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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Docs lint: codespell and changelog Unreleased guard

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-09-30 Mission: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs). The one tool constraint (codespell) is operator-fixed and isolated in C-001.
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders
  • ✅ 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-###, C-### and SC-### entries, and match the requirement-ID grammar
  • ✅ All requirement rows include a non-empty Status value
  • ✅ Non-functional requirements include measurable thresholds
  • ✅ Every FR row and success criterion carries a delivery label and no-op mark
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic (no implementation details)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (C-004, C-007)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified (stacked on PR #5420)

Mission Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows
  • ✅ Mission meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification

Notes

  • FR-009 and C-003 leave the exact Before/After calibration (the Why: variant for Breaking, headline-only entries, the instructional Upgrade Notes exemption) to plan, where it is measured against the live PR #5420 text.