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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Docs Quality Gate Hardening

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-08-08 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — requirements state gate behavior; surfaces are named as context, not prescribed implementations
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs — maintainer/contributor/CI value: loud-not-silent gates
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders — overview + user stories are plain-language
  • ✅ 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 (all Open)
  • ✅ Non-functional requirements include measurable thresholds (≤15 complexity, <2s CI cost, non-vacuity fixture, same-change coverage)
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic (framed as gate behavior/outcomes, not tooling)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined (Given/When/Then per story)
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (C-005 names the OUT items + their tracking issues #3264/#3265)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified (Assumptions section)

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows (one per #3253 item)
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification

Notes

  • Validation passed on first iteration; revised r2 after the post-spec adversarial squad folded a confirmed critical re-seam (FR-003 per-content-entry → per-include-glob, pre-exclusion), an FR-005 reframe (assert in-repo safety structure, not the unobservable required-check setting), committed-negative-test-per-gate (NFR-001), bidirectional drift (FR-001), and several MEDIUM/LOW tightenings. Re-validated: all items still pass.
  • Item priorities: FR-001/002/003 = P1 (MUST), FR-004/005/006 = P2 (SHOULD), FR-007 = P3 (COULD), matching the confirmed MoSCoW scope.
  • Out-of-scope follow-ups filed: #3264 (related_validator floor), #3265 (CI no-backstop). Cross-link #3147 (inverse of item 3) noted for plan.