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requirements.md
Specification Quality Checklist: Legacy→Journal Capture Cutover
Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-08-15 Feature: spec.md
Content Quality
- ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — bug-fix mission necessarily names affected capability surfaces (layout mode, capture stores) but avoids code/framework specifics
- ✅ Focused on user value and business needs
- ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders
- ✅ 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 — outcome-framed (capture %, refusal count, event-count preservation); CI-job name retained as the one verifiable release gate
- ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
- ✅ Edge cases are identified
- ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (explicit Out of Scope: #2750, emitter contract)
- ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified (C-001 #3391-first; Assumptions section)
Feature Readiness
- ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
- ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows (P1 capture + auth, P2 dedup/stranded/cutover/tests)
- ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
- ✅ No implementation details leak into specification (beyond unavoidable capability naming)
Notes
squad (root-cause + related-bugs + PR-conflict scans) and three confirmed scope decisions (fold #3476/#3278/#2846; land #3391 first; auto-cutover legacy-with-data).
- Items marked incomplete require spec updates before
/spec-kitty.plan. - All items pass on first authoring iteration; spec derived from a prior research