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What

Adds an OpenSpec change proposal for project-scoped store registry discovery (issue #1950).

Why

OpenSpec stores (beta) use a machine-level registry. After cloning a repo that references a store, every developer must manually run openspec store register <path>. A second checkout of the same store on the same machine cannot be registered under the same ID. This makes stores impractical for meta-repositories, side-by-side clones, and any workflow where store bindings should travel with the repository.

What's in this PR

Planning artifacts only — no code changes:

  • openspec/changes/project-scoped-store-discovery/proposal.md — why and what
  • openspec/changes/project-scoped-store-discovery/specs/store-discovery/spec.md — 6 requirements, 16 scenarios
  • openspec/changes/project-scoped-store-discovery/design.md — 8 design decisions (D1-D8), including 3 approaches for registry merge semantics with rationale for the chosen approach
  • openspec/changes/project-scoped-store-discovery/tasks.md — 7 task groups, 19 implementation tasks

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Refs #1950

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  • Documentation
    • Added specifications for project-scoped store registries, including ancestor-directory discovery, path resolution, global fallback, and handling of malformed registries or missing folders.
    • Documented project-scope options for store registration, listing, unregistration, removal, and diagnosis.
  • Planned Features
    • Project entries are planned to take precedence over global entries with matching IDs; projects without a registry will retain existing behavior.
    • Project-scoped removal is planned to require confirmation, including --yes for non-interactive use.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change documents project-scoped store registries. It specifies ancestor discovery, project-over-global lookup, registry operations, path validation, and planned implementation and verification tasks.

Changes

Project-scoped store discovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Registry format and discovery
openspec/changes/project-scoped-store-discovery/.openspec.yaml, openspec/changes/project-scoped-store-discovery/proposal.md, openspec/changes/project-scoped-store-discovery/design.md, openspec/changes/project-scoped-store-discovery/specs/store-discovery/spec.md, openspec/changes/project-scoped-store-discovery/tasks.md
The proposal, design, specification, and tasks describe the project registry format, ancestor discovery, relative paths, malformed-registry handling, root selection, and project-over-global resolution precedence.
Project-scoped registry operations
openspec/changes/project-scoped-store-discovery/design.md, openspec/changes/project-scoped-store-discovery/specs/store-discovery/spec.md, openspec/changes/project-scoped-store-discovery/tasks.md
The design, specification, and tasks define project-scoped registration, listing, unregistration, removal, and doctor behavior, including path constraints and removal confirmation.
Implementation and verification plan
openspec/changes/project-scoped-store-discovery/proposal.md, openspec/changes/project-scoped-store-discovery/tasks.md
The proposal identifies affected areas. The task list plans integration tests, edge-case tests, and documentation.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: alfred-openspec

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ea878

This planning-only change specifies that confirmed removal can delete a matching store outside the project. Define a safe boundary before relying on this plan to avoid unintended loss of external store data.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to a5e85

This PR changes the proposed design, not running behavior. Confirmation remains mandatory, but the design leaves important limits on deletion targets and safe retry behavior unresolved before implementation.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The proposed removal path grants repository-controlled registry entries authority to select deletion targets without consume-time containment or explicit authorization for outside-project paths. Registration rejects outside-project paths, but the design explicitly leaves hand-edited entries unvalidated and accepts absolute paths. A crafted entry could therefore target another accessible store with matching metadata when the user confirms removal or supplies --yes. This is a proposed-design risk, not a verified runtime vulnerability.
  • Medium · security · inferred: The removal contract does not define stable target identity across interruption and retries. Removing the nearest binding exposes an ancestor binding with the same ID, so repeating an ID-only removal can select a different store. Reusing the existing registry-first deletion sequence would also expose that ancestor after an interrupted or failed filesystem cleanup. Interactive confirmation limits this risk, but non-interactive --yes retries would lack that checkpoint. The existing partial-cleanup behavior predates this PR; layered lookup introduces the new retargeting possibility.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — If implemented as documented, repository-controlled paths could select matching store folders outside the checkout and ancestor registry bindings writable by the invoking user. The relevant authority is the user's existing filesystem access, not a new operating-system privilege. Confirmation and metadata checks constrain reachability.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The conditional design attack path is control of a discovered project registry, selection of an outside-checkout store path with a matching ID, and an approved or --yes removal reaching recursive deletion. No implemented project-scoped attack path or verified vulnerability is established by this PR.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The design moves path-bearing selection input into a repository-travelling file. Its outside-project validation applies only when registering, and hand-edited entries are explicitly not validated. Mandatory confirmation remains an independent control, but does not itself restrict which store the registry may nominate.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Existing removal deliberately commits registry deletion before recursive filesystem cleanup, preferring orphan files to a registration pointing at missing files. It checks the expected backend and nested registrations before committing. This pre-existing policy needs an explicit recovery contract when deleting a binding changes subsequent ancestor lookup.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define removal-time authorization for canonical store paths, including parent traversal and symlink behavior. Either enforce an explicit project boundary or require separate authorization for external targets. Preserve nested-store protection across relevant registry scopes, not only the registry being edited.
  • proposed — Bind destructive intent to the owning registry, exact entry and canonical target throughout confirmation and commit. Specify interruption recovery and retries so repeating a removal cannot silently advance to a different ancestor binding, and make partial-cleanup state explicit.
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In `@openspec/changes/project-scoped-store-discovery/design.md`:
- Line 55: Use a single resolved project root for both registry discovery and
project-scoped store writes; do not derive projectRoot directly from
process.cwd(). Thread that root, or one shared startPath, through the store CLI
flow and all project-scoped operations while preserving the existing
findRepoPlanningRootSync nearest-root behavior.
- Line 67: Define the no-`--store` behavior for project-registry discovery when
no nearest `openspec/` root exists: specify whether selection requires an
explicit store ID, uses a declared default, or only provides a hint without
selecting a store. Apply the chosen rule consistently in D5 before
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- Around line 49-50: Correct the relative-path example in the store discovery
specification: since registry.yaml is inside .openspec-store, make path: specs
resolve to /project/.openspec-store/specs, or use path: ../specs if the expected
store root remains /project/specs. Keep the documented path-resolution rule
consistent with the example.
- Around line 77-78: Update RootSelectionDiagnostic and resolveRootForCommand so
malformed or unsupported project registries produce recoverable diagnostics,
while resolving the requested store from the global registry when possible.
Specify human-mode warnings and successful fallback exit status, and make JSON
output include both the diagnostic and the selected global root with source:
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- Line 115: Update the project-scope store path containment check to reject both
relative paths beginning with `..` and absolute results, so cross-drive Windows
paths cannot be registered; add a test covering a project on one drive and a
store on another.
- Line 139: Update removeStore and prepareStoreCleanup to verify the resolved
store root is contained within the owning project root before removing the
registry entry or deleting the folder. Reject paths outside that root without
changing either the registry or filesystem; apply the check regardless of
confirmation mode, including --yes.

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🟡 Minor · Resolve each reference by the nearest matching registry. · tasks.md:37-39

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Resolve each reference by the nearest matching registry.

The design and spec require a per-ID walk: stop at the nearest project registry containing the ID, then use the global registry only if every project registry misses. Task 5.1 instead asks for a merged registry, and tasks 5.2–5.3 pass only findProjectRegistryDir’s nearest-directory-or-null result. A merged map can let an ancestor overwrite a nearer entry, and the tasks do not define the null handoff. Specify that assembleReferenceIndex receives the ordered result of walkProjectStoreRegistries(startPath), checks registries in order for each ID, and falls back to the global registry only after a project miss.

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-- [ ] 5.1 Update `assembleReferenceIndex` in `src/core/references.ts` to resolve referenced store IDs through the merged registry (project-scoped + global): a nearest-first walk of the ancestor chain, merged above global entries, with project entries staying resolvable even when the global registry is unreadable — verify with a unit test that references resolve from merged entries drawn from the chain
-- [ ] 5.2 Update `src/commands/shared-gather.ts` to pass the project-scoped registry directory (discovered via `findProjectRegistryDir`) to `assembleReferenceIndex` — verify with a unit test that shared gathering uses the merged registry
-- [ ] 5.3 Update `src/commands/workflow/instructions.ts` to pass the project-scoped registry directory to `assembleReferenceIndex` — verify with a unit test that workflow instruction generation uses the merged registry
+- [ ] 5.1 Update `assembleReferenceIndex` in `src/core/references.ts` to accept the ordered result of `walkProjectStoreRegistries(startPath)` and resolve each referenced store ID from the first registry containing it; consult the global registry only if no project registry contains the ID. Do not merge registry entries. Keep project hits resolvable when the global registry is unreadable — verify nearest-match, global-fallback, and unreadable-global cases
+- [ ] 5.2 Update `src/commands/shared-gather.ts` to pass the ordered result of `walkProjectStoreRegistries(startPath)` to `assembleReferenceIndex`, including an empty list when no project registries are found — verify shared gathering uses per-ID nearest-match resolution
+- [ ] 5.3 Update `src/commands/workflow/instructions.ts` to pass the ordered result of `walkProjectStoreRegistries(startPath)` to `assembleReferenceIndex`, including an empty list when no project registries are found — verify workflow instruction generation uses per-ID nearest-match resolution
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Update tasks 5.1–5.3 to specify per-ID resolution in assembleReferenceIndex:
pass the ordered project registries from walkProjectStoreRegistries(startPath),
select the nearest registry containing each ID, and consult the global registry
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- Around line 37-39: Update tasks 5.1–5.3 to specify per-ID resolution in
assembleReferenceIndex: pass the ordered project registries from
walkProjectStoreRegistries(startPath), select the nearest registry containing
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Baurin Vladislav added 6 commits October 8, 2026 11:15
Adds an OpenSpec change proposing a project-scoped store registry
(`.openspec-store/registry.yaml`) discovered by walking up from cwd.
Spec only; no code changes.

Refs Fission-AI#1950
- Split multi-SHALL requirements into one-SHALL-per-requirement
- Clarify document order wording in spec and design (D5)
- Add store_path_outside_project and store_remove_confirmation_required error codes to scenarios

Refs Fission-AI#1950
- D8: clarify isAbsolute check for cross-drive paths (Fission-AI#5)
- Task 2.4: add 'usable' to default root selection (Fission-AI#7)
- New scenario: discovery skips unusable entry with warning (Fission-AI#7.1)
- New scenario: store ID found but folder missing is an error (Fission-AI#7.2)
- Clarify list scenario: mark winner for duplicate IDs (Fission-AI#7.3)

Refs Fission-AI#1950
- Discovery: first entry, if folder missing → error (not skip)
- New scenarios: store list warning, doctor report, unregister warning, remove refused
- Remove "usable" from D5/spec/tasks — first entry, not first usable
- List scenario: nearest first, first entry wins for duplicate IDs
- Fix path resolution wording: "directory containing .openspec-store/"
- D8: clarify isAbsolute check for cross-drive paths
- D9: add missing-folder behavior for remove (atomic error) and unregister (warning+success)
- New tasks 4.6, 4.7 for store list and doctor missing-folder behavior

Refs Fission-AI#1950
- Remove D8 (store_path_outside_project) — breaks UC-1 where
  registry is in .gitignore and ../paths are valid
- D3: explicitly accept relative (../) and absolute paths
- New spec scenario: absolute and parent paths are accepted
- Renumber D9 → D8, update D6 and task 4.1 references
- New task 2.5: --store with missing folder → error, no fallback
- Task 3.1: accept all path types without validation

Refs Fission-AI#1950
Replace "registry file's directory" with "directory containing
.openspec-store/" across design.md, spec.md, and tasks.md so the
path resolution base is unambiguous and matches D3.

Refs Fission-AI#1950
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