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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Durable Concurrent Review-Cycle Records

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-08-23 Mission: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs)
  • ✅ 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-###, and C-### entries
  • ✅ All requirement rows include a non-empty Status value
  • ✅ Non-functional requirements include measurable thresholds
  • ✅ 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
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified

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

  • The issue and adversarial evidence establish that event-log verdict durability and evidence-record commit durability are distinct contracts.
  • Planning must preserve the authority split while ensuring successful submissions retain both halves durably.
  • The existing claimed SC-004 test is insufficient because it manually appends events under a test-owned lock; C-004 and SC-004 require production-path, mutation-sensitive replacement coverage.