folders, directory removal only after it becomes empty, reporting of retained files, and no action on directories with no OpenSpec-managed files. The changes implement marker-based ownership checks, replacement checks, symlink-safe reads, mixed-content cleanup, retained-file reporting, and tests for non-empty user content. However, lingma is configured with managedFileNames: [], and detectLegacySlashCommands still classifies an empty .lingma/commands/openspec directory as a legacy directory because entries.others.length === 0. Cleanup then removes it. The test still removes an empty leftover legacy folder confirms behavior that conflicts with #1873's requirement to leave directories containing no OpenSpec-managed files untouched.

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docs/ is legacy; the canonical docs-lab page (help/legacy/migration.md) is
still a skeleton, so there is nothing to update there yet.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Legacy cleanup treated any regular file named proposal/apply/archive in a
<tool>/commands/openspec/ folder as OpenSpec's, so a user-authored file
with one of those names, including one swapped in while the upgrade prompt
waited, was still deleted.

Every legacy slash command was generated with the OpenSpec markers, and
OpenSpec refused to update one without them. A file now counts as
OpenSpec's only when its content still carries them, and cleanup checks
that again immediately before each unlink. A symlinked command folder is
never followed. Test fixtures now use marker-wrapped content like the real
generated files.

Closes Fission-AI#1873

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Hardening pushed for merge:

  • 5c5462e fix(init): a legacy command file now counts as OpenSpec's only when it is a regular file with a managed name whose content still carries the OpenSpec markers (every legacy command was generated with them). Cleanup re-checks this right before each unlink, and a symlinked command folder is never followed. This resolves the CodeRabbit ownership thread. Existing update/legacy-cleanup fixtures now use marker-wrapped content like real generated files. The new tests (same-named user file, replacement between detection and cleanup, symlinked folder) fail on the previous head.
  • 63cf652 docs: dropped the docs/migration-guide.md edit. docs/ is legacy and the canonical docs-lab page (help/legacy/migration.md) is still a skeleton.

Verified: build, tsc, lint; legacy-cleanup, legacy-cleanup.user-files, update, init tests 417/417. A real openspec init --tools claude repro on main deleted the whole folder; now only the generated file goes.

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🟠 Major · Revalidate ownership before each directory-file deletion. · src/core/legacy-cleanup.ts:684-684

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Revalidate ownership before each directory-file deletion.

readLegacyCommandDir classifies managed entries once. The directory cleanup loop then calls fs.unlink for every name in entries.managed without calling isGeneratedLegacyCommand again. If a user replaces a classified file after that scan, cleanup can delete the replacement and report it as deleted.

Call isGeneratedLegacyCommand immediately before each unlink. Record only files that pass this final check as deleted. Add a regression test that replaces proposal.md after directory scanning.

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…nup deletes it

The directory cleanup loop classified a folder's managed files once and then
unlinked every one of them. A file the user swapped in after that scan was
deleted and reported as deleted. Each file is now checked for the OpenSpec
markers immediately before its unlink; a file that fails the check is kept
and reported as kept.

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Second pass, answering CodeRabbit's outside-diff finding at src/core/legacy-cleanup.ts:684 (revalidate ownership before each directory-file deletion): confirmed. The per-file loop rechecked before each unlink, but the directory loop unlinked every name the scan had classified without checking again, so a file swapped in after that scan was deleted and reported as deleted.

Fixed in cf9e9cc: each file in the directory loop is now checked for the OpenSpec markers immediately before its unlink. Only files that pass are recorded as deleted; a file that fails is left in place, so the folder is not removed and the file is reported under "Kept".

Regression test: keeps proposal.md when the user replaces it after cleanup has scanned the folder in test/core/legacy-cleanup.user-files.test.ts. It swaps in a user's proposal.md right after cleanup's own scan reads the generated one. It fails without the fix and passes with it.

Also re-verified the marker assumption for every directory entry against the old generators: Claude Code, CodeBuddy, Qoder and Crush wrote markdown through the shared base configurator, and Gemini CLI wrote .toml with the markers inside the prompt string, in every version from its first commit. All of them refused to update a file that had lost its markers. Lingma never wrote into commands/openspec/.

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Legacy cleanup now identifies OpenSpec-owned files by both name and markers, rechecks ownership before unlinking, never follows linked command folders, and removes directories only when empty. Focused cleanup and update tests pass; the current canonical docs remain accurate because they do not promise recursive legacy-folder deletion.

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…ks (Fission-AI#1905)

isGeneratedLegacyCommand lstat'ed a path and then re-read it by path, so the
file judged "generated" could differ from the file read (CodeQL
js/file-system-race, alert Fission-AI#524, added by Fission-AI#1874). Open once with
O_NOFOLLOW|O_NONBLOCK, fstat that handle, and read from it. Windows lacks
O_NOFOLLOW, so links are still refused there via lstat.

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