What problem does it solve?
This Skill solves the chaos of ad hoc AI-assisted development by enforcing a document-driven workflow for initializing repositories, creating scoped changes, validating progress, and archiving accepted work consistently.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Change-ready initialization: Brings a repository into an OSpec-managed state with protocol files, project knowledge docs, and AI guidance instead of relying on manual setup.
- Structured change execution: Supports creating and advancing one requirement, bug fix, refactor, or documentation update through explicit change containers and tracked workflow files.
- Verification and closeout: Promotes disciplined validation with verify, archive, and finalize flows before a change is considered complete.
- Plugin-aware delivery: Handles workflow gates for design review and automated runtime checks through Stitch and Checkpoint plugin rules.
- Use case: A team wants Codex or Claude Code to initialize a repo, generate baseline project docs, create a change for a new requirement, block on required design review, and archive the change only after verification passes.
Quick Start
Use ospec to initialize this project and leave it in a change-ready state without creating the first change automatically.