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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Mission A — P0 Read/Write Consistency

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-08-13 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — file/line pointers live in the design note, not the spec
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs (operator can accept/trust/recover/re-finalize)
  • ✅ 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
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (#3307 explicitly out of scope; #3311 scoped to provenance-clobber)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows (one per defect)
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification

Notes

  • One open discovery item carried into planning (does not block spec): #3334 — trace the exact exit-4 producer on a spec-kitty upgrade re-run against a schema-less-but-3.x-history project (candidate: the re-stamp at runner.py:135 not being reached on the failure/re-run path). Captured as an edge case + FR-005/C-006, to be nailed in /spec-kitty.plan.