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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Do Dispatch Open-Op Lifecycle

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-06-10 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — CLI command names and record paths are the product's user-facing surface, not implementation
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs (truthful audit record for owners/auditors/agents)
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders (Purpose + scenarios readable without code knowledge)
  • ✅ 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 (10% latency, 5 s @ 10k files, 90% coverage, idempotency)
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic (no implementation details)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified (double close, routing failure, sweep race, JSON mode)
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (rename deferred C-002, Claude-Code-only hooks C-003)
  • ✅ 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

  • All items pass. Discovery answers (remediation mode, hook scope, migration posture, breaking-change posture) were resolved interactively with the user before spec authoring; no deferred decisions remain.