Checklists

requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Gate-Artifact Merge Driver Unit Gate

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-08-10 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — reconciler names are the WHAT (the surface under test), not a HOW prescription
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs (regression coverage for the merge invariant)
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders (purpose_tldr/context legible)
  • ✅ 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 (NFR-003 < 5 s; NFR-001 no-I/O binary; NFR-002 negative-control-per-assertion)
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic (outcome-framed: gap closed, non-vacuity, pending admitted)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified (conflict marker, anti-vacuity, pending-admissible)
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (C-001/C-002/C-003 name the out-of-scope surfaces)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified (reconciler surface from #3076; marker + #3231 excluded)

Feature Readiness

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

Notes

  • All items pass. Spec is ready for /spec-kitty.plan.
  • Narrow, well-researched scope (scoping brief: scratchpad 3232-scoping-brief.md).