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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Canonical Path-Trust & Guard-Capability Seams

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before /spec-kitty.plan Created: 2026-06-17 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details leak as requirements (file/symbol refs are scope anchors, not impl prescriptions)
  • ✅ Focused on the value (one authority for each path-trust decision; unmaskable gate)
  • ✅ Written so a maintainer/stakeholder can follow it
  • ✅ All mandatory sections completed

Requirement Completeness

  • ✅ No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers remain
  • ✅ Requirements are testable and unambiguous
  • ✅ Requirement types separated (FR / NFR / C)
  • ✅ IDs unique across FR-###, NFR-###, C-###
  • ✅ All requirement rows have a non-empty Status
  • ✅ Non-functional requirements include measurable thresholds
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic where the outcome allows (some are infra-specific by nature — guard/CI mission)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined (US-1..US-6)
  • ✅ Edge cases identified (real-format slug union; XOR-helper holdout; #1716-blocked pin)
  • ✅ Scope clearly bounded (Out of Scope + C-007 binding non-goals)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All FRs have clear acceptance criteria (mapped to SC-001..007)
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows
  • ✅ Meets measurable outcomes in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No stray implementation prescriptions beyond necessary scope anchors

Notes

infrastructure-specific (CI trigger coverage, ratchet keying) — that is intrinsic to the value, not a leak.

  • This is a guard/CI + Shared-Kernel refactor mission; some Success Criteria are necessarily
  • Goal C's staple-on-vs-split call is deliberately deferred to plan (C-003), not left as a spec ambiguity.