RIPDPI: Skill for Claude Code

RIPDPI policy: use only the local repository planning home. OpenSpec stores, global configuration changes, direct archive, and telemetry are out of scope; ./taskctl enforces the pinned tool and disables telemetry.

Revise a change's existing planning artifacts and keep them coherent. Never edit code.

Repository root: Work only in the current RIPDPI checkout. Do not select or register OpenSpec stores. Run every CLI lookup through ./taskctl openspec cli from the repository root.

Input: Optionally specify a change name. If omitted, check if it can be inferred from conversation context. If vague or ambiguous you MUST prompt for available changes.

$openspec-continue-change (Codex) or /openspec-continue-change (other agents) is an expanded-profile workflow and may not be installed. Before suggesting it anywhere below, verify that it is available. If it is unavailable, ./taskctl openspec cli status --change "<name>" --json shows the next artifact and ./taskctl openspec cli instructions "<artifact-id>" --change "<name>" --json explains how to create it.

Steps

1. Select the change

   If a name is provided, use it. Otherwise:

   • Infer from conversation context if the user mentioned a change
   • Auto-select if only one active change exists
   • If ambiguous, run ./taskctl openspec cli list --json to get available changes sorted by most recently modified, and ask the user to select one

   When prompting, present the top 3-4 most recently modified changes as options, showing:

   • Change name
   • Schema (from schema field if present, otherwise "spec-driven")
   • Status (e.g., "0/5 tasks", "complete", "no tasks")
   • How recently it was modified (from lastModified field)

   Mark the most recently modified change as "(Recommended)" since it's likely what the user wants to update.

   Always announce: "Using change: " and how to override (e.g., $openspec-update-change (Codex) or /openspec-update-change (other agents) <other>).

2. Get the change's artifacts

   ./taskctl openspec cli status --change "<name>" --json
   

   Parse the JSON to understand current state. The response includes:

   • schemaName: The workflow schema being used (e.g., "spec-driven")
   • artifacts: Array of artifacts with their status ("done", "skipped", "ready", "blocked")
   • isPlanningComplete: Boolean indicating if all planning artifacts are complete. Older CLI versions expose the same value as isComplete.
   • planningHome, changeRoot, artifactPaths, and actionContext: path and scope context. Use these instead of assuming repo-local paths.

   The artifact ids and paths come from the active schema - do NOT assume them, and do NOT branch on hardcoded artifact names. Custom schemas must work unchanged.

   The files to edit are artifactPaths.<id>.existingOutputPaths - the concrete files that exist on disk, already glob-expanded for glob artifacts (e.g. specs/**/*.md). Do NOT write to resolvedOutputPath: for a glob artifact it is still the glob pattern, not a real file.

3. Understand the request

   • If the user asked for a specific revision ("the design now uses X"), that is the starting edit.
   • If they only said "update" / "make this coherent", treat it as a coherence review: read the existing artifacts and check them against each other for contradictions, gaps, and duplication.

4. Read and reconcile

   • Read the artifact(s) the request touches and the change's other existing artifacts.
   • Apply the requested edit. Then check every other existing artifact against it - in ANY direction: an edit to a later artifact may require revising an earlier one, not only the other way around. Build order is a useful reading order, not a constraint on which artifacts may be revised.
   • Note everything that is now inconsistent, missing, or contradictory.
   • Revise only files that already exist (existingOutputPaths). Do NOT create artifacts that don't exist yet, and do NOT invent new files under a glob artifact - note them and point the user to $openspec-continue-change (Codex) or /openspec-continue-change (other agents) to create them.
   • If the change is already coherent, say so and make no edits.