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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: CLI Session Survival and Daemon Singleton

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-04-28 Feature: Link to 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

Validation Notes

§"Tranche 1") rather than a discovery interview. Brief-intake mode applied; one gap-filling decision moment opened and resolved (DM-01KQ9M41VJENF0T6H83VRK5DYQ, auth doctor shape = report-plus-active-repair).

(mutual exclusion across processes on one machine). The lock primitive, file path, and platform-specific implementation detail belong in the plan phase, not this spec.

user-visible CLI surface is itself a requirement; the underlying repair mechanism remains an implementation choice for /spec-kitty.plan.

They are calibrated to "no user-perceptible regression in the happy path" and "diagnostic returns before the user gives up", not to a particular profiler tool.

scope drift during planning.

  • Mission is sourced from a comprehensive program brief (start-here.md
  • FR-001 references "machine-wide refresh lock" as a behavioral concept
  • FR-013 / FR-014 name the flags --reset and --unstick-lock because the
  • NFR thresholds (50 ms, 10 s, 30 s, 3 s) are measurable and testable.
  • Out-of-Scope section explicitly excludes Tranches 2–6 work to prevent

Status

All quality gates pass. Spec is ready for /spec-kitty.plan.