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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Partition-Aware Implement-Claim Precondition

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-07-14 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) <!-- code loci named as scope anchors for a dev-tooling bug, not as prescribed implementation; behavior stated in FRs -->
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders <!-- Purpose section is stakeholder-legible; technical detail confined to Background/Domain -->
  • ✅ 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 (user/outcome focused)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified

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

recorded as scope anchors to bound the change and protect boundary guards, not as prescribed implementation. The FRs state behavior/outcomes.

prevent scope creep during plan/tasks.

  • This is a bug-fix mission in developer-facing tooling; code loci (file:line) are
  • Scope fences (C-003 out-of-scope #2602; C-004 deferred #2160) are explicit to