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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Reject Cyclic Lane Graphs

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-08-23 Mission: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, or code structure)
  • ✅ Focused on operator value and trustworthy workflow outcomes
  • ✅ Written for Spec Kitty maintainers, operators, and automation authors
  • ✅ 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

Mission Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover the primary flow and recovery information
  • ✅ Mission meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation architecture leaks into the specification

Notes

  • Confirmed decision: cyclic results fail before lanes.json persistence and preserve any existing valid lanes.json.
  • Confirmed intent: finalization must identify the cycle and never report success for an unexecutable graph.
  • Post-spec adversarial review folded canonical command/mode boundaries, the exact structured failure contract, deterministic normalization, and the single post-collapse acceptance authority into the spec.
  • Full-command rollback was deliberately excluded: the confirmed integrity boundary is creation or replacement of lanes.json, not earlier non-lane finalization effects.
  • SPDD/REASONS activation check returned inactive for this checkout, so no advisory canvas was created.