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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: CI Coverage Honesty

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-09-25 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

  • Escalation mechanism resolved via Decision Moment DM-01M3CZWFZVV5KSE890F7G2BHZA (fail loudly + deduped P0 issue).
  • Scope expanded during discovery to add FR-008 (release gates on green nightly) at operator request.
  • Some success criteria name CI-internal artifacts (registry rows, shards, nightly) because the "user" here is a maintainer/release owner and the product is the CI signal; these remain outcome-measurable and free of language/framework detail.
  • Foreign-coverage threshold value and aggregate allow-list are deferred to plan (invariant fixed here, not the number) — recorded as an assumption, not a NEEDS CLARIFICATION.