Assess is a separate business process from spec-driven development, so
it should not inject itself into the /speckit.specify lifecycle. The
hook fired on every /speckit.specify invocation (it had no condition),
nagging even when an assessment already existed and the user was
deliberately proceeding.
Unlike git's before_specify (a mechanical prerequisite: create a feature
branch) or agent-context's after_* hooks (reacting to spec output),
assess is an upstream, optional, human-judgment process. The coupling
that belongs here already runs forward and by choice: a `go` verdict
from /speckit.assess.decide hands off to /speckit.specify. The backward
hook was the redundant, intrusive direction.
- extension.yml: drop the hooks block (commands-only manifest)
- README.md: replace the Hooks section with a Handoff section
- test: replace the hook assertion with test_declares_no_hooks to lock
in the standalone-pipeline design
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Add a role-neutral, opt-in "Idea Assessment Pipeline" extension (id:
assess) covering the discovery work that happens BEFORE spec-driven
development. It provides a five-stage funnel: intake, research, define,
shape, decide, each writing one artifact under
.specify/assessments/<slug>/. A go verdict hands off to
/speckit.specify; killing an idea is a first-class success outcome.
Registration:
- extensions/catalog.json: bundled core opt-in entry (before bug)
- pyproject.toml: force-include maps into core_pack so it ships in the
installed wheel (verified via wheel build)
Also normalizes a Rich-wrapped substring assertion in test_workflows.py
so the suite passes at CI's 80-column non-TTY width.
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