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Add lifecycle hooks to the bug workflow - #4878
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The bundled bug extension's assess, fix, and test commands did not check `.specify/extensions.yml` for hooks, so a manifest registering `before_bug_assess` passed validation but the hook never fired. Add the standard pre- and post-execution hook blocks used by the core commands to all three bug commands, defining `before_bug_assess`/`after_bug_assess`, `before_bug_fix`/`after_bug_fix`, and `before_bug_test`/`after_bug_test`. Pre-hooks run after slug resolution and prerequisites so `BUG_SLUG` and `BUG_DIR` are available from the command context; the assess command ensures `BUG_DIR` exists before checking hooks. Post-hooks run after each report is written and before the completion report. The blocks keep the core semantics: mandatory hooks are invoked and awaited, optional hooks are presented, disabled and conditional hooks are handled as in core, an unreadable extensions.yml is reported rather than skipped silently, and behavior is unchanged when no hooks are registered. The bug extension still registers no hooks of its own. Document the six events in the extension API reference, the development and user guide event catalogs, the bug extension README, and the agentic bug-fix reference. Add text-contract tests that pin hook placement, context, core semantics, the assess ordering, and the documentation; they fail on main and pass with this change. Hook execution remains prompt-driven, so these tests prove the prompt contract, not that a given agent runs the hook. Closes github#4799 Assisted-by: Codex CLI (model: GPT-6.1 Sol, autonomous) Assisted-by: Claude Code (model: Claude Fable 5.1, autonomous) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-up to the bug-command lifecycle hook events, addressing review findings on the prompt text and the supporting test: - Dedent the "Report back" bullets in the three command templates now that the step is a top-level Completion Report section, and separate them from the lead-in with a blank line. - Reword the hook-context sentences in the templates, bug README, Extension API Reference, and agentic-bugfix docs: hooks are prompts run in the same session that reuse the already-stated BUG_SLUG, BUG_DIR and (for post-hooks) the written report from the conversation; no variables are injected. - Clarify the assess guardrail for unintelligible reports: still write assessment.md with verdict `invalid`, run the Mandatory Post-Execution Hooks, then stop after the Completion Report. - Rename the hook-registration test to test_bug_hook_event_names_are_accepted_and_registered, parametrize it over all six events, and document that manifest validation has no event-name allow-list, so this is an acceptance guard rather than regression evidence. The Pre-Execution Checks and Mandatory Post-Execution Hooks blocks otherwise remain verbatim copies of the core lifecycle contract, including their fenced-block style. Hook execution remains prompt-driven. Refs github#4799 Assisted-by: Codex CLI (model: GPT-6.1 Sol, autonomous) Assisted-by: Claude Code (model: Claude Fable 5.1, autonomous) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Keep the bundled catalog and manifest aligned so installed extensions receive the changes and the version guard passes. Assisted-by: Codex (model: GPT-6.1 Sol, autonomous)
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The bugfix bundle still pins bug extension 1.0.0, causing bundle installation to reject the new 1.0.1 manifest.
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What changed in this PR
Adds lifecycle hooks around the bundled bug workflow’s assess, fix, and test commands.
Changes:
- Adds six before/after hook events.
- Documents hook timing and configuration.
- Adds prompt-contract tests and bumps the extension to 1.0.1.
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tests/extensions/bug/test_bug_hooks.py |
Tests hook placement and semantics. |
extensions/EXTENSION-USER-GUIDE.md |
Lists bug hook events. |
extensions/EXTENSION-DEVELOPMENT-GUIDE.md |
Documents extension hook points. |
extensions/EXTENSION-API-REFERENCE.md |
Defines event timing and context. |
extensions/catalog.json |
Bumps the catalog version. |
extensions/bug/README.md |
Adds hook usage documentation. |
extensions/bug/extension.yml |
Bumps the manifest version. |
extensions/bug/commands/speckit.bug.test.md |
Adds verification hooks. |
extensions/bug/commands/speckit.bug.fix.md |
Adds remediation hooks. |
extensions/bug/commands/speckit.bug.assess.md |
Adds assessment hooks. |
docs/reference/agentic-bugfix.md |
Documents workflow hook support. |
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Please address Copilot feedback and fix test & lint errors |
Update the extension pin and bundle release metadata so the built-in bundle installs the shipped extension instead of rejecting the version mismatch. Assisted-by: Codex (model: GPT-6.1 Sol, autonomous)
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Hook contracts, documentation, version pins, and focused tests consistently satisfy the linked issue’s acceptance criteria.
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Updated the bugfix bundle’s extension pin and bundle version/catalog metadata in 6327c8a. All CI checks now pass. |
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The assessment command changes invalid-report behavior even when no hooks are registered, contrary to the stated acceptance criterion.
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Restore the existing invalid-report guardrail and make ingestion stop before report creation or post-hooks. Document that before-hooks can already have run and pin the prompt contract. Assisted-by: Codex (model: GPT-6.1 Sol, autonomous)
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Addressed in fd494a1. Unintelligible reports stop without creating an assessment or running after-hooks. Added regression coverage and checked sample workflows with and without hooks. Local checks passed; the latest CI runs are awaiting approval. |
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The implementation matches the requested lifecycle timing, preserves established hook semantics, and includes focused contract coverage.
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Description
Extensions could register hooks for the bug workflow. The assess, fix and test commands never check for them.
This PR adds both before and after hooks to all three of those commands, following the existing core command pattern. Before-hooks run only after prerequisites are resolved, and after-hooks run only after the relevant report is written up. The hook events, and their timing, are all documented.
Closes #4799
Testing
uv run specify --helpThe full suite ran in the candidate checkout's virtual env, with:
env -u FORCE_COLOR UV_NO_SYNC=1 uv run --no-sync python -m pytest tests -qLive agent tests
Claude Code 2.1.294, using Fable 5.1 at medium effort, ran assess → fix → test on a deliberately broken sample project, both with and without hooks.
All six mandatory hooks executed in the expected order. Logs verified that before-hooks ran before the work and after-hooks ran after report creation. Both workflows corrected the bug and passed the sample tests.
In one assessment run, the agent omitted the optional-hook offer and incorrectly claimed it had shown it. Mandatory hooks still executed correctly.
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AI disclosure:
Codex CLI (GPT-6.1 Sol, medium reasoning effort) and Claude Code (Fable 5.1, medium effort) were used for implementation, documentation, tests, automated review. Claude code also ran the sample project workflows, with Codex checking recorded results. Agents worked autonomously on tasks I requested. Reviewed code myself.