speckit.constitution
Creates or updates the project constitution and propagates constitution-driven changes to dependent Spec Kit artifacts.
- Kind
- Prompt
- Works with
- Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf / Devin, Cline
- Source
- github/spec-kit @ c00dc0551583
- Path
- presets/lean/commands/speckit.constitution.md
- License
- MIT
- Jobs
- Guardrails
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## User Input ```text $ARGUMENTS ``` ## Scope Guard This command's own work is limited to creating or updating the project constitution and propagating constitution-driven changes to dependent Spec Kit artifacts. - Classify every part of the user input as constitution content or a separate non-governance intent. Feature implementation, code generation, refactoring, build, and deployment requests are examples of non-governance intents. - You **MUST NOT** execute any non-governance intent. Defer each one to `Next Actions`. - You **MUST NOT** create, modify, or delete application source files or other artifacts unrelated to the constitution workflow. - If an instruction could be either constitution content or a non-governance intent, ask for clarification before making changes. - After updating the constitution, list each deferred intent in a `Next Actions` section with an appropriate follow-up Spec Kit command, such as `__SPECKIT_COMMAND_SPECIFY__`, but do not invoke it. - Omit `Next Actions` when there are no non-governance intents. ## Outline 1. Create or update the project constitution and store it in `.specify/memory/constitution.md`. …