Openspec Context Loading

This loads and searches your OpenSpec project structure to answer questions about what specs exist, what changes are active, and where requirements live. It's essentially a discovery layer over the spec directory tree, using find, grep, and basic shell commands to list capabilities, count requirements, search for keywords, and show change status. Useful when you're onboarding to a project or just lost track of what's been specified. The dashboard view is nice for getting the full picture: how many capabilities, how many active versus archived changes, recent activity. Think of it as running ls and grep intelligently so you don't have to remember the directory structure every time someone asks "do we have a spec for that?"

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Install

$ npx -y skills add forztf/open-skilled-sdd --skill openspec-context-loading --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Specification Context Loading

Discovers and loads project specifications, active changes, and requirements to provide context.

Quick Start

Context loading helps answer:

What specs exist in this project?
What changes are currently active?
What requirements are defined?
What capabilities does the system have?
Where is a specific feature specified?

Basic pattern: Search → Read → Summarize

Discovery Commands

List All Specifications

# Find all spec files
find spec/specs -name "spec.md" -type f

# Find all capability directories
find spec/specs -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d

# Show spec tree
tree spec/specs/  # if tree is installed
# or
ls -R spec/specs/

Output format:

spec/specs/
├── authentication/
│   └── spec.md
├── billing/
│   └── spec.md
└── notifications/
    └── spec.md

List Active Changes

# Show all active changes
find spec/changes -maxdepth 1 -type d -not -path "spec/changes" -not -path "*/archive" | sort

# Show with modification dates
find spec/changes -maxdepth 1 -type d -not -path "spec/changes" -not -path "*/archive" -exec ls -ld {} \;

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