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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Mission Completion Terminal State

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-08-27 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — references are to the product's own user-facing commands (accept, merge, tasks), which are the domain, not internal modules
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders (operator-facing)
  • ✅ 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 (NFR-001 suite-green; NFR-002 0 behavior change; NFR-003 schema-verifiable field)
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic (expressed as operator outcomes)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (C-003 defers the completion-contract redesign to #3550)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows (US1 accept-side, US2 authoring-side)
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification

Notes

debugger, reviewer, planner), all of which returned CHANGES REQUESTED. Convergent, evidence-grounded findings folded into the spec; audit trail in ../research/post-spec-squad-findings.md.

CLI auto-synthesizes a non-empty reason, so "non-empty" was fakeable — F1 BLOCKER); FR-005 reframed to an acceptable-ending predicate for accept/merge, not a shared terminal-lane set (F2); FR-004 re-expressed at work-package granularity (F4); FR-009 + SC-005 added to close the dependency-on-canceled strand that was previously parked (F5); SC-003 downgraded to a fixed labeled-corpus/precision target (F6); NFR-001 pins concrete suites + a gate-integrity regression (F7); C-003 marks #3590 partially addressed; C-005 records the #3432/#2745 boundary.

deliberately left as plan-phase decisions (mechanism), not spec-level ambiguities — the requirements and their measurable outcomes are pinned.

  • Revised 2026-08-28 after a four-lens post-spec adversarial squad (architect,
  • Material changes from the squad: provenance redefined as operator-authored (the
  • Re-validated in one pass after revision; all items below green.
  • Detection-signal definition for FR-007 and the provenance-read seam (C-002) are