[alasano]

I also like openspec.

I think these type of systems (gsd/superpowers) are way too opinionated.

It's not that they can't or don't work. I just think that the best way to truly stay on top of the crazy pace of changes is to not attach yourself to super opinionated workflows like these.

I'm building an orchestrator library on top of openspec for that reason.

[gbrindisi]

I am doing something similar: I use openspec to create context and a sequential task list that I feed to ralph loops, so that i’m involved for the planning and the verification step but completely hands off the wheel during code generation.

[alasano]

Exactly that. I created an "Open Ralph" loop initially within Claude directly with review gates per phase in the OpenSpec task list.

But it was always just a workaround to what I truly wanted (what I'm building now), a full external managed orchestrator loop. The agents aren't aware of the loop, they don't need to be.