Checklists

requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Mission-Type Single-Source + Gate Wiring

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-07-15 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details leak into user-facing intent (WHAT/WHY drives the spec; file paths appear only as anchors in Key Entities/Requirements, which is appropriate for developer-infrastructure work)
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs (maintainer/agent/CI outcomes)
  • ✅ Written for the relevant stakeholders (maintainers)
  • ✅ All mandatory sections completed

Requirement Completeness

  • ✅ No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers remain (all 4 scope forks resolved by operator)
  • ✅ 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)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined (4 scenarios + edge cases)
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified (empty-vs-malformed index, __all__/dead-symbol coupling, import-time I/O)
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (explicit Out of Scope section with tracked follow-ups)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria (mapped to SC-001..006 and scenarios)
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows (one per issue)
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into the specification beyond necessary code-surface anchors

Notes

intentional anchors, not premature implementation choices — the WHAT is "single source of truth" and "fail loud", the HOW (accessor shape, exception class) is left to plan/implement.

correctness-bearing, not stylistic.

  • This is a developer-infrastructure mission; code-surface references (module/function names) are
  • Delivery order and the two hard couplings (C-002, C-003) are pinned as constraints because they are