spectra-archive

Archiving completed changes preserves provenance and enables auditing by moving finalized artifacts to openspec/changes/archive with date-stamped paths. This workflow handles change selection, artifact completion checks, and delta-spec synchronization assessment to maintain a verifiable audit trail.

Managing change archival workflows requires validating delta-spec synchronization before finalizing the archive. This process checks artifact completion, assesses delta-spec alignment, and executes archiving to ensure completed changes meet governance and auditing requirements.

You need the spectra CLI to archive changes to the openspec directory. The archival workflow requires this CLI to validate prerequisites, prompt for user input when change selection is ambiguous, and execute the final archiving process.

Artifact completion validation checks whether all required artifacts are finalized before archiving a change. This ensures only fully completed changes are moved to the archive store, preventing incomplete workflows from compromising provenance and audit integrity.

You can select a specific completed change to archive when multiple changes exist. The workflow prompts for change selection when the target is ambiguous, ensuring the correct change is archived with its delta-specs and artifacts.

Change archival requires date-stamped directory paths to maintain an auditable archive structure under openspec/changes/archive. This structure preserves provenance by chronologically organizing completed changes for governance and auditing purposes.