Checklists

requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Charter kind/tier vocabulary cutover closeout

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-10-09 Mission: Link to spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — Exception noted: this is a dogfooding governance/tech-debt mission whose deliverable IS code-structural (authorities + architectural gates). File/gate references are the subject matter, not leaked implementation; consistent with the repo's existing kitty-specs.
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs (drift-proofing the vocabularies; closing diagnostic blind spots)
  • ✅ Written for the real stakeholders (maintainers, agent harnesses, operators)
  • ✅ 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-### (001–015), NFR-### (001–004), C-### (001–004), SC-### (001–004) and match the grammar
  • ✅ All requirement rows include a non-empty Status value (Open)
  • ✅ Non-functional requirements include measurable thresholds (zero issues; unchanged names; verified-against-consumers)
  • ✅ Every FR row and success criterion carries a delivery label and no-op mark
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are outcome-oriented
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified (legitimate-construct false-positive guard; directory-vs-token; DEFAULT_KIND_GATE)
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (C-002 hard out-of-scope fence)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified

Mission Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows (drift-proofing, diagnostics coverage, residue cleanup)
  • ✅ Mission meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification beyond the intrinsic code-structural subject matter

Notes

  • Grounding performed by a four-lens adversarial scout squad mapping every issue-cited (pre-cutover) path to current reality; four material scope decisions resolved with the operator and recorded as Decision Moments.
  • All items pass. Ready for /spec-kitty.plan.