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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Planning Artifact and Query Consistency

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-04-08 Mission: 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

Mission Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows
  • ✅ Mission meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification

Notes

All items pass. Ready for /spec-kitty.plan.

Key contract decisions recorded in the spec:

  • Planning-artifact work packages remain outside the execution lane graph and resolve to repository root.
  • Lifecycle status lanes remain separate from execution-lane membership.
  • Query mode is read-only, does not require --agent, and exposes mission_state: "not_started" plus preview_step for fresh runs.
  • Advancing mode remains the only state-mutating path and still requires --agent with --result.