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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Charter Contract Cleanup Tranche 1

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-04-28 Feature: 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

Feature Readiness

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

Notes

  • Items marked incomplete require spec updates before /spec-kitty.plan
  • This is a bug-fix / contract cleanup mission. The spec inherently references CLI surfaces (charter synthesize --json) and test files because those surfaces ARE the user-facing contract under repair. References to file paths, test names, and CLI flags are documenting the user-visible contract surface and the verification commands, not prescribing implementation. The "no implementation details" check is satisfied: the spec does not dictate how to fix the contract (no language/framework prescriptions, no internal data structures), only what the contract must be.
  • All 13 FRs, 6 NFRs, and 7 Cs carry stable IDs and explicit Status values.
  • 9 acceptance criteria (AC-001..AC-009) anchor the four primary user scenarios.
  • 8 measurable success criteria (SC-001..SC-008) capture user-visible outcomes.
  • Out-of-scope items explicitly listed (4 later tranches + 2 boundary rules).
  • Dependencies and assumptions sections present.
  • Validation pass: 1 of 1 — passed on first iteration.