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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Agent Profile System

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-02-23 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

Glossary Alignment

  • ✅ "Tool" used only for concrete runtime products (Claude Code, Codex)
  • ✅ "Agent" used for logical collaborator identity/role
  • ✅ "Work package" used for executable slices of work (not "task" or "ticket")
  • ✅ "Lane" used for work package state positions (planned, doing, for_review, done)
  • ✅ "Doctrine" used for the governance knowledge domain model
  • ✅ "Feature" used for planning and delivery units in kitty-specs
  • ✅ "Constitution selection" used for project-level doctrine activation

Notes

  • Spec contains some implementation-adjacent references (Pydantic, JSON Schema Draft 7, YAML) that describe the contract/format rather than implementation choices — acceptable for a retrospective spec documenting completed work
  • The spec documents both completed (WP01-WP04, WP06-WP07) and planned (WP05, WP08-WP15) work packages
  • __main__.py fix (originally WP10 scope) was applied early to unblock CLI usage