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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Issue-Matrix Partition Read Integrity & Merge Verdict-Terminality

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-09-27 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — file/function-level wiring deferred to plan.md; spec uses domain terms (partition, coordination branch, verdict) only
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs (trustworthy mission ledger)
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders (reviewer/merge/operator scenarios)
  • ✅ 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 (Open)
  • ✅ Non-functional requirements include measurable thresholds (count = 0, 100%, < 2s)
  • ✅ 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 (Given/When/Then per user story)
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified (deleted vs unmaterialized, husk reads, probe failure, empty set, flat unchanged)
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (partition resolution + verdict-terminality; nightlies excluded)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows (review read, merge gate, merge terminality, post-consolidation read)
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification

Notes

same-fixture positive control (coord vs flat; in-mission vs terminal); FR-008 is a self-mutating architectural guard per DIRECTIVE_043.

  • Non-vacuity: every FR is no-op-passable = no, each refusal/absence assertion paired with a
  • All items pass on first validation pass.