Comet Phase 1: Open

On first entering a phase, handing off to a new Agent, or restoring context, read and follow Task Context and Artifact Language. Prefer the current continuation or claimed Action's contextRequest; do not retrieve repeatedly during uninterrupted work in the same phase.

Before starting or resuming, read and follow comet-classic/reference/classic-layout.md. All OpenSpec CLI calls in this file must use the adapter, and all paths must use the <classic-*> logical roots bound by that protocol.

Prerequisites

• There is no active change, or the user wants to create a new one.

Steps

0. Set the output language

Every question and artifact-generation request passed to OpenSpec must specify the resolved Comet artifact language using a normalized ID such as en or zh-CN. Before a change is initialized, read classic.language from project .comet/config.yaml, then global ~/.comet/config.yaml. After initialization, reuse configuration.language from the current valid response; use comet state get <name> language only when it is missing. Fall back to the current request's language only when no language is configured. proposal.md, design.md, and tasks.md must primarily use that language.

0a. Bind the current change

When the response already includes agent.continuation.mode, follow comet-classic/reference/auto-transition.md first. wait distinguishes manual handoff from waiting for the original executor under auto-transition.md, without running recovery queries merely because the compatibility field says nextAction.kind: reconcile. Use the current response’s commands and inputs; submit completion only after the Skill’s actual work is complete. Recovery rules below based on nextAction.kind apply only to older responses without mode.