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LGTM for final review. Functional hardening, the combined pnpm lockfile, and the CI-derived Nix dependency hash all pass every CI/security/platform gate.

What was missing

A MODIFIED requirement must restate its complete block, so reviewers had no direct view of what changed relative to the main spec. The earlier implementation also had unsafe edge cases: JSON could lose the diff when a warning existed, discovery/read failures could be treated as missing data, chained renames could lose the original requirement name, and an empty diff was indistinguishable from no diff.

What it does

openspec show <change> --diff renders each delta requirement against the selected root's main spec:

  • MODIFIED requirements receive a unified diff with range headers that keep distant hunks unambiguous, including explicit empty diffs.
  • ADDED, REMOVED, and RENAMED requirements retain their authored meaning.
  • JSON MODIFIED entries can carry both diff and warning.
  • Chained renames resolve back to the original main-spec name.
  • Exact matches win; folded-name fallbacks warn because archive matches exactly.
  • Missing main specs/requirements warn, while discovery and non-ENOENT read failures fail closed.
  • Nested capabilities and registered stores resolve through the same root-selection path.
  • Without --diff, existing output remains unchanged.

This branch includes #1718's development-dependency update and regenerated pnpm lockfile. Merge #1718 before this PR; the stacked dependency commit then drops out cleanly.

Proof it works

  • Diff/show regressions: 36/36 passed, including distant multi-hunk output.
  • Broader show/parser/diff/store suites: 120/120 passed.
  • Version checks: 48/48 passed outside the network-restricted sandbox.
  • Build, lint, strict OpenSpec validation, and frozen pnpm 9.15.9 install pass.
  • Production and full dependency audits report no known vulnerabilities.
  • Full local suite reached 4,093 passing tests; remaining failures reproduce on clean main or require listeners denied by the sandbox.
  • Linux, macOS, Windows, security, lint, release tracking, and CodeRabbit checks pass.
  • Nix validates the combined dependency hash sha256-+qGFLSVLJ9faZOmfO6ZVBP525i5LRgwhsJat2vT7Aw8=.

Notes / nits

Adds diff (jsdiff v9, MIT) as a runtime dependency. Diffs compare files in the selected OpenSpec root, not git history, and cover spec deltas only.

Closes #427

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Walkthrough

Adds --diff support to openspec show and openspec change show. The commands compare delta requirements with base requirements and render text or JSON diffs. The change includes rename handling, removed-block parsing, CLI registration, documentation, dependency updates, and tests.

Changes

Requirement diff contracts and design

Layer / File(s) Summary
Diff behavior and parser contracts
openspec/changes/spec-diffs/*, src/core/parsers/requirement-blocks.ts
Defines text and JSON diff behavior, fallback rules, path handling, and retained removed requirement blocks.
Requirement diff utilities
src/utils/requirement-diff.ts, package.json
Extracts requirement blocks, generates unified patches with diff, and maps renamed requirements from destination names to source names.

CLI diff integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
CLI registration and command plumbing
src/cli/index.ts, src/core/completions/command-registry.ts, src/commands/show.ts, src/commands/change.ts
Registers --diff, passes it to change display, resolves base specifications from the configured root, and marks the flag as irrelevant for spec output.
Text and JSON rendering
src/commands/change.ts
Computes diffs for modified requirements, preserves operation-specific output for added, removed, and renamed requirements, and adds diff or warning fields to modified JSON entries.

Validation and supporting updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Diff and parser tests
test/utils/requirement-diff.test.ts, test/core/parsers/requirement-blocks.test.ts
Tests block extraction, patch generation, rename maps, line endings, matching rules, and removed-block parsing.
Command integration tests
test/commands/show-diff.test.ts, test/commands/store-root-selection.test.ts
Tests text and JSON output, renamed modifications, missing bases, empty delta specifications, flag handling, and store-root resolution.
Documentation and release metadata
docs/cli.md, .changeset/wide-donkeys-tap.md, flake.nix
Documents the option, records a minor release, and updates the Nix dependency source hash.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d7477

The new openspec show --json --diff path can omit the required near-match warning when it also emits a diff, and filesystem errors can still produce apparently successful incomplete output. These bounded correctness issues could mislead automated consumers and users, so merge should wait for fixes or explicit owner acceptance.

Suggested reviewers: tabishb

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Check name Status Explanation
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR implements the requested built-in specification diff feature through openspec show --diff, including modified and other requirement changes.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes support the diff feature through implementation, tests, documentation, dependency setup, release metadata, and configuration updates.
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Inline comments:
In `@openspec/changes/spec-diffs/proposal.md`:
- Around line 21-25: Update the proposal to precisely document the JSON contract
for the --diff flag: state that in JSON mode (used by openspec show / openspec
change show with --json --diff) only deltas with type MODIFIED include a "diff"
field containing the unified-diff text; ADDED, REMOVED, and RENAMED deltas do
not include "diff" (they may omit the field or include null), and cases with no
base spec return a "warning" field instead of "diff"; also document that text
mode still shows full content as all-additions for new specs and colorized
unified diffs for modified deltas, and that when --diff is used without --json
the CLI prints only diffs (no proposal text).

In `@openspec/changes/spec-diffs/specs/cli-show/spec.md`:
- Around line 44-46: The spec currently requires printing the proposal markdown
before diffs for the command "openspec show <change-name> --diff" which is
incorrect; update the text in the spec (the WHEN/THEN lines that reference
"openspec show <change-name> --diff") so that WHEN running the CLI with --diff
in text mode the output is diff-only (do not print the proposal markdown first)
and THEN describe that the CLI should iterate parsed deltas grouped by
capability for each delta spec file under
openspec/changes/<change-name>/specs/<cap>/spec.md and render only the diffs in
text form.

In `@src/commands/change.ts`:
- Around line 267-268: The loop that builds REMOVED result entries currently
uses only plan.removed (a list of names) and synthesizes raw as `###
Requirement: ${name}`, losing the original removed body. Fix by attaching the
actual removed delta body to the result.raw instead of the synthesized header:
change plan.removed to carry the full removed entry (e.g., objects like { name,
raw }) or lookup the removed text from whatever store holds original deltas
(e.g., plan.removedDeltas / removedMap) and set results.push({ capability:
capName, operation: 'REMOVED', requirementName: name, raw: originalRaw }). If
plan.removed currently only contains names, update the planner that produces
plan.removed to include bodies so the change.ts loop can use the original
removed content.
- Around line 104-112: The code always reads and prints proposal.md
(proposalPath) before choosing diff vs content, causing --diff to still show the
proposal; move the read+console.log into the non-diff branch or guard it with if
(!options?.diff) so that when options?.diff is true you only call
this.showSpecDiffs(changeName, changesPath) and do not read/print proposalPath;
keep showSpecContent(changeName, changesPath) as the branch that reads/displays
proposal.md.
- Around line 233-235: The early-return when specDirs.length === 0 currently
silences the command; update that branch in src/commands/change.ts to emit an
explicit success message to the user instead of returning silently—locate the
check for specDirs.length === 0 and replace the plain return with a user-facing
output (e.g., via console.log or the project logger) like "No changes detected"
(or the project’s standard success message) and then return; ensure you use the
same output mechanism other commands use so formatting/exit behavior remains
consistent.

In `@src/utils/requirement-diff.ts`:
- Around line 35-40: The function diffRequirementBlock currently calls .trim()
on the unified hunk output, which strips leading whitespace from the first
context line and makes the hunk incorrect; update the return in
diffRequirementBlock (the expression that takes patch.hunks.flatMap(h =>
h.lines).join('\n')) to use .trimEnd() instead of .trim() so trailing newlines
are removed but leading context spaces are preserved.

In `@test/commands/show-diff.test.ts`:
- Around line 130-209: The tests currently assert that proposal text appears
even when invoking run(... --diff), which contradicts the intended contract; for
each test that calls run('show ... --diff') (e.g., the "text mode: shows
proposal then MODIFIED and ADDED full text" test using run('show auth-update
--type change --diff'), the "text mode: shows warning when MODIFIED has no
matching base" test using run('show no-match --type change --diff'), and the
"text mode: shows only proposal when change has no delta specs" test that calls
run('show empty-change --type change --diff'), remove or change the
expect(output).toContain(...) assertions that check for proposal text (e.g.,
'Improve auth.' and 'Test reason.') so the tests assert only diff output
presence (or absence of spec sections) when --diff is provided; keep proposal
assertions only in tests that call run without --diff (like run('show
auth-update --type change')).
- Around line 100-127: The test helpers run and runWithStderr interpolate
openspecBin into shell command strings which breaks if paths contain spaces or
shell metacharacters; replace execSync calls with execFileSync(process.execPath,
[openspecBin, ...args.split(' ')], ...) to avoid shell parsing (preserve
encoding and env, and for runWithStderr set stdio to ['pipe','pipe','pipe'] and
catch the thrown error to extract stdout/stderr as done currently); update the
function signatures/comments to indicate args is a space-separated string that
will be split into an argv array and ensure process.chdir(originalCwd) remains
in the finally block.
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openspec/changes/spec-diffs/proposal.md (1)

19-25: Document the change-only constraint for --diff.

The PR objectives state that "--diff is a change-only option; using it on a non-change item emits a warning and is ignored," but this behavior isn't documented in the proposal. Readers should know that the flag only applies when showing change objects.

📝 Suggested addition to clarify scope

Consider adding a note after line 21 or in the non-goals section:

 - A `--diff` flag on `openspec show <change>` (and `openspec change show <change>`) that outputs a human-readable unified diff per delta spec
+
+Note: `--diff` only applies to change objects. Using it when showing a non-change spec will emit a warning and be ignored.

Alternatively, add to the non-goals section after line 41:

 - Diffing non-spec artifacts (proposal, design, tasks)
 - Git-aware diffing (this compares files on disk, not git history)
+- Using `--diff` on non-change items (flag is ignored with a warning)

Optional: Clarify JSON mode behavior when the base spec file doesn't exist.

Line 23 documents that when a base spec exists but a requirement block isn't found, JSON mode includes a "warning" field. It doesn't explicitly cover the edge case where the entire base spec file doesn't exist (new capability). Based on line 25's text-mode description and the PR objectives ("New delta specs...shown as all-additions"), these should presumably get a "diff" field with all-additions content rather than a warning. This is a minor edge case (new capabilities typically have only ADDED requirements, not MODIFIED), but documenting it would be thorough.

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In `@openspec/changes/spec-diffs/proposal.md` around lines 19 - 25, Add a short
note to the proposal explaining that the --diff flag is change-only: when used
on non-change items it emits a warning and is ignored (place this after the
"What this change delivers" paragraph or in non-goals), and explicitly document
JSON mode's edge-case behavior when the entire base spec file is missing by
stating that a MODIFIED delta with no base spec file should include a "diff"
field containing the all-additions unified-diff (not a "warning"), mirroring the
text-mode description; reference the `--diff` flag, "JSON mode"/"Text mode", and
the `"diff"`/`"warning"` fields when adding these clarifications.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@openspec/changes/spec-diffs/proposal.md`:
- Around line 19-25: Add a short note to the proposal explaining that the --diff
flag is change-only: when used on non-change items it emits a warning and is
ignored (place this after the "What this change delivers" paragraph or in
non-goals), and explicitly document JSON mode's edge-case behavior when the
entire base spec file is missing by stating that a MODIFIED delta with no base
spec file should include a "diff" field containing the all-additions
unified-diff (not a "warning"), mirroring the text-mode description; reference
the `--diff` flag, "JSON mode"/"Text mode", and the `"diff"`/`"warning"` fields
when adding these clarifications.

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Thanks for pushing this. The reviewer pain is real and show --diff is the right shape, but I don't think this is mergeable yet because the implementation still violates the PR's own output contract in a few places:

  • Text mode --diff still prints proposal.md before the diff because ChangeCommand.show() reads/logs the proposal before branching into showSpecDiffs(). The PR says --diff without --json should be diff-only.
  • showSpecDiffs() silently returns when there are no delta specs. The spec says this should emit a successful user-facing message.
  • REMOVED requirements lose their removal body. The result is synthesized as ### Requirement: ${name}, so Reason/Migration text is dropped from diff output.
  • diffRequirementBlock() still calls .trim(), which can strip leading whitespace from the first context line in a hunk. This should be trimEnd() so unified diff content stays faithful.
  • The new tests currently lock in the wrong text-mode behavior by asserting proposal text appears for --diff, and the shell-based helpers should avoid execSync string interpolation for path safety.

I'd fix those before merge. Once the CLI contract, JSON/text edge cases, and tests line up, I think this becomes a solid incremental feature without changing the storage model.

clay-good and others added 3 commits August 20, 2026 15:06
# Conflicts:
#	package-lock.json
#	package.json
#	pnpm-lock.yaml
#	src/commands/change.ts
Keeps `openspec show <change>` without `--diff` a raw proposal
passthrough, reports when a change has no delta specs instead of
returning silently, preserves the Reason/Migration body of a REMOVED
requirement, and resolves main specs through the command's root so
`--store <id>` diffs against that store.

Text mode and JSON mode now render from one shared collection pass, the
CLI tests drive argv arrays from a mkdtemp project instead of
interpolated shell strings, `--diff` is registered for shell
completions, and the stray package-lock.json is gone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the `diff` runtime dependency that requirement-diff.ts imports,
updates pnpm-lock.yaml, and regenerates the flake's pnpmDeps hash so
`nix build` matches the new lockfile.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@clay-good clay-good changed the title openspec show --diff feature feat(show): diff delta requirements against the main specs Aug 20, 2026
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Picked this up and pushed a merge with main plus fixes for the review points. Point by point:

  1. Text mode --diff prints the proposal first — kept, and the contract now says so in one place. proposal.md + diffs is what openspec/changes/spec-diffs/proposal.md specified; the "diffs only" line was a leftover in the PR description and is gone. The real behavior problem was the other branch: the previous revision printed full delta spec content on plain openspec show <change>, changing existing output for everyone. That is reverted — without --diff the command is a raw proposal passthrough again, pinned by a test that compares stdout to proposal.md byte for byte.
  2. Silent return with no delta specs — now prints No delta specs to diff for change "<name>". and exits 0, with a test.
  3. REMOVED loses Reason/Migration — fixed at the parser: parseDeltaSpec returns removedBlocks alongside removed, so the authored block (Reason, Migration) is printed under the red label. Bullet-list removals have no body and stay name-only.
  4. .trim() in diffRequirementBlock — already trimEnd() as of 3fb6795; there is a test asserting the leading space survives on the first context line.
  5. Tests locking in wrong behavior / execSync interpolation — the text-mode expectations follow the corrected contract, and every CLI call now goes through execFileSync/spawnSync with an argv array from a mkdtemp project instead of an interpolated string and an in-repo temp directory.

Two things beyond the list, both hardening:

  • Store awareness. Main specs were resolved from process.cwd(), so openspec show <change> --store <id> --diff diffed against whatever openspec/specs happened to sit in the working directory. They now resolve through the command's root. The regression test plants a decoy billing spec in the cwd repo and asserts the diff comes from the store.
  • One collection pass. Text mode and JSON mode had two near-identical implementations of the same lookup. They now share collectSpecDiffs(), so the two surfaces cannot drift; a new test with two MODIFIED requirements in one spec pins that each diff lands on its own delta.

nix build and nix run . -- --version verified locally with the regenerated pnpmDeps hash. Suite: 4,101 pass; the two failures (artifact-workflow Cursor skills, config-profile in-process apply) reproduce on a clean origin/main checkout.

collectSpecDiffs enumerated only top-level directories under the
change's specs/, so a nested capability (specs/<area>/<id>/spec.md) was
skipped: text mode printed nothing for it and its MODIFIED deltas came
back from --json with no diff. It now uses the same discoverSpecFiles()
helper ChangeParser uses, so the capability ids match the `spec` field
of the JSON deltas.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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openspec/changes/spec-diffs/tasks.md (1)

7-15: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Align the checklist with the implemented paths and API.

Lines 7 and 12 reference src/utils/requirement-block.ts, but the implementation inventory uses src/utils/requirement-diff.ts. Lines 24-25 require ChangeParser.parseDeltaSpecs(), while collectSpecDiffs in src/commands/change.ts:187-279 reads the files and calls parseDeltaSpec(). Update the checklist or align the implementation with it. Stale references make completion checks unreliable.

Also applies to: 24-30

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In `@openspec/changes/spec-diffs/tasks.md` around lines 7 - 15, Update the
checklist references to match the implemented API: use
src/utils/requirement-diff.ts for the requirement-block utilities, and replace
references to ChangeParser.parseDeltaSpecs() with the existing parseDeltaSpec()
flow used by collectSpecDiffs. Apply the same corrections to the additional
affected checklist items so completion checks reflect the actual implementation.
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Inline comments:
In `@openspec/changes/spec-diffs/proposal.md`:
- Line 25: The text-mode output description in printDiffText must accurately
document REMOVED deltas: describe the rendered full removed requirement block,
including its Reason and Migration content, rather than saying only the
requirement name is printed.

In `@openspec/changes/spec-diffs/specs/cli-show/spec.md`:
- Line 38: Update collectSpecDiffs so a MODIFIED requirement with no matching
main-spec requirement or RENAMED entry produces the full-text additions diff
with a warning, rather than treating it as an unannotated new capability;
preserve the existing behavior for matched requirements and explicitly handle
the missing-main-spec case consistently with the spec.

In `@src/commands/change.ts`:
- Around line 260-265: Update normalizeRequirementName to collapse consecutive
internal whitespace as well as trim outer whitespace, producing a consistent
comparison key for names such as “User  Access” and “User Access”. Ensure
buildRenameMap and extractRequirementBlock continue using this shared normalized
value for renamed and modified requirements.

In `@test/commands/show-diff.test.ts`:
- Around line 130-145: The show-diff tests should verify proposal-first ordering
rather than only fragment presence. Update both text-mode cases around the
relevant test descriptions to assert that “Improve auth.” and “Rename.” occur
before “Specifications Changed (diffs)” or the first diff marker, while
preserving the renderer’s ADDED-before-MODIFIED ordering.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@openspec/changes/spec-diffs/tasks.md`:
- Around line 7-15: Update the checklist references to match the implemented
API: use src/utils/requirement-diff.ts for the requirement-block utilities, and
replace references to ChangeParser.parseDeltaSpecs() with the existing
parseDeltaSpec() flow used by collectSpecDiffs. Apply the same corrections to
the additional affected checklist items so completion checks reflect the actual
implementation.
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One more fix on top of the review round: collectSpecDiffs() enumerated only top-level directories under the change's specs/, so a nested capability (specs/<area>/<id>/spec.md, supported since #1353) was skipped entirely — no text output, and its MODIFIED deltas came back from --json with no diff field. It now uses the same discoverSpecFiles() helper ChangeParser uses, which also keeps the capability ids identical to the spec field of the JSON deltas. The regression test fails on the old enumeration and passes on the new one. Suite: 4,102 pass, same two pre-existing main failures.

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Two cases where --diff quietly showed something misleading:

A MODIFIED requirement whose capability has no main spec was rendered as
all-additions, which reads like a new capability. It is an authoring
error archive will reject, so it now prints the raw text with a warning
naming the missing spec.

A header that differs from the main spec only in case or interior
spacing found no match at all under exact lookup, or matched under a
lowercase-only comparison that let a real mismatch through silently.
Lookup is now exact first, then the shared foldRequirementName fallback,
and a folded match prints the diff the author meant alongside a warning
that archive matches names exactly.

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Working through CodeRabbit's latest pass — all three land, two as code and one as a contract correction:

Missing main spec on a MODIFIED requirement (change.ts) — was rendered as all-additions, which reads like a new capability. A MODIFIED requirement names a block that is supposed to already exist, so that combination is an authoring error archive will reject. It now prints the raw text with No main spec at openspec/specs/<cap>/spec.md, so MODIFIED requirement "<name>" has nothing to diff against, and JSON gets warning with no diff.

Interior whitespace in requirement names — real, and the fix runs the other direction from "just normalize it". openspec matches requirement names exactly (normalizeRequirementName trims and nothing else; foldRequirementName exists precisely because a case- or spacing-only difference "means a mistake, never two requirements"). Loosening the diff lookup would have made --diff succeed where archive fails, hiding the problem. The lookup is now exact first, then the shared fold as a fallback, and a folded match prints both the diff the author meant and a warning: Header differs from the main spec's "User login" only in case or spacing; archive matches names exactly, so reconcile them before archiving. The previous revision's .toLowerCase() comparison had the same blind spot and is gone.

REMOVED contract in proposal.md — corrected; the text said "shows the requirement name" while printDiffText() prints the authored removal block. The proposal now describes the rendered block, Reason and Migration included.

Nothing outstanding from your earlier round: the JSON contract in the proposal already spells out MODIFIED-only diff and the warning fallback, and the text-mode "proposal first" question was settled upthread (proposal first, diffs after) — the actual defect there was the old revision printing delta content on plain openspec show <change>, which is reverted and pinned by a test.

Suite: 4,106 pass; the two remaining failures reproduce on a clean origin/main worktree and pass in CI.

Comment and locals still called the main spec the "base" spec, and the
no-main-spec comment described the old all-additions behavior.

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325-329: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve the near-match warning in JSON output.

Lines 325-329 use else if. A folded header match creates both entry.diff and entry.warning, but JSON receives only diff. The documented contract requires both fields.

  • src/commands/change.ts#L325-L329: assign diff and warning independently.
  • test/commands/show-diff.test.ts#L238-L269: run the same fixture with --json --diff and assert that the MODIFIED delta has both diff and warning.
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         if (entry.diff !== undefined) {
           (modifiedDeltas[i] as DeltaWithDiff).diff = entry.diff;
-        } else if (entry.warning !== undefined) {
+        }
+        if (entry.warning !== undefined) {
           (modifiedDeltas[i] as DeltaWithDiff).warning = entry.warning;
         }
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dependabot Bot and others added 4 commits August 24, 2026 01:45
Bumps the development-dependencies group with 2 updates: [smol-toml](https://github.com/squirrelchat/smol-toml) and [typescript-eslint](https://github.com/typescript-eslint/typescript-eslint/tree/HEAD/packages/typescript-eslint).


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clay-good dismissed alfred-openspec’s stale review August 26, 2026 19:27

Superseded: alfred's punch list was addressed; verified on the current head.

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Feature Request: Provide an openspec diff command to show differences between a spec and its modified version.

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