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requirements.md
Specification Quality Checklist: Unify expected-artifacts.yaml Loading + Close Org-Tier Fail-Loud Gap
Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-08-31 Feature: spec.md
Content Quality
- ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — surfaces named are the domain seam under change (unavoidable for a refactor mission), not tech-stack choices
- ✅ Focused on user value and business needs (operators get truthful errors; maintainers get one authority)
- ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders where possible (intent-first user stories)
- ✅ 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 (outcome-framed)
- ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
- ✅ Edge cases are identified
- ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (Non-Goals section)
- ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified
Feature Readiness
- ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria (via user-story scenarios)
- ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows (fail-loud, unify, gate)
- ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
- ✅ No implementation details leak into specification beyond the named refactor seam
Notes
references the specific load-seam surfaces under change because the mission's value IS their consolidation. This is intentional and not an implementation leak.
built-in-tier YAML fix already shipped (1763bf2ae3).
- This is a brownfield refactor + behavioral-fix mission; requirement wording
- Red-first target (C-004): a broken ORG manifest for a custom family — the