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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Canonical Status Model Cleanup

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-03-31 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

  • 17 functional requirements covering finalization bootstrap, frontmatter cleanup, runtime strictness, template cleanup, docs, tests, and migration boundary.
  • 4 non-functional requirements with measurable thresholds.
  • 6 constraints establishing hard boundaries (preserve history, spec-kitty repo only, keep operational metadata, preserve migration tools, no fallback).
  • 7 success criteria verifiable without implementation knowledge.
  • 8 user scenarios covering: finalization, hard-fail, generation, agent reads, dashboard, historical fencing, validate-only, migration.