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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Read-Side Placement-Seam Migration

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before planning Created: 2026-07-27 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
  • ✅ 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

the shared scanner) are carried in Domain Language; requirements stay at the outcome/invariant level.

diagnostic/audit paths are classified must-stay-lenient — is FR-001/FR-004 + NFR-001, not left implicit.

  • Canonical machinery names (PlacementSeam.read_dir, CoordinationBranchDeleted,
  • The load-bearing subtlety — lenient→fail-loud is a per-site behavior change, so