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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Retrospective Learning Default-On Policy

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-05-19 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 (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

Notes

  • Brief-intake mode was used: the workspace's start-here.md handoff served as a comprehensive brief; the user confirmed the three gap-filling questions in chat (branch=main; #1137 in scope; single mission ~7 WPs) before mission create.
  • The spec retains "implementation file paths" in the Hotspot section as orienting pointers for the planning phase; these are not requirements themselves and do not violate the "no implementation details" rule applied to FRs/NFRs/SCs.
  • FR-007 distinguishes "ran, no findings" from "missing" and "failed" — this is a load-bearing testability requirement and is carried through SC-007 (docs) and FR-013 (summary surface).
  • Bulk-edit classification (FR-022) is deferred to /spec-kitty.plan time per the spec-kitty-bulk-edit-classification skill. The env-var deprecation warning copy and doc-semantics updates likely qualify and will produce an occurrence_map.yaml if so.
  • Items marked incomplete require spec updates before /spec-kitty.plan. All items currently pass.