Checklists

requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: CI Pipeline Honesty — Actionable Fixes

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-09-15 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — file/line pointers are traceability, not prescribed implementation
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs (honest CI verdicts for maintainers + fleet)
  • ✅ Written for the maintainer/fleet audience
  • ✅ All mandatory sections completed

Requirement Completeness

  • ✅ No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers remain (decision verify: clean)
  • ✅ 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 (coverage ≥90%, byte-identical blocking, zero lint/type issues)
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic (outcome-framed: complete/non-empty-matrix/distinct-label/failure)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined (RED-first per story)
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (four fixes in; cluster + #4374/#4420/#4429 out)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified (C-004 self-referential CI verification; #4454/#4208 both touch ci-router.yml)

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

regression test obligation, and each fix carries a RED-first ATDD entry point (NFR-002).

  • All items pass. The binding invariant (NFR-001, no fix widens the green path) is pinned by a
  • Ready for /spec-kitty.plan.