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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Coordination and Merge Stabilization

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-06-12 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — defect locations live in the committed validation analyses, not in requirement text; FRs are behavioral
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs — operator scenarios (unattended merge, honest failures, no deadlocks)
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders — Purpose/Scenarios readable without code knowledge; Key Entities defines terms
  • ✅ All mandatory sections completed

Requirement Completeness

  • ✅ No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers remain — brief answered all discovery questions (§7 of validation brief)
  • ✅ Requirements are testable and unambiguous — each FR names observable behavior; each NFR has a threshold
  • ✅ Requirement types are separated (Functional / Non-Functional / Constraints)
  • ✅ IDs are unique across FR-### (001–013), NFR-### (001–005), and C-### (001–005) entries
  • ✅ All requirement rows include a non-empty Status value (Proposed / Accepted)
  • ✅ Non-functional requirements include measurable thresholds
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic (no implementation details)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined — 5 scenarios + 5 edge cases, each mapped to FRs
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified — dirty-resync refusal, pre-existing husks, exception-narrowing fallout, crash-between-record-and-commit, new ref-advance sites
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded — C-001/C-002 + Out of Scope section; exclusion table in validation brief
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified — Assumptions 1–4; ordering constraints C-004

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria — Success Criteria 1–6 map FR groups; per-class AC sketch in validation brief §6
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows — primary unattended-merge flow plus four secondary flows
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification

Notes

  • Validation performed 2026-06-12 against spec.md as written; all items pass on first iteration.
  • Per-class acceptance criteria (AC-B, AC-C, AC-D, AC-A, AC-F*, AC-H1) are detailed in validation/cluster-validation-brief.md §6 and will be expanded into tasks during /spec-kitty.tasks.