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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Runtime-State Corpus Cutover

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-07-20 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

code surfaces are the domain objects (contract seams), not incidental tech choices, and are required to make requirements testable*

Context section frames the why in stakeholder terms*

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — *migration infra mission; named
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs — maintainer/operator safety + the #2684 outcome
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders — *as far as an infra-migration mission allows; the
  • ✅ All mandatory sections completed

Requirement Completeness

writes, empty tolerated set, grep=0); the named surfaces are the acceptance targets*

  • ✅ 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 — *outcome-framed (parity=0 mismatches, 0-byte
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded — IC-08 optional; lane-mirror out of scope; not a bulk edit
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified

Feature Readiness

must name to be testable

  • ✅ 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 beyond the contract seams the requirements

Notes

requirements necessarily name the contract seams (the phase-1 predicate, the backfill/verify library, the #2093 invariant, the two bypass readers) because those seams are the acceptance surface. This is a deliberate, scoped exception to "no implementation details" — the alternative (paraphrasing the seams) would make the requirements untestable.

  • This is a staged production-default migration mission; unlike a greenfield feature spec, its
  • IC-08 (FR-011) is explicitly optional and does not gate Definition of Done.
  • Items marked incomplete require spec updates before /spec-kitty.plan. All items pass.