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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Refactor-Stable Gate Substrate

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-07-03 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ Implementation details limited to the refactor's own domain objects (gate keys, seeds, markers — the subject matter IS the test substrate)
  • ✅ Focused on maintainer value (gate churn elimination) and governance value (doctrine codified)
  • ✅ Written to be legible to non-implementing stakeholders (context + user stories + glossary entities)
  • ✅ All mandatory sections completed

Requirement Completeness

  • ✅ No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers (comprehensive census + operator-approved proposal; the one open scope question — Family E — is RULED IN with a demotion clause in FR-005)
  • ✅ Requirements testable and unambiguous (drift-immunity/non-vacuity theater pairs; exact node counts; byte-green freshness gates)
  • ✅ Requirement types separated; IDs unique (FR-001..009, NFR-001..004, C-001..005); statuses populated
  • ✅ NFRs carry measurable thresholds (0 gate failures on synthetic drift; 0 findings; two consecutive clean runs; zero production-path changes)
  • ✅ Success criteria measurable (SC-001..006) and technology-agnostic to the degree the subject allows
  • ✅ Acceptance scenarios defined (4 stories, 9 scenarios); edge cases identified (5)
  • ✅ Scope bounded (Non-Goals: drain remainder, uv-tool fix, perf case, unshim wave, #2309)
  • ✅ Dependencies/assumptions identified (base = degod-follow-ups tip; #2308 landing; census currency re-check at implement)

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ Every FR maps to a user-story scenario and/or SC
  • ✅ User scenarios cover the primary flows (conversion, audit redesign, doctrine, un-quarantine)
  • ✅ Measurable outcomes defined
  • ✅ No implementation leakage beyond the substrate's own domain

Notes

2026-07-03 census; zero decision-moment deferrals needed.

  • Discovery: brief-intake from the operator-approved proposal ("agreed. go") + the
  • Bulk-edit check: negative (single-family schema conversion; no cross-file renames).