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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: CI down-route of prose-only .py diffs

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-09-21 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

> Note: because this is a CI-infrastructure mission, a small number of > irreducibly technical mechanics (AST normalization, the # type: guard) are > named in Constraints C-002/FR-002. They are load-bearing correctness > constraints from the #4842 design review, not gratuitous implementation > detail; the user-facing outcomes in Success Criteria remain technology-agnostic.

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

only safe because full-routing-for-real-code (Story 2) and fail-closed (Story 3) hold. Planning must not treat Story 1 as separable from 2/3.

  • Items marked incomplete require spec updates before /spec-kitty.plan.
  • Three P1 user stories are intentionally co-equal: the down-route (Story 1) is