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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Observable Pre-Review Gate

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

Content Quality

  • ✅ Focuses on observable WHAT/WHY outcomes without prescribing architecture
  • ✅ Names the exact command, transition, and human/JSON modes in scope
  • ✅ Distinguishes newly required behavior from facets already delivered on the planning base
  • ✅ Uses canonical Mission terminology

Requirement Completeness

  • ✅ No unresolved clarification markers remain
  • ✅ Functional, non-functional, constraint, and success-criterion IDs are unique
  • ✅ Every requirement row has a non-empty status
  • ✅ Human-mode liveness thresholds are measurable
  • ✅ JSON-mode integrity is measurable and explicitly local to the exact entry point
  • ✅ Timeout and catchable-cancellation cleanliness enumerate non-fakeable observable residues
  • ✅ SIGKILL is bounded to recovery/reconciliation rather than an impossible in-process rollback promise
  • ✅ Sync-disable is regression-only and cannot manufacture a passing gate verdict
  • ✅ Red-first proof is required on the planning base in a separate pre-implementation commit
  • ✅ #2549, #2570, and #2626 carry no claimed delivery requirement or success criterion

Mission Readiness

  • ✅ The sole claimed residual issue is #2573's default synchronous/non-streaming gate path
  • ✅ The delivered 35f3a2206 facets are protected but not re-scoped
  • ✅ Scenarios identify actor, trigger, outcome, and exception
  • ✅ Issue dispositions and planning-base evidence are recorded
  • ✅ Scope excludes universal output contracts, any-checkout guarantees, and resolver redesign
  • ✅ Acceptance outcomes can fail for the intended defect and cannot pass by checking only an initial notice

Notes

  • Revised after the convergent post-spec squad and code-truth audit.
  • This checklist records specification quality only. It is not Definition-of-Done evidence and does not attest implementation correctness.
  • Ready for renewed post-spec review before planning.