fix(tasks): count unrecognised checkbox markers as not done - #1773
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 10 included reviews per hour; 6 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe task parser now treats empty and unrecognised checkbox markers as incomplete. Archive, list, apply, numbering, and workflow guidance use the same rule. Tests cover parsing, progress reporting, archive warnings, and template parity. ChangesTask marker handling
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A checkbox marker the task parser did not recognise was dropped from progress entirely: it counted toward neither the numerator nor the denominator. A tasks.md whose remaining work was written `- [~] ...` therefore reported `✓ Complete` in `openspec list`/`status`, and `openspec archive` raised no incomplete-task warning for it. Marking open items with such a marker *shrank* the denominator instead of leaving them counted as not-done. Widen the marker to any single non-`]` character and keep `x`/`X` as the only done state, so an unrecognised marker reads as not-done - the fail-safe direction the pattern's own docblock argues for. OpenSpec adopts no new marker semantics; it just stops losing the line. Closes #1761 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Hardening pass on the #1761 fix. Parser: an empty `[]` and a padded `[ x]` were dropped exactly the way `[~]` was - checkbox-like lines counting toward neither the numerator nor the denominator, so archive stopped warning about them. The marker is now "at most one non-whitespace token", which covers all three. Multi-character brackets stay unmatched on purpose: widening to `[^\]]*` would match `- [Some doc](./doc.md)`, whose `]` is followed by `(` rather than a space, and turn every Markdown link list into phantom unfinished work. The docblock states that boundary and a test pins it. Guidance: archive, bulk-archive and verify told agents to count `- [ ]` vs `- [x]` by hand, which reproduced the same bug one layer up - an agent following it saw no incomplete tasks in a `[~]` file even with the CLI fixed. All six bodies (skill + command per workflow) now state the rule the parser implements; skills/ mirror and parity hashes regenerated. Coverage now spans every consumer of the shared counter: `openspec list`, archive's gate, the apply task list, validate's task-numbering check and the parser itself, including the reported 42-done/17-deferred ratio. Reverting only src/utils/task-progress.ts fails 7 of them. Verified empirically: the widened pattern newly matches 0 lines across all 1090 .md/.ts files in the repo, templates and docs included. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@src/core/templates/workflows/archive-change.ts`:
- Around line 81-83: Apply one checkbox-completion rule matching the shared
parser: treat [x], [X], and spacing variants such as [ x], [x ], and [ x ] as
complete, while treating all other markers as incomplete. Update both template
sections in src/core/templates/workflows/archive-change.ts (lines 81-83 and
265-267), both sections in src/core/templates/workflows/bulk-archive-change.ts
(lines 75-76 and 415-416), both sections in
src/core/templates/workflows/verify-change.ts (lines 65-66 and 241-242), and the
mirrored guidance in skills/openspec-bulk-archive-change/SKILL.md (lines 73-74)
and skills/openspec-verify-change/SKILL.md (lines 63-64).
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CodeRabbit review, verified and valid: the new guidance named only exact `[x]`/`[X]` as complete, while the parser also counts `[ x]`, `[x ]` and `[ x ]`. An agent hand-counting by that wording would have reported a padded tick as unfinished work and disagreed with `openspec list` - the same guidance/CLI split this PR set out to close. All six bodies now phrase it as the parser implements it: complete means the box holds only `x`/`X`, spacing inside the brackets ignored; every other marker, including an empty box, is incomplete. skills/ mirror and parity hashes regenerated. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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LGTM — ready for review. Parser fix plus the matching agent-side guidance, 11 new pinned tests, no new concepts.
Closes #1761
What was wrong
A checkbox marker the task parser did not recognise was dropped from progress entirely — it counted toward neither the numerator nor the denominator. So a
tasks.mdwhose remaining work was written with such a marker reported✓ Complete:openspec archiveraised no incomplete-task warning either — it shares the same counter. Worse, the count moved the wrong way: marking open items[~]shrank the denominator (22/48→✓ Complete) instead of leaving them counted as not-done. The reporter hit this on a real change with 42[x]· 17[~]· 0[ ], one of the seventeen a genuinely missing test.The cause,
src/utils/task-progress.ts:[X]-vs-[x]and indentation (#1485) were handled; anything else inside the brackets failed the match outright. Same silent failure mode as #1485 through a different door, and exactly what the pattern's own docblock warns about: a task this parser drops is a taskopenspec archivestops warning about.Two more shapes were lost the same way, and are fixed here too:
- [~] 1.2 Deferred- [] 1.3 Work(empty box)- [ x] 1.1 Done(padded tick)And the same bug existed one layer up, in prose: the
archive,bulk-archiveandverifyworkflows told agents to hand-count "- [ ](incomplete) vs- [x](complete)". An agent following that on a[~]file finds zero incomplete even with the CLI fixed.How it was fixed
The marker is now "at most one non-whitespace token".
x/Xremains the only done state, so every unrecognised marker reads as not done — the fail-safe direction, and no new concept: OpenSpec adopts no meaning for[~],[-]or[/], it just stops losing the line. This flows through every consumer of the shared counter at once:openspec list/statusprogress, the apply task list, archive's incomplete-task gate, andvalidate's task-numbering check (a deferred task with a duplicate ID is now flagged like any other).The six workflow bodies (skill + command surface for
archive,bulk-archive,verify) now state the rule the parser implements, so a hand-counted tally cannot disagree with the CLI.skills/mirror and parity hashes regenerated; that diff is wording plus hashes only.Where the width stops, and why. Multi-character brackets stay unmatched on purpose. Widening to
[^\]]*would match- [Some doc](./doc.md)— whose]is followed by(, not a space — and turn every Markdown link list into phantom unfinished work. A dropped- [WIP] ...is the accepted residue of keeping link bullets out. The docblock states this boundary and a test pins it.The one accepted cost: a bullet like
- [1] Some referenceinside a tracked tasks file now reads as one unfinished task. That is a loud, correctable false positive; the behavior it replaces was a silent loss of real work.Replication / proof
The guard fails first. Reverting only
src/utils/task-progress.tsand re-running fails 7 tests across all five consumers, with the archive assertion printing the reported symptom verbatim:New coverage, one per surface that was blind:
openspec list(the reported symptom)1/3 tasks, and no✓ Complete, for[x]/[~]/[]openspec archivegate3 incomplete task(s) foundon[~]/[-]/[][~]and[]rows as remaining, state staysreadyvalidatetask numbering[~]/[]lines42/59 tasks(was✓ Complete)Empirical false-positive sweep. The widened pattern newly matches 0 lines across all 1,090
.md/.tsfiles in the repo — every template, doc, and OpenSpec's ownopenspec/tree included.Historical parity intact. The test asserting every line the two pre-#1485 patterns matched still counts (including
[\t]and[ ]as empty boxes), plus a new sibling covering the six shapes the strict class used to drop. Code-fence cases and the #1485 indented-sub-task gate pass unchanged.Suite:
4427 passed. The 5 remaining local failures are environmental in my sandbox (version-checksubprocess timeouts, a temp-dirEACCESon skill writes,workset10s timeouts, and aconfig-profilefailure already failing onmain) and none touch task parsing — CI is the authority.Notes / nits
validate --archivede2e case: that path calls the samegetTaskProgressDetailForChangealready covered here, and its suite is an order-dependent shared fixture where adding a change rewrites existing assertions. Poor risk/reward, called out rather than skipped silently.[ ]for any not-done task, so a[~]row displays as[ ]there. Preserving the author's raw marker inParsedTaskwould be a larger, separate change and isn't needed for the fix.[~]semantics (deliberate deferral with a reason is their downstream CI convention). First-class deferred/human-only task states remain the open design question in Proposal: Support human-only tasks in tasks.md (AI skips work it can't do) #1362 — this PR deliberately does not pre-empt it.[x]/[X]as complete while the parser also accepts a padded[ x], so a hand-count could still disagree with the CLI. Verified and fixed in152db26: all six bodies now phrase the rule as the parser implements it.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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xorXare treated as completed, including when spacing appears inside the checkbox.Documentation