Checklists

requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Consolidate git merge-base/diff idiom

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-07-09 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — note: this is an internal refactor mission, so specific module/function names are the subject matter, not leaked implementation of a user feature
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs (contributor-facing: one canonical seam, no drift)
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders (purpose TL;DR is stakeholder-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
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic — scoped as codebase-observable measures (grep, suite-green), appropriate for a refactor mission
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined (5 scenarios, one per site + helper)
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified (no merge-base, pathspec, branch-vs-HEAD diff target, non-ASCII, subprocess patching)
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (4 sites + helper + secondary tidy; explicit Out of Scope)
  • ✅ 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 beyond the named consolidation targets

Notes

  • Behaviour-preserving refactor; the load-bearing invariant is NFR-001 (zero expected-value assertion edits).
  • FR-007 is explicitly secondary and may be deferred to a follow-up WP without blocking FR-001–FR-006.
  • All items pass — ready for /spec-kitty.plan.