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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Doctrine Delivery Activation Fast-Follow

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-07-29 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

internal doctrine-engine mission; DRG relations (suggests/when), the profile channel, and named forward-API symbols are the mission's domain language, not incidental tech choice. Requirements are stated as behaviours/outcomes; exact code locations are deferred to plan.*

agents; keeping reachability pins/allowlist honest.

named explicitly in Context & Framing.

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — *see Note 1: this is an
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs — delivery of authored doctrine to consuming
  • ✅ Written for stakeholders — the "user" is the consuming agent + the doctrine maintainer,
  • ✅ All mandatory sections completed

Requirement Completeness

  • ✅ No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers remain (discovery minimized per operator; brief authoritative)
  • ✅ Requirements are testable and unambiguous (each FR/story has an Independent Test)
  • ✅ Requirement types are separated (Functional / Non-Functional / Constraints)
  • ✅ IDs are unique across FR-### (12), NFR-### (6), and C-### (8)
  • ✅ All requirement rows include a non-empty Status value (all Open)
  • ✅ Non-functional requirements include measurable thresholds (0 regressions, deferred set <50, gate green, 0 unreferenced symbols)
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable (SC-001..006 each carry a verification method)
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic — see Note 1; helper-name references are domain vocabulary of the delivery engine
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined (per user story)
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified (8 listed)
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (C-006 explicit out-of-scope; separate missions named)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified (Assumptions section)

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows (P1 core walk; P1 reconciliation; P1 allowlist; P2 companions; P2 hygiene)
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification — see Note 1

Notes

engine itself. Terms like suggests edge, when clause, profile channel, reachability partition, and the named forward-API symbols are the canonical domain language of that engine (governed by the charter's DRG/doctrine ADRs), not stack/implementation choices that should be abstracted away. Exact module paths and function bodies are intentionally deferred to /spec-kitty.plan, where code grounding confirms them. All checklist items pass with this framing; the spec states WHAT delivers and WHY, not HOW to code it.

  • Note 1 — Internal-engine domain vocabulary: This mission modifies the doctrine delivery
  • All items pass. Ready for /spec-kitty.plan.