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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Advancing next: task-board authority unification

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-09-25 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — behavior stated at the next CLI / decision-envelope level; concrete file:line seams are deferred to plan
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs (autonomous-loop reliability, release blockers)
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders (loop behavior, not code internals, in the scenarios)
  • ✅ All mandatory sections completed

Requirement Completeness

  • ✅ No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers remain (advance contract resolved via Decision Moment 01M3BGRBWBDWG3F3EEA4Z5S8VQ)
  • ✅ 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 (issued-step identity assertion, single-authority count, fail-closed raise, ~60s tier)
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable (0 recovery steps, exit codes, 0 disagreements, 100% blocked-with-recovery)
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic (loop outcomes / exit codes, not code internals)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified (early-reject, approve, unmaterialized coord, multi-WP, forward-only DAG)
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (C-004: folds #4980+#4975; cross-links the rest)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria (mapped to User Stories 1–3 + edge cases)
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows (rejection re-dispatch, coord implement, honest blocked floor)
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification

Notes

  • All items pass. Behavior is anchored to the two P0 issues' "Expected" sections and the operator-confirmed advance contract; implementation seam (route advancing action-selection through the coord-aware finalized-task-board authority) is deferred to /spec-kitty.plan.
  • Post-spec adversarial squad folded (analyst-annie + reviewer-renata, opus): added the two BLOCKER arms — the multi-WP dependency-order scenario (US1 S5) and the combined review-reject × coord/lanes_with_coord cell (US3, the load-bearing unification proof); added absolute anchors to parity arms (US1 S2 / US2 S2/S3), the early-reject arm, the unmaterialized-coord fail-closed arm (US4 S4) and the dependency-walled arm (US4 S3); pinned the recovery-command shape + exit codes on FR-004/US4; sharpened NFR-001 (snapshot byte-identical, not just step-id), NFR-002 (single authority AT the shared action-selection seam feeding both WP-iteration builders + the DAG-advance path; existing authorities delegate or retire), NFR-003 (Verified-by → US4 S4); enumerated the parallel-authority inventory in Key Entities; and split SC-005/SC-006 so both issues get an original-repro gate.