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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Charter Activation Catalog Coherence

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-09-19 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — behaviors named, mechanism deferred to plan
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs (maintainer/agent operating charter tooling)
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders (developer-tooling stakeholder = Spec Kitty maintainer)
  • ✅ 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 (< 2 s; byte-identical; RED→GREEN)
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable (zero edits / zero cross-checkout writes / zero placeholders / zero-line diff)
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic (observable outcomes, not internals)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (C-004 rejects minimal-writer; C-005 names out-of-scope tickets)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows (4 stories mapped 1:1 to the 4 findings)
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification

Notes

the spec pins the observable outcome (no silent placeholders), not the mechanism.

  • Items marked incomplete require spec updates before /spec-kitty.plan
  • F4b internal mechanism deliberately left to a red-first repro at implement time (assumption recorded);