openspec-archive-change

To archive completed changes, execute the archive-change command with the openspec CLI and specify the change name. The workflow validates completion status, checks delta spec synchronization, and provides a summary of the archived artifacts.

If artifact or task completion checks fail during change archiving, the process issues warnings for incomplete items and prompts for user confirmation before proceeding. This ensures you explicitly approve finalizing changes with missing or incomplete artifacts.

You do not need to manually provide a change name when archiving in openspec if it is unspecified. The workflow dynamically prompts you to select the target change name before validating completion status and proceeding with archiving.

Delta spec synchronization is handled as a critical part of the archiving workflow. The process parses JSON output from the openspec CLI to verify completion status, ensuring delta specs are synced before finalizing and storing the implemented changes.

You can finalize and store experimental workflow changes with incomplete tasks, but the workflow provides error handling warnings and requires explicit user confirmation at critical steps before allowing the archive process to complete.

After archiving a completed change, the workflow displays a detailed summary including the schema used for archiving and whether the delta specifications were successfully synced during the finalization process.