openspec-onboard

A guided OpenSpec onboarding workflow provides phase-by-phase prompts to standardize codebase change management. You need it when your team requires consistent guidance for creating proposals, specs, and tasks to streamline project lifecycle execution.

Starting an OpenSpec onboarding session involves running the workflow to enter Preflight and Welcome phases. Interactive prompts then guide you through Task Selection to create and manage your first change with structured artifact templates.

The OpenSpec change management lifecycle includes Preflight, Welcome, Task Selection, Explore Demo, Create Change, Proposal, Specs, Design, Tasks, Apply, Archive, and Recap phases, enforcing sequential completion before proceeding.

Yes, you can use OpenSpec onboarding without prior experience because interactive prompts and validations enforce completion of each phase. Artifact templates ensure consistent proposals and designs to accelerate team learning and adoption.

OpenSpec onboarding preserves audit trails via the Archive phase, which stores completed work and artifacts for future reference. This ensures structured task execution records remain accessible for learning and compliance review.

A limitation of phase-driven onboarding is that interactive prompts enforce strict sequential completion of each phase before proceeding. This structured workflow may restrict flexibility for teams needing rapid, non-linear change discovery and execution.