feat(validate): report requirements two active changes both claim - #1698
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The validator and archive both refuse a MODIFIED block that would drop scenarios the live spec still has, but both compare one change against the current main spec. Two open changes converging on the same requirement are each individually consistent with a spec neither has landed in, so nothing reports the collision until the first one archives and the second starts failing - after the second author has already implemented against a base that moved. Add read-only detection that groups requirement claims across active changes and reports any requirement claimed by more than one. Delta files are enumerated with the same discoverSpecFiles() walk archive and specs-apply use, and names are matched with normalizeRequirementName, so this agrees with the paths that will actually apply the deltas. Advisory by design: overlap is often intentional, so this reports rather than judges, and never throws on an unreadable change. Core detection only; no CLI surface yet pending a call on placement. Refs Fission-AI#1669
Every check compares one change against the current main spec, so two changes converging on one requirement are each individually valid. The collision only surfaces when the first archives and the second starts failing, by which point its author has implemented against a base that moved (Fission-AI#1246, Fission-AI#1669, Fission-AI#1387). `validate --changes` / `--all` now names each contested requirement, the changes claiming it and the operation each applies, and whether the main spec holds it today. Rename deltas report at both ends: the old name collides with anyone editing it, the new name with anyone adding it. Deliberately no severity ranking. Deciding whether a given archive order aborts means reproducing the preconditions in specs-apply.ts, including the cases it treats as already-synced rather than as collisions; a second copy of those rules here would be free to disagree with the code doing the writing, and a wrong verdict would tell an author to rewrite a change that archives cleanly. That needs one applicability check archive and validate both call. Read-only and exit-code neutral. Delta files are enumerated with the same discoverSpecFiles() walk archive uses, and the scan is scoped to the resolved root's changesDir and specsDir so a --store run reads the store it selected.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds read-only overlap detection for requirements claimed by multiple active changes. ChangesCross-change overlap reporting
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Declare the fenced-block language.
Line 569 opens a fenced block without a language identifier. markdownlint reports MD040 for this block. Use text for this human-readable CLI output example.
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Use locale-independent ordering for overlap output.
findOverlaps() uses default-locale localeCompare() for claimant and overlap sorting. Non-ASCII identifiers can produce different JSON and CLI order across environments. Use the deterministic string comparator from discoverSpecFiles() and add non-ASCII ordering coverage.
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.
In `@src/core/change-overlap.ts` around lines 235 - 237, Update findOverlaps()
sorting for claimants and overlaps to use the deterministic locale-independent
string comparator already used by discoverSpecFiles(), replacing default-locale
localeCompare() calls while preserving the existing sort keys and tie-breaking.
Add coverage for non-ASCII identifiers to verify stable JSON and CLI ordering.
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openspec validate --changes(and--all) now reports requirements that more than one active change claims.Why
Every check we run compares a single change against the current main spec. Two changes converging on one requirement are therefore each individually valid —
validate --changesprints2 passed— and the collision only becomes visible when the first one archives and the second starts failing, by which point its author has already implemented against a base that moved.That failure is not new and nothing here changes it. #1246 is the canonical statement of it, and the scenario-drift guard closed the data-loss half — archive now aborts rather than silently dropping a scenario. What remains is timing: the abort lands on the second author, after their work shipped, over a requirement they never touched. This makes the collision visible before either change archives (#1669, #1387).
Each entry names the claiming changes, the operation each one applies, and whether the main spec holds that requirement today — two changes editing shared text is a different situation from two changes each proposing it. Rename deltas are reported at both ends: the old name collides with anyone editing it, the new name with anyone adding it.
Deliberately no severity ranking
The obvious next step is to rank these — "this pair cannot both archive", "this pair has to go in one order". I built that and then removed it, and the reasoning is the part of this PR I would most like reviewed.
Deciding whether a given archive order aborts means reproducing the preconditions in
specs-apply.ts— including the several cases it deliberately treats as already-synced rather than as collisions (a byte-identical re-ADD, a rename whose source is gone but whose target is present, a REMOVED whose target is already absent). A second copy of those rules here would be free to disagree with the code that does the writing. When I tested a ranked version against real archive runs, it did: it reportedconflictfor pairs that archive cleanly in either order, and in one case named the archive order that actually fails as the one to use.A wrong verdict here is worse than no verdict, because it tells an author to rewrite a change that would have archived fine. Ranking wants one applicability check that
archiveandvalidateboth call — related to #1112, where the same split already shows up asvalidatepassing a MODIFIED whose target header does not exist andarchiveaborting on it later. This PR stays on the side of that line that cannot be wrong.Scope and safety
discoverSpecFiles()walkarchiveandspecs-applyuse, so it sees exactly the files that will be applied — nested capability layouts included, nothing matched that archive would ignore.changesDirandspecsDir, so a--storerun reads the store it selected rather than a path rebuilt from the project root.--jsongains anoverlapsarray, present (possibly empty) whenever changes are in scope.docs/cli.mdanddocs/agent-contract.md§4.3 updated.Tests
26 unit + 7 end-to-end through the real CLI, covering grouping, rename both-ends, nested capability ids, store-scoped paths, the
--specsand zero-change and single-change shapes, three claimants on one requirement, and that an overlap never moves the exit code.Full suite passes (4003).
Summary by CodeRabbit
openspec validate --changesand--allnow identify requirements claimed by multiple active changes.overlapsarray with the same advisory details.Closes #1669