Checklists

requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Smarter Feature Merge with Pre-flight and Auto-cleanup

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2025-01-18 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

Notes

  • All items passed validation
  • Spec derived from real post-mortem data (features 016 and 002) with concrete metrics
  • User stories prioritized P1-P4 based on impact from post-mortem analysis
  • Out of scope section clearly delineates boundaries (jj-specific, storage migration, octopus merge)
  • Ready for /spec-kitty.plan phase