Checklists

requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: One meaning for an unclassified mission artifact

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-10-16 Mission: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — the spec names existing internal seams (classifier, projection) as the subject of the fix, which is inherent to an infrastructure-reliability mission; no new tech stack is prescribed
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs (operator does not hit a false consolidate refuse)
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders (Context + User Stories lead with the operator pain)
  • ✅ 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-###, C-### and SC-### entries, and match the requirement-ID grammar
  • ✅ All requirement rows include a non-empty Status value (Open)
  • ✅ Non-functional requirements include measurable thresholds (complexity ≤15; 0 residual re-derivations; byte-identical existing classification; selection assertion green)
  • ✅ Every FR row and success criterion carries a delivery label and no-op mark
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic (user/merge outcomes, not internals)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (#5847 and four excluded paths explicitly out)
  • ✅ 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 beyond naming the seams under repair

Notes

  • Items marked incomplete require spec updates before /spec-kitty.plan — none outstanding.
  • Validation pass 1: all items pass.