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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Planning Pipeline Integrity and Runtime Reliability

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-04-07 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.

Key decisions recorded in Assumptions:

  • Three candidate approaches for #524 are left to planning (all satisfy the behavioral outcome)
  • JSON Schema location for wps.yaml fixed at src/specify_cli/schemas/wps.schema.json (FR-005)
  • Legacy prose parser retained, not deleted (FR-012)
  • FR-008/FR-009 tension resolved: code (finalize-tasks) generates tasks.md, LLM produces wps.yaml only (FR-009, FR-011)
  • Downstream consumers (dashboard, doctor, kanban) remain on WP frontmatter path; direct wps.yaml reads are out of scope
  • Slug validator has a single call site in mission_creation.py