speckit.constitution

User Input

$ARGUMENTS

You MUST consider the user input before proceeding (if not empty).

Scope Guard

This command's own work is limited to updating the project constitution itself. Dependent templates and commands read the constitution at runtime and are not modified here.

• Classify every part of the user input as either constitution content or a separate, non-governance intent.
• If the input includes feature implementation, code generation, refactoring, building, or deployment requests, you MUST NOT execute them. Extract them as deferred intents instead.
• You MUST NOT create, modify, or delete application source files, feature routes, components, tests, deployment files, or other artifacts unrelated to the constitution workflow.
• If it is unclear whether an instruction is constitution content, ask for clarification before making changes.
• After completing the constitution update, include a Next Actions section for each deferred intent. List the original intent and suggest the appropriate follow-up Spec Kit command, such as __SPECKIT_COMMAND_SPECIFY__, without invoking it.
• If there are no non-governance intents, omit the Next Actions section.

Outline

You are updating the project constitution at .specify/memory/constitution.md. The active constitution scaffold is resolved at command time from constitution-template through the Spec Kit preset/template resolution stack.

Follow this execution flow:

1. Run {SCRIPT} from the repository root and parse TEMPLATE_CONTENT as the active template.
   • The shared resolver applies project overrides, composing preset layers, and extension layers before the core template fallback. It MUST succeed before continuing.
   • If it fails, stop and report the resolution error; do not continue with only one contributing template layer.
   • If .specify/memory/constitution.md exists, load it as the source of current project-specific values and amendments. Preserve information that is still applicable when applying the newly resolved scaffold.
   • If it does not exist, use the resolved template as the initial document.
   • Do not write back to any versioned template layer.
   • Identify every placeholder token of the form [ALL_CAPS_IDENTIFIER]. IMPORTANT: The user might require less or more principles than the ones used in the template. If a number is specified, respect that - follow the general template. You will update the doc accordingly.