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Status: LGTM.

What was wrong

npm install -g @fission-ai/openspec printed a warning that looks like a packaging fault:

npm warn allow-scripts   @fission-ai/openspec@1.9.0 (postinstall: node scripts/postinstall.js)
npm warn allow-scripts Run `npm approve-scripts --allow-scripts-pending` to review...

The suggested fix didn't work either — npm approve-scripts looks in the local project, not a global install, so it errored and left no way to clear the warning.

The install script's entire payload was one console.log suggesting openspec completion install. Users were paying a scary-looking supply-chain warning for a hint.

What it does

Prints the tip from the CLI instead, and deletes the install script.

  • maybeShowCompletionTip() in src/core/completion-tip.ts, called from the postAction hook so the tip trails the command's output rather than pushing errors and init's setup summary down the screen.
  • Records completionTipSeen in the global config, writing only that key, re-read immediately before the write and swapped in by rename.
  • Goes to stderr, never stdout.
  • Shown once, and only when someone can read it and it would help. Deferred — not consumed — on --json, openspec completion .../__complete, and any run where stderr isn't a terminal. Retired quietly when completions are already installed or the shell is one the installer would reject. Skipped entirely under CI and OPENSPEC_NO_COMPLETIONS=1.
  • Removes scripts/postinstall.js, scripts/test-postinstall.sh, and the postinstall/test:postinstall/files entries.

The published package declares no preinstall/install/postinstall script, so a registry install runs no OpenSpec code. (prepare is still declared; npm runs it only for git and local-directory installs.)

Review found real bugs — worth reading

Two adversarial passes ran over this. The headline:

Data loss. The first draft wrote a defaults-merged config, stamping profile: "core" into every user's config.json on first run. migrateIfNeeded treats a raw profile as "already migrated," so the one-time profile migration would never run again — and openspec update then deleted installed workflow skills.

Result on a pre-1.x config
First draft Removed: 2 skill directories (deselected workflows)
Fixed Migrated: custom profile with 8 workflows, all 8 kept

Fixing the write at the root also stopped an unparsable config being overwritten with defaults, and stopped openspec config list reporting untouched defaults as (explicit).

Also caught and fixed:

  • __complete burned the tip invisibly — generated completion scripts call the hidden resolver on every Tab press with stderr discarded.
  • Non-TTY runs burned it too. Agents drive this CLI constantly; those runs now defer.
  • It advertised completions to users who already had them, including right after completion install. Adds isInstalled() to the bash/fish/powershell installers, mirroring zsh's.
  • It sent unsupported-shell users to a command that exits 1. completion install refuses tcsh and undetectable shells, so the tip now retires quietly for them.
  • A concurrent-write race dropped a freshly-minted telemetry anonymousId: 15/40 → ~2/40, and what usually loses now is the tip's own flag (it simply shows once more). The residual is the non-atomic read-modify-write shape shared with telemetry's own writer.
  • CI detection used a CI === 'true' string check, so CI=yes/True/on printed into build logs. Now uses the repo's isCiEnvironment().
  • Unwritable config dir meant nagging forever; now records before printing, so it stays silent.
  • "ships zero lifecycle scripts" was an over-claimprepare survives in the packed manifest. SECURITY.md now scopes the claim to registry installs.

One fix outside the tip

change validate on a failing change called process.exit(), which tears down before postAction — the exact trap cli/index.ts:293 documents for update ("killing the telemetry flush mid-request"). A change that fails validation is a routine outcome, so this silently dropped the telemetry flush, and after the hook move it dropped the tip too. Removing it keeps exit code 1 (validate() already sets process.exitCode; top-level validate --all has always relied on that) and restores both. The existing e2e in validate-scenario-loss.test.ts pins the exit code.

Proof it works

Behavior verified against the built CLI under a real pty:

Scenario Tip shown Flag consumed
Interactive, fresh yes yes
Interactive, second run no
Completions already installed no yes (retired)
Unsupported shell (tcsh) no yes (retired)
Piped / non-TTY no no (deferred)
--json no no
completion generate / __complete no no
CI=yes no no
change validate on a failing change yes yes (exit still 1)

Mutation testing drove much of the test suite here. The first round found the tip's message text was entirely unasserted — corrupting it to "Tpi: ... instal ... shel" left every test green. The second round found four more surviving mutants: dropping isCompletionRun from the defer policy, reverting to the CI === 'true' check, failing closed on an undetected shell, and neutering the non-object config guard (which lets a JSON-array config be rewritten as {"0":...}). All are now killed by a test.

Full suite: 2936 passed, 2 failedconfig-profile, artifact-workflow, and an adapters collect error, all three reproduced identically on main at 2826b88. Notably the artifact-workflow failure was masked by the data-loss bug, whose default-stamping made delivery explicit; fixing the write surfaces the pre-existing failure again. Lint and tsc --noEmit clean.

Notes

  • isInstalled() checks the completion script file, not the profile-sourcing line bash and PowerShell also need. Deliberate: a user whose profile config half-failed has already met the installer, so re-advertising it wouldn't help. Documented on the interface.
  • The probe forks ps (via detectShell) on interactive runs that still owe the tip — normally exactly one run.
  • Hand-rolled installs at the path docs/cli.md suggests (~/.bash_completion.d/openspec) aren't detected, so those users see the tip once.
  • completionTipSeen is runtime-managed like telemetry.noticeSeen — accepted by the schema, never settable via openspec config set.
  • Users who haven't installed completions will see the tip once after upgrading.

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  • New Features

    • Shell-completion guidance now appears once in interactive terminals when completions are unavailable.
    • Added OPENSPEC_NO_COMPLETIONS=1 to suppress the guidance.
    • Completion detection distinguishes installed files from missing or invalid paths.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented guidance during non-interactive, JSON, CI, or completion-command runs.
    • Improved configuration-state persistence without overwriting unrelated settings.
    • Ensured telemetry shuts down reliably after CLI actions.
  • Documentation

    • Updated CLI and security documentation for completion behavior and package installation.
  • Chores

    • Removed the package’s post-install lifecycle script.

…tall script

The package's only install script existed to print one line suggesting
`openspec completion install`. Shipping it made every `npm install -g`
emit an npm allow-scripts warning, and `npm approve-scripts` then failed
with ENOMATCH because it looks in the local project, not a global install
— so the warning looked like a packaging fault with no way to clear it.

The tip now prints once on the CLI's first run, recorded via a
`completionTipSeen` flag in the existing global config alongside the
telemetry notice's `noticeSeen`. It writes to stderr so it can never
contaminate piped stdout, and is suppressed under CI,
OPENSPEC_NO_COMPLETIONS=1, `--json` runs, and `openspec completion`
itself. The published package now ships no lifecycle scripts at all.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The package no longer publishes or runs npm install lifecycle scripts. The CLI now displays a one-time shell-completion tip in eligible interactive runs, persists its state, and suppresses it for configured or non-interactive executions.

Changes

Completion tip lifecycle migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Remove install lifecycle scripts
.changeset/drop-postinstall-script.md, package.json, SECURITY.md, test/package-install-scripts.test.ts
Package metadata and documentation remove registry install scripts and scripts/postinstall.js. Tests verify that npm install lifecycle scripts are absent.
Add persisted completion-tip state
src/core/completion-tip.ts, src/core/config-schema.ts, src/core/global-config.ts, src/core/completions/*, test/core/completion-tip.test.ts, test/core/config-schema.test.ts, test/core/completions/installers/*
The asynchronous tip helper checks installed completions, preserves configuration data, persists completionTipSeen, and suppresses output for CI, opt-out, unsupported shells, or previously handled runs.
Invoke tip from CLI lifecycle
src/cli/index.ts, test/core/cli-is-json-run.test.ts, test/cli-e2e/completion-tip.test.ts
The CLI invokes the tip after command output and defers it for JSON, completion, and non-terminal executions. Validation now allows post-action hooks to run before process termination.
Document completion behavior
docs/cli.md, SECURITY.md
Documentation describes the one-time interactive tip, suppression environment variable, published package contents, and install behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to fc3b2

The CLI now records completion-tip state in shared global configuration; concurrent commands can occasionally overwrite unrelated telemetry state or show the tip again, and a couple of focused tests still need follow-up for shell selection and write-failure coverage. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness of these bounded risks.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant CompletionTip
  participant GlobalConfig
  participant ShellInstaller
  participant stderr
  CLI->>CompletionTip: invoke after command output
  CompletionTip->>GlobalConfig: read completionTipSeen
  CompletionTip->>ShellInstaller: check completion script
  ShellInstaller-->>CompletionTip: return installation state
  CompletionTip->>GlobalConfig: persist completionTipSeen
  CompletionTip->>stderr: display tip when execution is eligible
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- Around line 49-56: Move the options.silent early return in the completion-tip
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Comment thread src/core/completion-tip.ts
Adversarial review of the previous commit found it wrote a defaults-merged
config: `saveGlobalConfig({ ...getGlobalConfig(), completionTipSeen: true })`
stamped `profile: "core"` into every user's config.json on first run.
`migrateIfNeeded` treats a raw `profile` as "already migrated", so the
one-time profile migration would never run again — and `openspec update`
then deleted the user's installed workflow skills. Reproduced: 2 skill
directories removed where main reports "Migrated: custom profile with 8
workflows". The same write also overwrote an unparsable config with
defaults and made `openspec config list` report defaults as explicit.

The tip now reads and writes the raw config file and touches only its own
key, leaving an unreadable config strictly alone.

Other hardening from the same review:

- Suppress the tip for the hidden `__complete` resolver. Generated
  completion scripts call it on every Tab press with stderr discarded, so
  the one-shot tip was consumed where nobody could see it.
- Defer, never consume, when stderr is not a terminal. Agents and pipes
  drive this CLI far more often than humans do and would otherwise spend
  the tip into a log nobody opens.
- Skip the tip when completions are already installed. Previously the CLI
  advertised `completion install` to users who had run it — including on
  the very next command after installing. Adds `isInstalled()` to the
  bash/fish/powershell installers, mirroring the zsh one.
- Use the repo's `isCiEnvironment()` instead of a `CI === 'true'` string
  check, so `CI=yes`/`True`/`on` are as quiet as telemetry is.
- Move the call to `postAction` so the tip trails the command's output
  instead of pushing errors and `init`'s setup summary down the screen.
- Record before printing, so an unwritable config dir means silence rather
  than nagging on every run.

Tests: assert the message literal (mutation testing showed the message text
was the one unguarded behavior), the raw-write shape, corrupt-config
safety, the already-installed path, the defer policy, and an e2e case
pinning the non-TTY contract.

Docs: SECURITY.md no longer claims zero lifecycle scripts — `prepare` is
still declared and runs for git/directory installs; the registry-install
claim is the accurate one. `OPENSPEC_NO_COMPLETIONS` is now documented.

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In `@test/core/completion-tip.test.ts`:
- Around line 132-152: Update both Fish completion-tip tests around
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Comment on lines +132 to +152
it('retires the tip quietly when completions are already installed', async () => {
// Without this the CLI tells people to install completions they already
// have — including on the very next command after `completion install`,
// whose own run only defers the tip.
process.env.SHELL = '/bin/fish';
const installed = path.join(tempDir, '.config', 'fish', 'completions', 'openspec.fish');
fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(installed), { recursive: true });
fs.writeFileSync(installed, '# completions');

await maybeShowCompletionTip();

expect(printedTip()).toBe(false);
expect(JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(getGlobalConfigPath(), 'utf-8')).completionTipSeen).toBe(true);
});

it('still shows the tip when that shell has no completions installed', async () => {
process.env.SHELL = '/bin/fish';

await maybeShowCompletionTip();

expect(printedTip()).toBe(true);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Control shell detection in these Fish tests.

Setting process.env.SHELL does not guarantee Fish selection. detectShell() checks the parent shell first. If the runner has Bash or Zsh as its parent shell, Line 141 can print the tip and Line 152 can pass without testing the Fish path.

Mock detectShell() to return { shell: 'fish', detected: 'fish' } in both tests. This makes the installed and absent Fish completion cases deterministic.

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[warning] 138-138: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
Context: fs.writeFileSync(installed, '# completions')
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').

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[warning] 143-143: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
Context: fs.readFileSync(getGlobalConfigPath(), 'utf-8')
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').

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In `@test/core/completion-tip.test.ts` around lines 132 - 152, Update both Fish
completion-tip tests around maybeShowCompletionTip to mock detectShell so it
deterministically returns the Fish shell result, rather than relying on
process.env.SHELL. Keep the existing installed-completion and missing-completion
assertions unchanged.

fs.chmodSync(dir, 0o555) does not stop a write on Windows, so this test's
unwritable condition never existed there: markTipSeen succeeded, the tip
printed, and windows-pwsh was the only failing job.

Occupy the config directory's path with a file instead. mkdirSync with
recursive: true tolerates an existing directory but throws on an existing
file on every platform, so the persist fails where a real permission error
would - before anything is printed. Also asserts the path is still a file,
so a partial write through the failure would be caught.

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- Around line 126-131: Adjust the test around maybeShowCompletionTip so
readRawConfig succeeds before exercising markTipSeen: create a readable raw
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Comment on lines +126 to +131
const configDir = path.dirname(getGlobalConfigPath());
fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(configDir), { recursive: true });
fs.writeFileSync(configDir, 'not a directory');

await maybeShowCompletionTip();
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Make this test reach the persistence failure.

maybeShowCompletionTip() calls readRawConfig() before markTipSeen(). When configDir is a file, getGlobalConfigPath() points below that file, so the read fails before markTipSeen() runs. The test covers a configuration-read failure, not the persistence-write failure described by the test.

Create a readable raw configuration, then make only the persistence write fail, or test the persistence helper with a mocked write failure. Keep the current path-occupancy case as a separate read-failure test.

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Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').

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In `@test/core/completion-tip.test.ts` around lines 126 - 131, Adjust the test
around maybeShowCompletionTip so readRawConfig succeeds before exercising
markTipSeen: create a readable raw configuration, then isolate the failure to
the persistence write, or mock the persistence helper’s write operation to fail.
Keep the existing configDir file/path-occupancy setup as a separate test
covering read failure.

clay-good and others added 2 commits August 19, 2026 13:06
… end

Second adversarial pass over the tip, covering the hardening commit itself.

- An undetected or unsupported shell now retires the tip quietly. It used
  to print, but `openspec completion install` exits 1 for exactly those
  users ("Shell 'tcsh' is not supported yet" / "Could not auto-detect
  shell"), so the one message they would ever get about completions sent
  them to a command that fails.
- `markTipSeen` re-reads the config immediately before writing and swaps
  the file in by rename. Deciding whether to show the tip costs a `ps`
  spawn plus a stat, and a sibling process writing config in that window
  got clobbered — on a first run that is exactly when telemetry mints
  `anonymousId`. Concurrent-process loss drops from 15/40 to ~2/40, and
  what now usually loses is the tip's own flag (it simply shows once
  more) rather than telemetry identity. The residual is the non-atomic
  read-modify-write shape shared with telemetry's own writer.
- `isInstalled()` uses stat().isFile(), so a directory at the install
  path no longer counts as an installed completion script.
- Documented what `isInstalled()` actually promises: the script file, not
  the profile sourcing line that bash and PowerShell also need. Callers
  deciding whether to *advertise* completions want the loose reading — a
  user whose profile config failed has already met the installer.
- Corrected a comment claiming the probe costs "one stat": detectShell()
  forks `ps` to read the parent process on every non-Windows run.

Tests: mutation testing found four surviving mutants — dropping
isCompletionRun from the defer policy, reverting isCiEnvironment to a
CI==='true' string check, failing closed on an undetected shell, and
neutering the non-object config guard (which lets a JSON array config be
rewritten as {"0":...}). All four now fail a test. Adds direct coverage
for the three new isInstalled() implementations, which had none.

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`change validate` on a failing change called process.exit(exitCode). That
tears down before commander's postAction hook, which is the same trap the
`update` command documents 165 lines earlier: "exiting here would skip
commander's postAction hook, killing the telemetry flush mid-request".

A change that fails validation is a routine outcome, not an error, so this
silently dropped the telemetry flush and — since the completions tip moved
to postAction — the first-run tip for anyone whose first command was a
failing validate. Verified under a pty: before, the tip never printed and
completionTipSeen was never recorded; after, both happen and the exit code
is still 1 (validate() already sets process.exitCode, which Node honours at
natural exit — top-level `validate --all` has always relied on exactly
that). The existing e2e in validate-scenario-loss.test.ts pins the exit
code.

Also wraps the postAction tip in try/finally so the telemetry flush runs
even if the hint throws: program.parse() is synchronous, so a rejection
there has no catch above it.

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In `@src/core/completion-tip.ts`:
- Around line 103-123: Update markTipSeen() to use the shared configuration
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Comment on lines +103 to +123
/**
* Record the flag, re-reading the config first and replacing the file by rename.
*
* Deciding whether to show the tip costs a `ps` spawn and a stat, and a sibling
* `openspec` process can write the same file in that window — on a first run
* that is exactly when telemetry mints `anonymousId`. Re-reading here keeps the
* write down to this one key, and the rename keeps a reader from ever seeing a
* half-written config.
*/
function markTipSeen(): void {
const configPath = getGlobalConfigPath();
const current = readRawConfig() ?? {};
const tempPath = `${configPath}.${process.pid}.tmp`;

fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(configPath), { recursive: true });
fs.writeFileSync(
tempPath,
JSON.stringify({ ...current, completionTipSeen: true }, null, 2) + '\n',
'utf-8'
);
fs.renameSync(tempPath, configPath);

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Prevent concurrent global-config updates from losing fields.

markTipSeen() does not serialize the read-modify-write operation. Two processes can read the same config, write different fields, and rename their temporary files in sequence. The later rename can remove fields written by the earlier process, such as anonymousId.

Use a shared configuration update primitive with an inter-process lock. Re-read the config after acquiring the lock. Add a concurrent-writer regression test.

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In `@src/core/completion-tip.ts` around lines 103 - 123, Update markTipSeen() to
use the shared configuration update primitive with its inter-process lock
instead of performing an unprotected read-modify-write and rename; ensure the
config is re-read only after the lock is acquired, preserves existing fields,
and add a regression test covering concurrent writers retaining fields such as
anonymousId.

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