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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Documentation Quality Hardening Gate

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-06-29 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — see Note 1: brownfield-tooling exception
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders — Purpose section; Background is necessarily technical (Note 1)
  • ✅ All mandatory sections completed

Requirement Completeness

  • ✅ No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers remain (decision verify: clean, 0 deferred)
  • ✅ 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 (all Draft)
  • ✅ Non-functional requirements include measurable thresholds (< 5 s; 100%; deterministic order)
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic — outcome-framed; verification references test surfaces (Note 1)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined (primary + exceptions A/B/C)
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (In/Out of scope)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria (via Success Criteria + scenarios)
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification — Note 1

Notes

explicit intent is to unify and extend existing doc-validation surfaces rather than build a user-facing product feature. The spec therefore names the concrete surfaces it unifies (relative_link_fixer.py, test_adr_content_invariance.py, etc.) and the markers/shards involved. This is deliberate and load-bearing: omitting them would misrepresent the work as greenfield and risk Lane A being re-built from scratch. The requirements remain outcome-framed (the gate fails on broken links; the census counts all ADRs); the surface references are context, not prescription.

  • Note 1 (brownfield-tooling exception): This is an internal CI-tooling mission whose
  • All items pass. Ready for /spec-kitty.plan.