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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Python interpreter surface honesty

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-09-27 Mission: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — the subject is Python interpreter behaviour itself, so stdlib names appear as the domain, not as design
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders (Intent Summary and stories lead)
  • ✅ All mandatory sections completed

Requirement Completeness

  • ✅ No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers remain (the 3.14 fork is an open Decision Moment with a recorded default, not a marker)
  • ✅ 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
  • ✅ Every FR row and success criterion carries a delivery label and no-op mark
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic where the domain allows
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (C-001, C-002)

Mission Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows
  • ✅ Reproduction evidence recorded