Checklists

requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Charter UX and Org-Pack Vocabulary

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-05-23 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — except where vocabulary requires naming specific code paths in the brief (research/mission-brief.md), not the spec.
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders (FR/NFR/C tables readable without code context)
  • ✅ All mandatory sections completed

Requirement Completeness

  • ✅ No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers remain (3 open questions explicitly flagged for architect review under "Open questions", not as in-table markers)
  • ✅ 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 (NFR-001 ms targets; NFR-003 zero-regression; NFR-004 zero-fixture-failure)
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined (Scenarios 1-4)
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified (fresh-checkout, stale doctrine, uncommitted artifacts, missing built-in target)
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (Out of Scope section enumerates excluded slices)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified (C-001 cites the merge-semantics ADR; Assumptions section)

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows (Scenarios 1-4)
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification (file paths and code symbols are confined to the mission brief)

Notes

  • Three open architect-review questions documented in Open questions section. These are first-class architect decisions (enhances vs augments field name, Relation.REPLACES vs Relation.OVERRIDES enum naming, preflight invocation scope) and are NOT spec-readiness blockers. Architect Alphonso will resolve them during plan remediation.
  • change_mode: bulk_edit set in meta.json (Constraint C-002). Bulk-edit occurrence map will be authored as the first WP of the plan.