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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Constitution Packaging Safety and Redesign

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-01-12 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs)
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders
  • ✅ All mandatory sections completed

Requirement Completeness

  • ✅ No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers remain
  • ✅ Requirements are testable and unambiguous
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic (no implementation details)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification

Validation Results

Content Quality - PASS ✅

  • Specification focuses on WHAT and WHY, not HOW
  • No mention of specific programming languages or frameworks in requirements
  • User scenarios written from user/business perspective
  • All mandatory sections (User Scenarios, Requirements, Success Criteria) completed

Requirement Completeness - PASS ✅

  • No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers present
  • All 27 functional requirements are testable (FR-001 through FR-027)
  • Success criteria use measurable metrics (verify with commands, Content-Length > 0, completes without errors)
  • Success criteria avoid implementation (e.g., "Dashboard serves HTML content" not "asyncio event loop works")
  • Acceptance scenarios cover all four user stories with Given/When/Then format
  • Edge cases identify boundary conditions (customized constitution during upgrade, killed processes, repeated runs)
  • Scope bounded to four specific goals with clear boundaries
  • Dependencies identified (pyproject.toml changes, template manager updates, migration system)

Feature Readiness - PASS ✅

  • Each functional requirement maps to acceptance scenario in user stories
  • User scenarios prioritized (P1: Safe dogfooding & Optional constitution, P2: Windows dashboard & Smooth upgrades)
  • Each story independently testable with specific verification steps
  • Success criteria measurable (zero filled-in files, 100% commands work, completes in X minutes)
  • No implementation leakage (avoids mentioning Python, asyncio, specific file structures beyond what's necessary)

Notes

All checklist items pass. Specification is ready for /spec-kitty.plan.

The specification successfully captures all four goals: 1. Packaging safety (FR-001 through FR-006) - Clear separation of templates vs runtime artifacts 2. Optional constitution (FR-007 through FR-016) - Interactive discovery with minimal/comprehensive modes 3. Windows dashboard fix (FR-017 through FR-020) - Platform-appropriate signal handling 4. Upgrade migrations (FR-021 through FR-027) - Graceful handling of missing dependencies

All requirements are testable, measurable, and technology-agnostic at the appropriate abstraction level.