Checklists

requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: DRG Reachability Metric & Orphan Wiring

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-08-11 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — DRG/edge/reachability are domain terms, not tech stack; no code structure prescribed
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs (maintainer/agent/future-mission value)
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders — domain-literate but not code-level
  • ✅ 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 (Open)
  • ✅ Non-functional requirements include measurable thresholds (100% / zero / identical-set / ratchet direction)
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified (incidence-vs-reachability, inert edges, cascade moves, circular pairs, depth)
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (C-004 excludes B2)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified (A1/#3301 prior art; research findings)

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows (metric / wiring / curation)
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification

Notes

are canonical domain entities, not implementation leakage.

genuine edges only, no metric-gaming, no valid-artifact deletion.

  • The spec is domain-specific to the Doctrine Reference Graph by necessity; "DRG node/edge/channel"
  • The binding curation policy (D-C2 / C-003 → C-001/C-003 here) is the load-bearing constraint:
  • All items pass; ready for /spec-kitty.plan.