OpenSpec
The OpenSpec CLI and toolkit itself, developed with its own change-folder workflow — "OpenSpec is built with OpenSpec".
Reviewed 3 months ago · Jul 18, 2026
- Stars
- 72.1K
- Contributors
- 145
- Open issues
- 190
- Age
- 1.2 years
- Last push
- 12 hours ago
- Latest release
- v1.14.2 Oct 15, 2026
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Metrics updated Oct 16, 2026 · collected automatically from the GitHub API
Spec structure
- Location
openspec/- Formats
- Markdown
- Notes
specs/holds 36 capability spec directories (e.g.cli-init,artifact-graph);changes/holds in-flight change folders plus an archive; alsoconfig.yaml,explorations/,initiatives/, andwork/.
Assessment drift: none
Spec-to-code drift
None observed. The openspec/ directory was last modified the same day as the repository’s latest push, with 36
living capability specs and over a dozen changes in flight. Specs demonstrably move with the code — this is the
reference case for what healthy SDD looks like in the wild.
Defects and rework
Not yet assessed. As the flagship dogfooding case, an interesting question for a future review is how often archived changes get reopened or superseded — the change archive makes that unusually observable.
Maintenance outcomes
The project migrated its own workflow from the legacy command set to OPSX using its change-folder process, and the migration artifacts are visible in-tree. Surviving a breaking rebuild of your own methodology while using that methodology is a meaningful early signal, though the project is still under a year old.
Timeline
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v1.6.0 "OPSX Update, Tool Support" released
The rebuilt artifact-guided OPSX workflow became the default.
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Repository created