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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Mission-Type Creatability via Rich Step Model

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-07-17 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details that don't belong (this is a doctrine/code mission; code surfaces are cited deliberately as anchors, symbol-canonical)
  • ✅ Focused on the outcome (creatable types, one authority) and its value
  • ✅ Written so a maintainer/contributor stakeholder can follow the intent
  • ✅ All mandatory sections completed

Requirement Completeness

  • ✅ No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers remain (Q1 resolved by code trace)
  • ✅ Requirements are testable and unambiguous (FR-001 atomic-edit wording; NFR-002 N-formula; NFR-003 call-count)
  • ✅ Requirement types are separated (Functional / Non-Functional / Constraints)
  • ✅ IDs are unique across FR-###, NFR-###, C-### entries
  • ✅ All requirement rows include a non-empty Status value
  • ✅ Non-functional requirements include measurable thresholds (NFR-002 counts; NFR-003 one-walk; NFR-006 uniqueness)
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable and map to FRs (SC-001..005 each cite FRs)
  • ✅ Success criteria are outcome-focused
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined (incl. US2.2 loud-fail, US3.3 URN-override)
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (in-scope vs #2751 / prior deferrals)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified (C-009 atomicity, C-010 Q1-gate, C-011 emptiness-owner, C-012 ordering)

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows + frozen invariants
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation detail leaks that obscure the intent

Spec-Review Squad Sign-off (2026-07-17)

  • reviewer-renata (quality/testability): 3 MUST-FIX cleared (FR-001 atomic wording, NFR-002 N-formula, NFR-003 call-count) + SHOULD-FIX folded (FR-011 reground, C-004 URN-override scenario, US1.4 aggregate wording, tidy-first as C-009/C-012).
  • architect-alphonso (technical soundness): plan-ready; MUST-FIX cleared (NFR-002 N-derived-post-authoring, FR-009 structured-field rationale) + flags folded (cache location, FR-011 upstream ordering, URN two-namespace note, FR-010 bound, arch-marker sweep).
  • paula-patterns (fences/boundaries): MUST-FIX cleared (C-002 reworded to assertable scalar-reference fence + fixed coordinates, C-009 atomicity) + flags folded (F1 action_sequence-overlay-stays, NFR-006 uniqueness guard, C-010 Q1-gate, C-011 emptiness-owner, C-012 ordering).

Notes

  • File:line anchors are indicative; symbol names are canonical (line numbers rot).
  • Q1 resolved: creation requests literal artifact_kind="spec", /plan-setup requests "plan" — generic across all types; each type must author steps with those exact artifact_keys.
  • Open item deferred to /plan (not blocking): the exact host-step + template_file names per type (C-003), and whether the existing software-dev-shaped files under research/templates/ / documentation/templates/ are renamed or replaced.