7.1 Capstone Dogfood Transcript

Date: 2026-06-12, after the simplify pass (567bb03). Environment: a scratch dir with isolated XDG state (XDG_DATA_HOME/XDG_CONFIG_HOME under /tmp/openspec-7.1-dogfood/), three member folders (a planning root, a code repo, a plain notes folder), and fake code, cursor, claude, codex executables on a fully controlled PATH — each shim records its cwd and argv to a launch log and exits 0. The CLI under test is the built dist/cli/index.js via an openspec wrapper on the same PATH. Per the runbook's 7.1 amendment: the scripted compose→list→open walk for both launch styles with exact-argv verification, then a cold-start UX walk by a fresh headless agent.

Leg 1 — scripted walk (the user's seat, non-interactive)

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$ openspec workset create platform --member src/team-context --member src/web-app --member notes --tool claude

Saved workset 'platform' (3 members) to your machine.
Open it any time with: openspec workset open platform
exit=0

$ openspec workset list
platform  (opens in Claude Code)
  team-context  /private/tmp/openspec-7.1-dogfood/src/team-context
  web-app       /private/tmp/openspec-7.1-dogfood/src/web-app
  notes         /private/tmp/openspec-7.1-dogfood/notes
exit=0

$ openspec workset open platform --tool code
Opening 'platform' in VS Code (a window opens; this command returns).
exit=0

$ openspec workset open platform   # saved tool: claude (attach-dirs)
Handing this terminal to Claude Code for 'platform' (the session ends when you exit).
exit=0

$ openspec workset open platform --tool codex
Handing this terminal to codex for 'platform' (the session ends when you exit).
exit=0

The generated .code-workspace (regenerated on every open):

json

{
  "folders": [
    { "name": "team-context", "path": "/private/tmp/openspec-7.1-dogfood/src/team-context" },
    { "name": "web-app", "path": "/private/tmp/openspec-7.1-dogfood/src/web-app" },
    { "name": "notes", "path": "/private/tmp/openspec-7.1-dogfood/notes" }
  ]
}

The recorded launches — exact argv per tool, cwd at the primary member, no positional anywhere (the no-prompt rule), one attach pair per member with the primary included, codex's sandbox pre-args first:

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{"tool":"code","cwd":".../src/team-context","args":[".../data/openspec/worksets/platform.code-workspace"]}
{"tool":"claude","cwd":".../src/team-context","args":["--add-dir", ".../src/team-context", "--add-dir", ".../src/web-app", "--add-dir", ".../notes"]}
{"tool":"codex","cwd":".../src/team-context","args":["--sandbox", "workspace-write", "--add-dir", ".../src/team-context", "--add-dir", ".../src/web-app", "--add-dir", ".../notes"]}

The wrong turns:

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$ openspec workset open platform --tool zed   # unknown tool: the strand test
Error: Unknown tool 'zed'.
Fix: Known tools: code, cursor, claude, codex. Add new tools under "openers" in /tmp/openspec-7.1-dogfood/config/openspec/config.json.
Open manually:
  Workspace file: /tmp/openspec-7.1-dogfood/data/openspec/worksets/platform.code-workspace
  Members:
    team-context  /private/tmp/openspec-7.1-dogfood/src/team-context
    web-app       /private/tmp/openspec-7.1-dogfood/src/web-app
    notes         /private/tmp/openspec-7.1-dogfood/notes
exit=1

$ rm -rf notes && openspec workset open platform --tool code   # missing member
Skipped 'notes' (/private/tmp/openspec-7.1-dogfood/notes is not available).
Opening 'platform' in VS Code (a window opens; this command returns).
exit=0

$ openspec workset remove platform --yes
Removed workset 'platform'. Member folders were not touched.
exit=0

$ openspec workset list
No worksets saved. Create one with: openspec workset create
exit=0

Member folders verified byte-untouched after the whole walk (only the original fixture files present).

Leg 1b — the interactive wizard (real pty, driven by expect)

Answers: name typed, first folder accepted at the . default, Finish, first tool in the select (VS Code — all four fakes available), open-now declined.

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[1/3] Name the workset
? Workset name: platform-two
[2/3] Add member folders (the first one is the primary - sessions start there)
? Folder path: .
  Added 'openspec-7.1-dogfood' (/private/tmp/openspec-7.1-dogfood)
? Add another folder or finish: Finish
[3/3] Choose your tool
? Open with: VS Code

Saved workset 'platform-two' (1 member) to your machine.
? Open it now in VS Code? No
Open it any time with: openspec workset open platform-two
exit=0

Saved state confirmed (tool: code, basename-labeled member, absolute path). A separate pty run where stdin hit EOF at the name prompt exercised the cancellation path live: Cancelled., exit 130, nothing saved.

Leg 2 — cold start (fresh headless agent, no insider knowledge)

A fresh codex exec session (gpt-5.5, medium) in the scratch dir with fresh XDG state, given only this prompt: the user works across the three folders daily, was told "the openspec CLI can keep a named view of folders and open them together", knows no commands, and must start from openspec --help. The agent's own report of its path:

openspec --help
openspec workset --help
openspec workset create --help
openspec workset open --help
openspec workset list --help
openspec workset create daily-context --member ./src/team-context --member ./src/web-app --member ./notes --tool claude --json
openspec workset open daily-context --tool claude

It discovered the group from top-level help ("personal working views"), drilled into subcommand help, composed non-interactively with repeatable --member flags, and opened the view. Physical evidence: the launch log shows claude invoked with cwd at the primary and one --add-dir pair per member (no positional), and the fresh data dir holds exactly the spec-shaped worksets.yaml. An agent with zero insider knowledge reached an opened workset from --help alone.

Verdict

Every runbook capstone check passes: compose→list→open for both launch styles with exact argv verified (including the no-prompt rule), the generated workspace-file contents, the failure fallback, the missing-member skip, safe removal, member-folder isolation, the interactive wizard from a real pty, live cancellation, and the cold-start agent walk. No product findings surfaced — the only defect found during the run was in the dogfood's own first fake-tool shim (it routed argv through node -e, which ate --add-dir as a node option; rewritten with printf). Raw transcripts in /tmp/openspec-7.1-dogfood/ during the run; the durable record is this file.