speckit-constitution

To keep project governance documentation consistent across templates, you can automate constitution lifecycle management and synchronization to propagate principle updates into dependent plans, specs, and tasks automatically.

A project constitution file defines overarching governance principles and security postures. You need to version it when shifting development methodologies or security postures to ensure all documentation reflects the new standards.

You update spec-kit governance principles by invoking the skill with new principles in the prompt. It then executes hooks to perform template-based documentation updates and ensures cross-template consistency automatically.

Yes, you need a valid .specify directory structure to manage spec-kit constitution files. This environment is required to perform template-based documentation updates, versioning, and hook execution.

Dependent project templates fail to reflect constitution updates when the required .specify directory structure is missing or invalid, preventing the automated consistency propagation and hook execution from running.

The best way to automate compliance documentation updates is to use a constitution management tool that versions governance principles and automatically synchronizes those changes across all relevant project templates and task documentation.