🤔 How to update Spec-Kit on a initialized project?

[heyvoon]

Hello all. How to update Spec-Kit on a initialized project?
First I've initialized Spec-Kit on an existing project. Now Spec-Kit has introduced new features. How do I update it on the project?

[heyvoon]

Well this is what I did on a project using Kilo Code;

1. Upgrade specify run
   uv tool install specify-cli --force --from git+https://github.com/github/spec-kit.git
2. specify init --here --force (Inside the project folder)

Now I have double Specify slash "/" commands. The old ones and the new ones.

I manually deleted the old ones. I guess we are missing an UPGRADE function!

[danieldekay]

Better check git after the force upgrade. Overwrote my constitution -- and I actually had customized the templates.

[armoucar]

yep, and from what I saw, this is the only file we should keep an eye on. It will always be overridden, so we have to make sure to roll this one back after running the command.

[vvirtues]

uv tool upgrade

??

[blueyo]

I am facing the same issue, I tried to update using the uv tool install specify-cli --force --from git+https://github.com/github/spec-kit.git command.

I do not see the new /spek-kit.specify commands !

Please tell us how to make an proper upgrade to the latest version ?

[anchildress1]

I documented how I did it here a couple of times without issues. The docs are waiting for maintainer review, but lmk if something needs to change. I can easily push another commit. 😀

[InfantLab]

That's handy thanks,
but doesn't seem to cover this particular case directly:

1. specify init . already run for a project.
2. New specify version adds new/different commands
3. ideally we want to achieve equivalent specify upgrade .

[heyvoon]

well, I figure it out. You'll have to run specify init . --force

--force` | Flag | Force merge/overwrite when initializing in current directory (skip confirmation)

ps.: You will have to manually delete the OLD .md from the old versions.

[anchildress1]

😄 Thanks! I'll add this to my list of command to add to the next page.