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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Next-Command Latency — Durable Fix + Perf-Gate Migration

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-08-28 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — file/seam names cited are the brownfield problem locus (domain), not a prescribed solution
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs (developer inner-loop speed, contributor CI reliability, maintainer regression guard)
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders — Intent Summary leads in plain language
  • ✅ 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 (median ≤ 0.745s; 100% no-stale; zero blocking latency jobs; byte-identical output)
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic (user/CI outcomes, not internals)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (C-004: cache the existing read path, no step-authority redesign)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified (Intent Summary assumptions)

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows (durable fix, unblock PRs, statistical guard)
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification

Notes

  • Items marked incomplete require spec updates before /spec-kitty.plan
  • NFR-001's "best-achievable" fallback is intentionally deferred to plan-time profiling evidence, not left as an open clarification — the target (≤0.745s) is concrete and the fallback is gated on evidence.