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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Rename Ceremony Commit to Status Commit

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-05-28 Feature: spec.md Source: GitHub Issue #1325

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

Bulk-Edit Classification

  • ✅ Mission flagged as bulk edit (meta.json → change_mode: bulk_edit)
  • ✅ Spec calls out the occurrence_map.yaml artifact required at plan phase (FR-011, C-005)
  • ✅ Scope boundary (active source only; kitty-specs/ excluded) explicit (C-001, C-002, C-003)

Notes

proposed config flag) is intentionally deferred to plan phase because it depends on a fresh grep of the live codebase — recorded as Assumption #2 and FR-009, not as a [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] marker.

  • Spec passes all checklist items on first pass. No iteration required.
  • The single deferred technical decision (hard-rename vs. compat-alias for the