Checklists

requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Coord-Shadows Follow-ups Closeout

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-07-12 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — surfaces named as touch-points/entities, not as prescribed implementation
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs — maintainer/operator reliability outcomes
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders — purpose + user stories are plain-language; code anchors confined to entities/matrix
  • ✅ 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 (FR-001..010, NFR-001..005, C-001..006 — each appears once)
  • ✅ All requirement rows include a non-empty Status value (all Open)
  • ✅ Non-functional requirements include measurable thresholds (0 behavioral diffs, 0 new findings, diff/owned-files boundary)
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic (outcome-framed)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (issue matrix + explicit #2566 exclusion + C-004/C-005 containment)
  • ✅ 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

  • Re-verified live on aligned main by a 4-lens brownfield squad (renata/randy/paula/priti); all five findings STILL-REPRODUCE.
  • F1 helper placement (new resolve_subtasks_gate_dir vs. reusing an existing port) is deliberately left as a plan-phase decision (recorded in Assumptions), not a spec ambiguity.
  • #2566 exclusion is a squad verdict, not an omission.