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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Namespace-Aware Artifact Body Sync

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-03-09 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
  • ✅ Requirement types are separated (Functional / Non-Functional / Constraints)
  • ✅ IDs are unique across FR-###, NFR-###, and C-### entries
  • ✅ All requirement rows include a non-empty Status value
  • ✅ Non-functional requirements include measurable thresholds
  • ✅ 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 pass after revision. Spec is ready for /spec-kitty.plan.
  • Constitution upload explicitly scoped out per discovery (Q1 answer A).
  • manifest_version definition clarified per discovery (Q2 answer A) and captured in C-004.
  • Constraint C-001 references SQLite offline queue reuse — this is an architectural constraint, not an implementation detail, because it bounds the design space for planning.

Revision 1 (2026-03-09) — Review feedback fixes

Three issues identified and resolved:

1. [P1] FR-004 artifact set incomplete: Added research/ directory glob to match user story 1 acceptance scenario 2 which explicitly covers research/ directory artifacts. 2. [P1] Path identity inconsistency: FR-003 originally said "repository-relative" but the dossier indexer produces feature-relative paths. Corrected FR-003 to specify feature-relative paths. Added FR-014 requiring path form agreement between body uploader and indexer. Updated User Story 1 scenario 2 and ArtifactBodyUploadTask entity to match. 3. [P2] FR-010 idempotency over-specified: Removed client-side content hash pre-skip. Idempotency is now defined as safe re-submission with the receiver returning already_exists when content hash matches. Client maintains no local cache of presumed remote state. 4. Residual risk flagged**: NFR-003 now explicitly notes that per-task backoff requires the plan phase to address queue schema changes (the current schema tracks retry count globally, not per-task backoff timing).