Checklists

requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Repo-relative retrospective record_path

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-10-12 Mission: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — bar the unavoidable code-surface citation of the defect site, which the mission requires
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs (portable, leak-free tracked history)
  • ✅ 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/C/SC and match the grammar
  • ✅ All requirement rows include a non-empty Status value
  • ✅ Non-functional requirements include measurable thresholds
  • ✅ Every FR row and success criterion carries a delivery label and no-op mark
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified (username-bearing root, reader round-trip)
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (forward-only; single field; out-of-scope listed)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified

Mission Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows
  • ✅ Mission meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification beyond the required defect-site citation

Notes

  • All items pass. Ready for /spec-kitty.plan.