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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Autonomous Multi-Agent Orchestration Research

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-01-18 Feature: spec.md Mission: Research

Content Quality

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

Research Specification Completeness

  • ✅ Research objective clearly stated
  • ✅ All research questions defined with priority
  • ✅ Each research question has deliverables
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Scope boundaries (out of scope) defined
  • ✅ All 12 agents explicitly listed for investigation
  • ✅ Assumptions documented
  • ✅ Risks identified

Requirement Quality

  • ✅ No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers remain
  • ✅ Research questions are answerable through documentation research
  • ✅ Success criteria define concrete deliverables
  • ✅ Quality gates are verifiable
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified

Research Readiness

  • ✅ Research questions are specific and bounded
  • ✅ Deliverables are concrete artifacts (matrices, schemas, documentation)
  • ✅ Cursor CLI investigation specifically included (per user request)
  • ✅ Headless/CLI-only scope confirmed (per user clarification)

Notes

  • All items pass validation
  • Spec is ready for /spec-kitty.plan (research methodology planning)
  • Research will require live web searches for current agent documentation