chore(openspec): delete three abandoned exploration stubs - #507
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`openspec/changes/` held three folders containing only `exploration.md`: `bound-generation-length` (#422), `reach-same-verdicts` (#427) and `surface-merged-body-contradictions` (#409). All three issues shipped and closed WITHOUT an SDD cycle -- #422 via PR #439, #427 via PR #438, #409 via PRs #442/#443 -- so these are abandoned exploration notes, not parked work. They are deleted rather than archived: every one of the 30+ entries under `openspec/changes/archive/` is a completed SDD cycle carrying proposal/design/tasks/specs plus an archive report, and none holds a single file. Moving exploration-only stubs there would redefine the archive from "finished cycle" to "folder I stopped using". Git history keeps the notes if they are ever wanted. `openspec/changes/` now holds only `archive/`.
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openspec/changes/held three folders containing onlyexploration.md:surface-merged-body-contradictionsbound-generation-lengthreach-same-verdictsAll three issues are closed and shipped without an SDD cycle. Someone explored, decided not to formalize, and implemented directly. These are abandoned notes, not parked work.
Why deleted and not archived
Every one of the 30+ entries under
openspec/changes/archive/is a completed SDD cycle carryingproposal.md,design.md,tasks.md,specs/andarchive-report.md. Counting files per folder, none holds a single file.Filing exploration-only stubs there would redefine the archive from "finished cycle" to "folder I stopped using", which costs the directory its meaning. Git history keeps the notes if they are ever wanted.
openspec/changes/now holds onlyarchive/.Disclosure: no review receipt
Consent was granted (lineage
review-0c001660a6a37b48, medium risk, one focus lens).review-reliabilityreturnedinspection.status: "incomplete"with zero findings: the lens agents are configured with only Read/Grep/Glob and cannot run the read-only Git commands the contract requires against the frozen trees. It did not substitute the live worktree, which is the correct fail-closed behavior.That is the third lens agent to fail identically today across two candidates, so the outcome is structural rather than transient. Nothing was captured — an access failure is not completion — and the lineage stayed in
state: reviewingwithreceipt: expected_missing. Shipping without a receipt is the maintainer's explicit decision, as in PRs #503 and #506.