Checklists

requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Planning-artifact WPs Own kitty-specs Paths

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-08-18 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs)
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs
  • ✅ 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 (no implementation details)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified

Feature Readiness

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

Notes

(planning_artifact, code_change, kitty-specs/, finalize-tasks, ownership manifest, planning lane) appears in requirements. These are domain terms from the glossary, not implementation choices (no languages/frameworks/APIs are prescribed).

correct verifiable outcome for a fix whose success is "existing behavior preserved".

markers were required (scope and direction were confirmed with the operator).

  • This is a developer-tooling reconciliation, so canonical domain vocabulary
  • NFR-001 names concrete regression suites as its measurable threshold; this is the
  • Requirement Status values are Draft pending plan/tasks; all rows are non-empty.
  • All checklist items pass on the first validation pass; no [NEEDS CLARIFICATION]