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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Frozen lanes for started work packages

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-10-04 Mission: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs). The spec names the CLI command, the error code and the lane manifest, which are part of the user-facing contract. Internal code structure appears only in constraint C-002, as a boundary rule.
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders (operators of Spec Kitty missions)
  • ✅ 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
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (Out of Scope section; #3432 deferred by decision 01M444ZPVGXPXZY365PGJ7K68P)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified

Mission Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows (preserve, refuse, regroup-unstarted)
  • ✅ Mission meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification

Notes

  • Validation pass 1: all items pass.