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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Runtime Recovery And Audit Safety

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-04-06 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. Specification is ready for /spec-kitty.plan.
  • Initial validation 2026-04-06: 16 FR, 6 NFR, 7 C entries — all with unique IDs and non-empty status.
  • Re-validated 2026-04-06 after controller brief corrections:
  • Assumption 1: corrected merge state path to mission-scoped .kittify/runtime/merge/<mission_id>/state.json
  • Assumption 3: corrected to reflect accept becomes direct canonical command, not shim-dispatched
  • FR-003: corrected from "half-written entries" to "duplicate event_id guarding" (JSONL is line-atomic)
  • WP04: annotated as potential split candidate during planning (audit scope vs. occurrence classification)
  • Added suggested execution order (WP05 first, WP03+WP01 parallel, WP02, WP04 last)
  • Added duplicate-event risk to risk table
  • 6 user scenarios cover all 5 WP areas plus the cross-cutting progress dashboard case.
  • No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers present; all scope decisions were resolved in the mission brief.