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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Charter Preflight Missing-Charter Advisory Mode

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-08-16 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

  • This is an internal governance/tooling bug-fix mission (spec-kitty's own charter preflight), so requirement and edge-case language necessarily names existing code-level entities (charter.yaml, run_preflight_or_abort, layer names) that are already canonical domain vocabulary in this codebase — these are treated as domain terms, not implementation prescriptions. No specific fix mechanism (function bodies, control flow) is specified; C-002 constrains where the fix lives (shared hook) without prescribing how.
  • All items pass on first validation pass; no iteration required.