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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: CLI Event Log Integration

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-01-27 Feature: spec.md Status: ✅ PASSED - Ready for /spec-kitty.plan

Content Quality

  • [✅] No implementation details in success criteria (user-focused outcomes)
  • [✅] Focused on user value and business needs (SaaS foundation, conflict detection, parallel workflows)
  • [⚠️] Written for non-technical stakeholders (Note: This is a developer-facing infrastructure feature, so technical details are appropriate)
  • [✅] All mandatory sections completed (User Scenarios, Requirements, Success Criteria, Assumptions)

Requirement Completeness

  • [✅] No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers remain
  • [✅] Requirements are testable and unambiguous (all use MUST with concrete verification criteria)
  • [✅] Success criteria are measurable (100% coverage, <500ms, zero regressions)
  • [✅] Success criteria are technology-agnostic (focused on developer experience, not tech stack)
  • [✅] All acceptance scenarios are defined (7 user stories with Given/When/Then scenarios)
  • [✅] Edge cases are identified (6 edge cases covering corruption, conflicts, concurrency)
  • [✅] Scope is clearly bounded ("Out of Scope" section: vendoring, 1.x migration)
  • [✅] Dependencies and assumptions identified (7 assumptions including Git, POSIX, SQLite)

Feature Readiness

  • [✅] All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria (28 FRs with MUST statements)
  • [✅] User scenarios cover primary flows (P1: emission, reading, indexing, dependency; P2: conflicts, rotation, errors)
  • [✅] Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria (8 measurable outcomes)
  • [⚠️] No implementation details leak into specification (Note: Technical infrastructure feature necessarily mentions technologies like Lamport clocks, event sourcing - this is the WHAT, not the HOW)

Notes

Validation Summary

All critical checklist items passed. Specification is complete, unambiguous, and ready for implementation planning.

Technical Details Justification

This is a technical infrastructure feature where the "what" (integrate event sourcing library) is inherently technical. The success criteria are now user-focused (developer experience), but functional requirements necessarily mention specific technologies (JSONL storage, Lamport clocks, CRDT merge rules) because that IS what the feature delivers.

Compare to a technical infrastructure feature where mentioning specific tools is unavoidable because the feature IS about integrating those tools.

Next Steps

✅ Ready for /spec-kitty.plan - no spec updates required