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  [versioning policy](https://github.com/DescentVTT/spec-core/blob/main/docs/adr/0009-versions-before-1-0.md)
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+ ## 0.20.0
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+ A negation an aside sets apart from its phrase cancels it, and a
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+ pointer such as `see` governs the reference after it, so neither is
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+ read as the relation it denies or passes over. On Linux a `\` in an
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+ export path `diff` is given is a separator, and a run does not start in
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+ a directory whose name holds one. A relative `cwd` given to the library
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+ ### Changed
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+ - **A negation an aside sets apart from the phrase cancels it.**
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+ `Not, as it happens, blocked by [ADR-0002](0002.md)` and
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+ `Never, ever, blocked by` were `blocked-by`, the relation each denies:
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+ the comma after the negation ended its clause. An aside closed by a comma
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+ of its own leaves the clause open now, and each is a citation, and no
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+ phrase before such a negation governs the reference either, so
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+ `Not, as decided in [ADR-0003](0003.md), blocked by [ADR-0002](0002.md)`
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+ reads no premise from the second. The miss it trades is a negation that
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+ ends a clause of its own before an aside, `If not, then, blocked by`,
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+ which is a citation too
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+ ([ADR-0006](https://github.com/DescentVTT/spec-graph/blob/main/docs/adr/0006-false-positives-cost-more.md)).
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+ A `ghost-handover`, `stale-premise` or `live-supersession` such a
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+ sentence denies is no longer reported, and an open question it hands to
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+ a live document is an `orphaned-obligation`, so a check can pass that
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+ failed, and fail that passed. Upgrading: run `check`; where a hand-off
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+ is written `Owner: nobody, for now, deferred to`, write it without the
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+ aside.
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+ - **A pointer governs the reference after it.**
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+ `Per tick, see [ADR-0002](0002.md)` read the cited document as a
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+ premise, and `Blocked by the cache, see [ADR-0002](0002.md)` as what
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+ blocks: `see` between a phrase
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+ and the reference was passed over. It governs the reference as a
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+ citation now, as it does with no phrase before it; `the must-see list`
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+ and `seen in` point at nothing
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+ ([ADR-0006](https://github.com/DescentVTT/spec-graph/blob/main/docs/adr/0006-false-positives-cost-more.md)).
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+ A finding read from such a phrase is no longer reported. Upgrading: run
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+ `check`; where the phrase does name the reference, name it before the
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+ pointer, `Blocked by [ADR-0002](0002.md), see its table`.
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+ - **A `\` in an export path is a separator.** `diff` read its two paths as
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+ typed, so on Linux `diff 'sub\base.json' 'sub\head.json'` compared files
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+ of those names, or found none, and `..\sub\base.json` typed one directory
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+ down found none, where a baseline typed either way is `sub/base.json`.
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+ Each path is read as a root and a baseline are now, from where it was
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+ typed. Windows reads as before
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+ ([ADR-0010](https://github.com/DescentVTT/spec-graph/blob/main/docs/adr/0010-configuration-belongs-to-the-repository.md)).
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+ Upgrading: on Linux, rename an export whose file name holds a `\`; a
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+ diff that read it reads the path the `\` spells now.
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+ - **A run does not start in a directory whose name holds a `\`.** Where the
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+ host separates names with `/`, as Linux does, `check`, `query`, `graph`
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+ and `rules` in `/work/a\b` read `/work/a/b`, the path the `\` spells: its
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+ documents, its configuration and its rules, so a check could pass over
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+ the tree it was typed in, and a `--record-baseline` was written there.
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+ Each stops now with exit `2` and one line, before it reads or writes
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+ anything; `diff`, `--help` and `--version` run there as before
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+ ([ADR-0010](https://github.com/DescentVTT/spec-graph/blob/main/docs/adr/0010-configuration-belongs-to-the-repository.md)).
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+ Upgrading: run from a path whose names hold no `\`, or give `--root` one,
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+ such as a link to the directory.
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+ - **A relative `cwd` is read once.** The library's `main({ cwd: 'docs' })`
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+ with no `--root` started the run in `docs/docs`, the directory joined to
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+ itself: it checked `docs/docs/*.md` for `*.md` and recorded a baseline
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+ there. It starts in `docs` now, and two values of a baseline are
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+ compared from there. The `spec-graph` command gives an absolute
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+ directory and is as it was
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+ ([ADR-0010](https://github.com/DescentVTT/spec-graph/blob/main/docs/adr/0010-configuration-belongs-to-the-repository.md)).
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+ Upgrading: nothing to do; a caller that gave a relative `cwd` gets the
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+ ## 0.19.0
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+ A comma ends the clause a negation before a phrase is in, so
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+ `if not, blocked by [ADR-0002](0002.md)` is the relation it states. A
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+ library caller's own directory is where a relative `--root` is read
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+ from, a drive letter names its volume in either case on Windows, and a
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+ `\` in a root or a baseline is a separator wherever the run starts.
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+ ### Changed
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+ - **A comma ends the clause a negation before a phrase is in.**
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+ `if not, blocked by [ADR-0002](0002.md)` and
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+ `both or neither, because [ADR-0002](0002.md) says so` were citations:
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+ the comma was blanked, and the negation then stood against the phrase.
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+ Each is the relation it states now, `blocked-by` and `assumes`, and so
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+ are `No, blocked by`, `Not yet, deferred to` and
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+ `Like it or not, superseded by`. A comma still counts toward no phrase's
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+ 40 characters, and a negation between the phrase and the reference
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+ cancels it as before, whatever commas stand there. A `ghost-handover`,
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+ `stale-premise` or supersession such a sentence states is reported, and
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+ an open question it hands to a live document is no longer an
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+ `orphaned-obligation`, so a check that passed can fail
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+ ([ADR-0006](https://github.com/DescentVTT/spec-graph/blob/main/docs/adr/0006-false-positives-cost-more.md)).
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+ Upgrading: run `check`; a finding it now reports from such a sentence is
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+ one the sentence states. A negation set off by commas from the phrase it
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+ denies, `Never, ever, blocked by`, is read as the relation too: write it
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+ without the commas.
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+ - **A relative `--root` is read from the directory `main` is given.** The
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+ library's `main({ argv, cwd })` compared two values of `--root` from
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+ `cwd`, and read the one it kept from the process's own directory: `check
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+ --root docs` checked another tree's `docs`, a `--record-baseline` beside
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+ it was written there, and where that directory had no `docs` the root was
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+ not there. The root, its configuration and its baselines are read from
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+ `cwd` now, and a relative `cwd` is read from the process's directory, so
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+ the walk for a configuration from it goes up to the repository as it does
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+ from that directory, where it stopped at the top of the relative path.
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+ The `spec-graph` command is as it was
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+ ([ADR-0010](https://github.com/DescentVTT/spec-graph/blob/main/docs/adr/0010-configuration-belongs-to-the-repository.md)).
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+ Upgrading: a caller that passed a `cwd` other than the directory it meant
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+ `--root` from passes that directory, or an absolute `--root`.
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+ - **On Windows a drive letter names its volume in either case.** `--root
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+ C:\x` beside `--root c:\x` was refused, exit `2`, as two directories, and
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+ so were two baselines written so, and `C:docs` beside `c:docs`. Each is
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+ one value now, taken once; past the letter two names are compared as
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+ before, so `C:\x` beside `C:\X` is still refused (spec-core's ADR-0005,
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+ 2026-10-19). Upgrading: nothing to do; a line refused for this runs now.
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+ - **A `\` in a baseline or a root is a separator wherever the run starts.**
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+ that name, and `'..\sub\held.json'` typed one directory down read
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+ `sub/held.json`; a `"baseline"` in the configuration was read as the
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+ first, and two baselines that differed only so were refused as two. Each
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+ reads `sub/held.json` now, as an absolute path and a pattern did already,
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+ and a `--root` with a `\` is asked of the disk as it is walked. Windows
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+ ([ADR-0018](https://github.com/DescentVTT/spec-graph/blob/main/docs/adr/0018-the-configuration-file-is-the-root.md)).
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  ## 0.18.0
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- export declare const HELP = "spec-graph - turn Markdown specifications into a verifiable graph\n\nUSAGE\n spec-graph [check] [patterns...] [options]\n spec-graph query <selector|project:rule> [patterns...] [options]\n spec-graph graph [patterns...] [--graph-format dot|mermaid|json]\n spec-graph rules [rule-id] [--explain]\n spec-graph diff <before.json> <after.json> [--format human|json|markdown]\n\nCOMMANDS\n check Validate the specification graph. The default.\n query Run a selector - or a registered project rule, by its id - and\n print the matching paths.\n graph Export the graph for Graphviz, Mermaid, or another tool.\n rules List the diagnostics that will run, built in and project. Name one\n to see only that one; --explain adds its selector and the ADR that\n decided it.\n diff Compare two graph exports: documents added, removed, moved or\n accepted; relations added or removed; and obligations resolved or\n reopened where they can be told apart. Make both exports with the\n same spec-graph. Exits 0 whether anything changed or not.\n\nOPTIONS\n --root <dir> Directory the patterns resolve against. Without it,\n .spec-graph.json is looked for in the working\n directory and then upward as far as the repository,\n and the directory holding it becomes the root - so a\n run from a subdirectory reports what a run from the\n top reports. Paths typed on the command line stay\n relative to where they were typed. It has to be a\n directory that is there.\n --ignore <glob> Skip paths. Repeatable.\n --ignore-ref <glob> Do not report these reference targets when they fail\n to resolve, for repositories where [[...]] tags a\n concept rather than naming a file. Repeatable.\n Suppresses findings only, never edges.\n --family <name> Families a bare identifier in prose may name. When\n given, everything else stays prose. Repeatable: one\n name each time, the prefix its identifiers are\n written with, ADR for ADR-0007. A document here has\n to belong to one of them, or the check stops: a list\n that names none allows nothing. It stops too where\n a name has no document and the list leaves out a\n family the documents do belong to, as RFCS for RFC\n does: one is most likely meant for the other.\n --ignore-family <name> Families that are never citations - RFC when the repo\n cites RFC 2119 and keeps its own RFCs. Repeatable,\n one name each time.\n --history <glob> Files that log what was decided rather than deciding\n it - journals, changelogs, minutes. Their links are\n still checked; their obligations are not. Repeatable.\n A pattern whose files an ignore leaves out is\n refused: no journal it names would be read.\n --baseline <file> Accept the findings recorded in this file and report\n only what is new since. The file has to be there: a\n path that reads nothing accepts nothing and says so\n nowhere. A \"baseline\" in the configuration may name a\n file not recorded yet; a path typed here may not.\n --record-baseline <f> Write today's findings to this file as accepted debt,\n and exit 0 without judging them. With --format json\n the recording is a JSON document.\n --ratchet Also fail when a baseline entry no longer occurs, so\n a paid-off exemption cannot outlive the defect.\n --no-config Ignore .spec-graph.json and the package.json key.\n --format <fmt> human, json, sarif, github, gitlab or markdown. json\n is for check, query or diff. sarif is the interchange\n format GitHub code scanning and editors already read,\n github the workflow commands a GitHub Actions log\n turns into annotations, and gitlab the Code Quality\n report a GitLab merge request reads, all three for\n check; markdown is a table for a pull-request comment\n or $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY, for check or diff (default:\n human)\n --graph-format <fmt> dot, mermaid or json (default: dot)\n --documents-only Leave items out of the exported graph\n --rule <id>=<severity> Override one rule: error, warn, info or off. A project\n rule is named in full: project:no-draft-dependency.\n Repeatable.\n --max <n> Show at most n findings (0 = no limit)\n --max-warnings <n> Fail when warnings exceed n (default: no limit)\n --strict Raise every warning to an error. An explicit --rule\n still wins, so --strict --rule x=warn exempts x.\n --color / --no-color Force colour on or off, whatever NO_COLOR, FORCE_COLOR\n and the terminal say. The two together are refused\n --ascii / --no-ascii ASCII glyphs or Unicode ones. SPEC_GRAPH_ASCII asks\n for ASCII, unless it is empty, 0 or false. Either\n option wins over it, and over what the terminal is\n taken for. The two together are refused\n --verbose Include parse problems, per-file detail, and every\n reference --ignore-ref or --ignore-family silenced\n --explain With rules: add each rule's selector and the ADR\n that decided it\n -h, --help Show this help\n -v, --version Show the version\n\n An option belongs to the commands that read it, and any other command\n refuses it by name:\n\n --root, --verbose check, query, graph, rules\n --ignore, --history check, query, graph\n --format check, query, diff\n --graph-format, --documents-only graph\n --explain rules\n every other option check\n\n --no-config, --no-color and --ascii are taken by every command: each is\n true already of a command with nothing to read it for. --color and\n --no-ascii are not: each would say that a command drew what only a check\n draws.\n\n An option beside its own opposite is refused, whichever comes first:\n --color beside --no-color, and --ascii beside --no-ascii. The later would\n decide and the earlier go unread. Either alone wins over the environment,\n and the same option twice is that option once.\n\n An option that takes one value is refused given two, as in --root a\n --root b: the later would be read and the earlier go unread. That is each\n option above with a value that is not marked Repeatable, and one rule\n given two severities by --rule. Two values are compared as each is read,\n so one value twice is that value once however it is spelled: --root .\n beside --root ./ names one directory.\n\n A baseline to read is refused beside one to record, --baseline beside\n --record-baseline: a recording writes every finding and opens no\n baseline. So is each option a recording does not read, since it judges,\n shows and colours no finding: --ratchet, --strict, --max, --max-warnings,\n --color, --no-ascii, and --format sarif, github or gitlab. So is one\n family given to both --family and --ignore-family, whose citations are\n passed over whatever asked for them. One family asked for beside another\n ignored is taken.\n\n A value that begins with -- reads as an option, so the option before it is\n refused as missing its value. A name that does begin so is written ./--name\n for a file, [-]-name in a pattern and \\--name for a reference target.\n\n A line that is wrong is refused with --help or --version on it too, an\n option a recording does not read among them, and --help beside --version\n is refused: one of the two answers would go unread. What a command still\n needs, a selector or two exports, is what --help is for: query --help and\n diff --help print it. The help reads no disk, so what only the run finds,\n a --root that is not there or a --history an ignore leaves out, is\n answered by it.\n\nSELECTORS\n A selector is a path through the graph.\n\n item[openness=open] -delegates-to-> document[phase=retired]\n document[phase=active] -assumes-> document[phase=retired]\n document =supersedes=> document\n *[path^=docs/adr] -contains-> item[state=accepted-debt]\n\n Node types: document, item, * (any)\n Attributes: id, kind, title, path, file, line, phase, status, receptivity,\n alias, document, state (or disposition), openness, section,\n text, body, evidence, conflicted, fm.<front-matter-key>\n Operators: = != ^= $= *= ~= and [attr] for \"is present\"\n ~= is a regular expression, matched by an automaton that cannot\n backtrack: linear in the subject, whatever the pattern. It reads\n the usual syntax minus backreferences and lookaround, which are\n not regular - both are refused when the selector is read, with\n the character pointed at\n Relations: -kind-> <-kind- =kind=> <=kind= (= forms are transitive)\n\nEXIT CODES\n 0 clean\n 1 findings at error severity (or over --max-warnings)\n 2 the tool could not run\n\n An input that is set and names nothing is a 2, named on stderr, and never\n read as if it had not been given: an empty value, a family name no family\n has, a list of families no document here belongs to, a --root that is no\n directory, a second word after rules, an option of another command. So\n are two things of which one would go unread: an option beside its own\n opposite, an option that takes one value given two, --baseline beside\n --record-baseline, an option a recording does not read, a family both\n asked for and ignored, a --history whose files an ignore leaves out,\n --help beside --version.\n\nCONFIGURATION\n Anything repeated on every run belongs in the repository rather than in the\n command. spec-graph reads the first of these that exists:\n\n .spec-graph.json, spec-graph.config.json, or a \"spec-graph\" key in\n package.json\n\n { \"patterns\": [\"docs/**/*.md\"],\n \"ignoreReferences\": [\"trap *\"],\n \"ignoreFamilies\": [\"RFC\"],\n \"historyPatterns\": [\"**/JOURNAL_*.md\", \"archive/**\"],\n \"baseline\": \".spec-graph-baseline.json\",\n \"severities\": { \"self-reference\": \"off\" },\n \"strict\": true,\n \"maxRelated\": 3 }\n\n A flag always wins over the file, and list flags add to it rather than\n replacing it: --family RFC reads the citations \"ignoreFamilies\" passes\n over. maxRelated has no flag: it caps how many related locations one\n finding lists, 8 unless set, and 0 lists none.\n\n A problem in that file stops the run with exit 2, named on stderr: invalid\n JSON, an unknown key, a rule that does not compile, one family in both\n \"families\" and \"ignoreFamilies\", a file that is there and cannot be read. A configuration that did not load checks a different\n repository than the one configured, and would report that one as consistent.\n --no-config runs on defaults instead.\n\nPROJECT RULES\n A convention spec-graph never anticipated is a selector plus a sentence, and\n belongs in the same file. Every rule declared here runs beside the built-ins\n and is reported, baselined, escalated by --strict and silenced by --rule in\n exactly the same way.\n\n { \"rules\": {\n \"no-draft-dependency\": {\n \"query\": \"document[phase=active] -depends-on-> document[phase=draft]\",\n \"message\": \"{0} depends on {1}, which is still a draft\",\n \"hint\": \"wait for {1} to be accepted, or drop it from {0.path}\",\n \"severity\": \"error\" } } }\n\n query One selector, or a list of them read as a union.\n message The headline. {0} is the first node on the path, {1} the next;\n {1.phase} and {0.fm.owner} read any selector attribute.\n hint The next action. Optional, and templated the same way.\n severity error, warn, info or off. Defaults to warn - a rule a team has\n just written has not yet earned the right to fail their build.\n\n The id is the name with project: in front, which is why it can never collide\n with a built-in. A selector that does not parse, or a {2} the query can never\n reach, is reported when the file is read rather than found missing later.\n\n To see what one matches without copying its selector out of the file:\n\n spec-graph query project:no-draft-dependency --verbose\n\nADOPTING THIS ON AN OLD REPOSITORY\n Record what is already wrong, then report only what happens next:\n\n spec-graph check --record-baseline .spec-graph-baseline.json\n git add .spec-graph-baseline.json\n\n The file is keyed by specification and citation, not by line number, so it\n survives edits, moves and renames. Findings that stop occurring are reported\n so the file can be tightened; nothing new gets in.\n\nEXAMPLES\n spec-graph \"docs/**/*.md\"\n spec-graph check --rule self-reference=off --format json\n spec-graph query 'item[openness=open] -delegates-to-> document[phase=retired]'\n spec-graph check --ignore-ref \"trap *\" # [[trap 55]] tags a concept, not a file\n spec-graph graph --documents-only --graph-format mermaid > graph.mmd\n spec-graph check --history \"**/JOURNAL_*.md\" # a log is not a specification\n spec-graph check --baseline .spec-graph-baseline.json\n spec-graph rules --explain # including this repository's own\n spec-graph rules ghost-handover --explain # and why it exists\n spec-graph check --rule project:no-draft-dependency=off\n spec-graph query project:no-draft-dependency # what does that rule match?\n spec-graph check --format markdown >> \"$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY\"\n spec-graph check --format github # annotations from an Actions log\n spec-graph check --format gitlab > gl-code-quality-report.json\n spec-graph diff base.json head.json --format markdown >> \"$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY\"\n";
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Make both exports with the\n same spec-graph. Exits 0 whether anything changed or not.\n\nOPTIONS\n --root <dir> Directory the patterns resolve against. Without it,\n .spec-graph.json is looked for in the working\n directory and then upward as far as the repository,\n and the directory holding it becomes the root - so a\n run from a subdirectory reports what a run from the\n top reports. Paths typed on the command line stay\n relative to where they were typed. It has to be a\n directory that is there.\n --ignore <glob> Skip paths. Repeatable.\n --ignore-ref <glob> Do not report these reference targets when they fail\n to resolve, for repositories where [[...]] tags a\n concept rather than naming a file. Repeatable.\n Suppresses findings only, never edges.\n --family <name> Families a bare identifier in prose may name. When\n given, everything else stays prose. Repeatable: one\n name each time, the prefix its identifiers are\n written with, ADR for ADR-0007. A document here has\n to belong to one of them, or the check stops: a list\n that names none allows nothing. It stops too where\n a name has no document and the list leaves out a\n family the documents do belong to, as RFCS for RFC\n does: one is most likely meant for the other.\n --ignore-family <name> Families that are never citations - RFC when the repo\n cites RFC 2119 and keeps its own RFCs. Repeatable,\n one name each time.\n --history <glob> Files that log what was decided rather than deciding\n it - journals, changelogs, minutes. Their links are\n still checked; their obligations are not. Repeatable.\n A pattern whose files an ignore leaves out is\n refused: no journal it names would be read.\n --baseline <file> Accept the findings recorded in this file and report\n only what is new since. The file has to be there: a\n path that reads nothing accepts nothing and says so\n nowhere. A \"baseline\" in the configuration may name a\n file not recorded yet; a path typed here may not.\n --record-baseline <f> Write today's findings to this file as accepted debt,\n and exit 0 without judging them. With --format json\n the recording is a JSON document.\n --ratchet Also fail when a baseline entry no longer occurs, so\n a paid-off exemption cannot outlive the defect.\n --no-config Ignore .spec-graph.json and the package.json key.\n --format <fmt> human, json, sarif, github, gitlab or markdown. json\n is for check, query or diff. sarif is the interchange\n format GitHub code scanning and editors already read,\n github the workflow commands a GitHub Actions log\n turns into annotations, and gitlab the Code Quality\n report a GitLab merge request reads, all three for\n check; markdown is a table for a pull-request comment\n or $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY, for check or diff (default:\n human)\n --graph-format <fmt> dot, mermaid or json (default: dot)\n --documents-only Leave items out of the exported graph\n --rule <id>=<severity> Override one rule: error, warn, info or off. A project\n rule is named in full: project:no-draft-dependency.\n Repeatable.\n --max <n> Show at most n findings (0 = no limit)\n --max-warnings <n> Fail when warnings exceed n (default: no limit)\n --strict Raise every warning to an error. An explicit --rule\n still wins, so --strict --rule x=warn exempts x.\n --color / --no-color Force colour on or off, whatever NO_COLOR, FORCE_COLOR\n and the terminal say. The two together are refused\n --ascii / --no-ascii ASCII glyphs or Unicode ones. SPEC_GRAPH_ASCII asks\n for ASCII, unless it is empty, 0 or false. Either\n option wins over it, and over what the terminal is\n taken for. The two together are refused\n --verbose Include parse problems, per-file detail, and every\n reference --ignore-ref or --ignore-family silenced\n --explain With rules: add each rule's selector and the ADR\n that decided it\n -h, --help Show this help\n -v, --version Show the version\n\n An option belongs to the commands that read it, and any other command\n refuses it by name:\n\n --root, --verbose check, query, graph, rules\n --ignore, --history check, query, graph\n --format check, query, diff\n --graph-format, --documents-only graph\n --explain rules\n every other option check\n\n --no-config, --no-color and --ascii are taken by every command: each is\n true already of a command with nothing to read it for. --color and\n --no-ascii are not: each would say that a command drew what only a check\n draws.\n\n An option beside its own opposite is refused, whichever comes first:\n --color beside --no-color, and --ascii beside --no-ascii. The later would\n decide and the earlier go unread. Either alone wins over the environment,\n and the same option twice is that option once.\n\n An option that takes one value is refused given two, as in --root a\n --root b: the later would be read and the earlier go unread. That is each\n option above with a value that is not marked Repeatable, and one rule\n given two severities by --rule. Two values are compared as each is read,\n so one value twice is that value once however it is spelled: --root .\n beside --root ./ names one directory, and so on Windows does C:\\x beside\n c:\\x, a drive letter naming its volume in either case.\n\n A baseline to read is refused beside one to record, --baseline beside\n --record-baseline: a recording writes every finding and opens no\n baseline. So is each option a recording does not read, since it judges,\n shows and colours no finding: --ratchet, --strict, --max, --max-warnings,\n --color, --no-ascii, and --format sarif, github or gitlab. So is one\n family given to both --family and --ignore-family, whose citations are\n passed over whatever asked for them. One family asked for beside another\n ignored is taken.\n\n A value that begins with -- reads as an option, so the option before it is\n refused as missing its value. A name that does begin so is written ./--name\n for a file, [-]-name in a pattern and \\--name for a reference target.\n\n A line that is wrong is refused with --help or --version on it too, an\n option a recording does not read among them, and --help beside --version\n is refused: one of the two answers would go unread. What a command still\n needs, a selector or two exports, is what --help is for: query --help and\n diff --help print it. The help reads no disk, so what only the run finds,\n a --root that is not there or a --history an ignore leaves out, is\n answered by it.\n\nSELECTORS\n A selector is a path through the graph.\n\n item[openness=open] -delegates-to-> document[phase=retired]\n document[phase=active] -assumes-> document[phase=retired]\n document =supersedes=> document\n *[path^=docs/adr] -contains-> item[state=accepted-debt]\n\n Node types: document, item, * (any)\n Attributes: id, kind, title, path, file, line, phase, status, receptivity,\n alias, document, state (or disposition), openness, section,\n text, body, evidence, conflicted, fm.<front-matter-key>\n Operators: = != ^= $= *= ~= and [attr] for \"is present\"\n ~= is a regular expression, matched by an automaton that cannot\n backtrack: linear in the subject, whatever the pattern. It reads\n the usual syntax minus backreferences and lookaround, which are\n not regular - both are refused when the selector is read, with\n the character pointed at\n Relations: -kind-> <-kind- =kind=> <=kind= (= forms are transitive)\n\nEXIT CODES\n 0 clean\n 1 findings at error severity (or over --max-warnings)\n 2 the tool could not run\n\n An input that is set and names nothing is a 2, named on stderr, and never\n read as if it had not been given: an empty value, a family name no family\n has, a list of families no document here belongs to, a --root that is no\n directory, a second word after rules, an option of another command. So\n are two things of which one would go unread: an option beside its own\n opposite, an option that takes one value given two, --baseline beside\n --record-baseline, an option a recording does not read, a family both\n asked for and ignored, a --history whose files an ignore leaves out,\n --help beside --version.\n\nCONFIGURATION\n Anything repeated on every run belongs in the repository rather than in the\n command. spec-graph reads the first of these that exists:\n\n .spec-graph.json, spec-graph.config.json, or a \"spec-graph\" key in\n package.json\n\n { \"patterns\": [\"docs/**/*.md\"],\n \"ignoreReferences\": [\"trap *\"],\n \"ignoreFamilies\": [\"RFC\"],\n \"historyPatterns\": [\"**/JOURNAL_*.md\", \"archive/**\"],\n \"baseline\": \".spec-graph-baseline.json\",\n \"severities\": { \"self-reference\": \"off\" },\n \"strict\": true,\n \"maxRelated\": 3 }\n\n A flag always wins over the file, and list flags add to it rather than\n replacing it: --family RFC reads the citations \"ignoreFamilies\" passes\n over. maxRelated has no flag: it caps how many related locations one\n finding lists, 8 unless set, and 0 lists none.\n\n A problem in that file stops the run with exit 2, named on stderr: invalid\n JSON, an unknown key, a rule that does not compile, one family in both\n \"families\" and \"ignoreFamilies\", a file that is there and cannot be read. A configuration that did not load checks a different\n repository than the one configured, and would report that one as consistent.\n --no-config runs on defaults instead.\n\nPROJECT RULES\n A convention spec-graph never anticipated is a selector plus a sentence, and\n belongs in the same file. Every rule declared here runs beside the built-ins\n and is reported, baselined, escalated by --strict and silenced by --rule in\n exactly the same way.\n\n { \"rules\": {\n \"no-draft-dependency\": {\n \"query\": \"document[phase=active] -depends-on-> document[phase=draft]\",\n \"message\": \"{0} depends on {1}, which is still a draft\",\n \"hint\": \"wait for {1} to be accepted, or drop it from {0.path}\",\n \"severity\": \"error\" } } }\n\n query One selector, or a list of them read as a union.\n message The headline. {0} is the first node on the path, {1} the next;\n {1.phase} and {0.fm.owner} read any selector attribute.\n hint The next action. Optional, and templated the same way.\n severity error, warn, info or off. Defaults to warn - a rule a team has\n just written has not yet earned the right to fail their build.\n\n The id is the name with project: in front, which is why it can never collide\n with a built-in. A selector that does not parse, or a {2} the query can never\n reach, is reported when the file is read rather than found missing later.\n\n To see what one matches without copying its selector out of the file:\n\n spec-graph query project:no-draft-dependency --verbose\n\nADOPTING THIS ON AN OLD REPOSITORY\n Record what is already wrong, then report only what happens next:\n\n spec-graph check --record-baseline .spec-graph-baseline.json\n git add .spec-graph-baseline.json\n\n The file is keyed by specification and citation, not by line number, so it\n survives edits, moves and renames. Findings that stop occurring are reported\n so the file can be tightened; nothing new gets in.\n\nEXAMPLES\n spec-graph \"docs/**/*.md\"\n spec-graph check --rule self-reference=off --format json\n spec-graph query 'item[openness=open] -delegates-to-> document[phase=retired]'\n spec-graph check --ignore-ref \"trap *\" # [[trap 55]] tags a concept, not a file\n spec-graph graph --documents-only --graph-format mermaid > graph.mmd\n spec-graph check --history \"**/JOURNAL_*.md\" # a log is not a specification\n spec-graph check --baseline .spec-graph-baseline.json\n spec-graph rules --explain # including this repository's own\n spec-graph rules ghost-handover --explain # and why it exists\n spec-graph check --rule project:no-draft-dependency=off\n spec-graph query project:no-draft-dependency # what does that rule match?\n spec-graph check --format markdown >> \"$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY\"\n spec-graph check --format github # annotations from an Actions log\n spec-graph check --format gitlab > gl-code-quality-report.json\n spec-graph diff base.json head.json --format markdown >> \"$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY\"\n";
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  if (found === null || !found.isDirectory()) {
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  err(`spec-graph: --root "${options.root}" is not ${found === null ? 'there' : 'a directory'}\n`);
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  return EXIT_ERROR;
@@ -921,10 +951,10 @@ async function run(io, err) {
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  // Read before `rules` prints anything, so that command lists the conventions
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  // this repository will actually check rather than the ones spec-graph ships.
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  const loaded = options.noConfig
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- ? { config: {}, source: null, problems: [], root: options.root }
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+ ? { config: {}, source: null, problems: [], root: start }
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  : options.rootExplicit
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- ? { ...loadConfig(options.root), root: options.root }
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- : discoverConfig(options.root);
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+ ? { ...loadConfig(start), root: start }
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+ : discoverConfig(start);
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  for (const problem of loaded.problems)
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  err(`spec-graph: ${problem}\n`);
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  // A configuration that did not load means a run against a different
@@ -944,7 +974,7 @@ async function run(io, err) {
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  // How far the root moved up. Everything a repository declares about itself is
945
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  // relative to the root; everything typed on the command line is relative to
946
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  // where it was typed, and this is what keeps those two readings apart.
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- const here = below(root, options.root);
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+ const here = below(root, start);
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  // A `--rule` naming a project rule that does not exist is a flag that
949
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  // silently does nothing, and nothing in the output would distinguish that
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  // from a rule that ran and found none.
@@ -1037,8 +1067,10 @@ async function run(io, err) {
1037
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  err(`spec-graph: ${error.message}\n`);
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  return EXIT_ERROR;
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  }
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+ // A root that was named is named as it was typed, as every other refusal
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+ // of it is; the one discovery found is named as it was found.
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  if (result.files.length === 0) {
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- err(`spec-graph: no specifications matched ${patterns.map((p) => `"${p}"`).join(', ')}\n looked under ${root}\n`);
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+ err(`spec-graph: no specifications matched ${patterns.map((p) => `"${p}"`).join(', ')}\n looked under ${options.rootExplicit ? options.root : root}\n`);
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  return EXIT_ERROR;
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  }
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  // A journal named on the line and never read. A `--history` pattern marks
@@ -1262,6 +1294,11 @@ async function run(io, err) {
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  * arithmetic.
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  */
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  function below(root, from) {
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+ // `from` is where the run starts as `path.resolve` gives it, which ends in
1298
+ // no separator but at a filesystem root, `/` or `C:\`, and there `below` is
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+ // `''` whether the strip takes every slash, takes one, or writes a word in
1300
+ // their place: the mutants of this line are equivalent since the run
1301
+ // resolves where it starts. The strip stays for a path passed as typed.
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  const start = toPosix(from).replace(/[/]+$/, '');
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  // The prefix test only guards a root that is neither `start` nor above it,
1267
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  // which nothing returns; for `start` itself, slicing past its end is `''`
@@ -1438,9 +1475,15 @@ async function runDiff(paths, cwd, format, out, err) {
1438
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  for (const path of paths) {
1439
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  let raw;
1440
1477
  try {
1478
+ // A `\` is a separator, as it is in a root and a baseline: kept as a
1479
+ // character, `sub\a.json` typed at the top read a file of that name on
1480
+ // Linux, where the same baseline is `sub/a.json`, and `..\sub\a.json`
1481
+ // typed below it read nothing. The directory it was typed in is read
1482
+ // as the host gives it, so a diff reads its files there, `\` or none.
1483
+ //
1441
1484
  // Without the encoding this is a Buffer, which JSON.parse decodes as
1442
1485
  // UTF-8 all the same - so emptying the literal parses the same export.
1443
- raw = await readFile(resolve(cwd, path), 'utf8');
1486
+ raw = await readFile(resolve(cwd, toPosix(path)), 'utf8');
1444
1487
  }
1445
1488
  catch (error) {
1446
1489
  err(`spec-graph: cannot read ${path}: ${error.message}\n`);