Archive an OpenSpec Change

Archive a completed RIPDPI VPN deployment OpenSpec change through the fail-closed taskctl lifecycle. Requires the repository-pinned ./taskctl wrapper.

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name: openspec-archive-change description: Archive a completed RIPDPI VPN deployment OpenSpec change through the fail-closed taskctl lifecycle. allowed-tools: Bash(./taskctl:*) license: MIT compatibility: Requires the repository-pinned ./taskctl wrapper. metadata: author: openspec version: "1.0-ripdpi" generatedBy: "1.8.0"

Archive an OpenSpec change

Use this skill only when implementation is complete and the user asks to finalize a change.

  1. Resolve the active change with ./taskctl openspec cli list --json and its linked portfolio task with ./taskctl list --json.
  2. Run ./taskctl verify <task-id> --archive-ready. Stop on open mdtask steps, invalid OpenSpec artifacts, missing exact-SHA evidence, or any required/blocked evidence category.
  3. Require portfolio status review; never treat an agent checkbox as acceptance.
  4. Run ./taskctl openspec archive <change-name>. Never call the upstream archive command directly, pass --no-validate, move a change directory manually, or proceed after a warning.
  5. Run ./taskctl close prepare <task-id> --outcome done --evidence "<concise evidence summary>".
  6. Stop and ask for the terminal-state commit. close purge is a later, separately committed step.

For a dropped task, do not archive incomplete behavior deltas as completed. Prepare dropped with an explicit reason and preserve the active change until the owner decides whether to revise or remove it.

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