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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Canonical Context Architecture Cleanup

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-03-27 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

  • C-008 references Python 3.11+ and specific libraries (typer, rich, etc.) as a constraint — this is appropriate since it constrains the implementation environment, not the feature behavior.
  • All 6 user stories have acceptance scenarios with Given/When/Then format.
  • Mutable-frontmatter removal (adjustment #2) is captured in FR-009 and User Story 3.
  • Immutable identity (adjustment #1) is captured in FR-021 and User Story 6.
  • One-shot migration as first-class deliverable (adjustment #3) is captured in FR-018 and User Story 6.
  • Thin shims still generate files (adjustment #4) is captured in C-007.
  • Schema version gate (adjustment #5) is captured in FR-020 and C-005.
  • Tracked vs derived boundary (adjustment #6) is captured in FR-011.