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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Silent-Write Hardening Residuals

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-09-23 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs)
  • Note: code locations appear in Context as provenance/grounding for a brownfield hardening mission; requirements themselves are behavior-stated.
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs (operator/maintainer of the CLI)
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders (purpose_tldr + Context lead with impact)
  • ✅ 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 (0 silent drops, 1 accessor, 0 regressions)
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic (outcome-stated)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (C-001/C-002/C-003 fence the blast radius)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified (C-004 no deps; operator decision recorded)

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows (one per finding, P1/P2/P3)
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into requirement/success rows

Notes

  • Finding A rollout posture resolved by operator Decision Moment DM-01M37QQ62T11G9JPZQJE2GYSYH: ship the full inversion this mission, gated by an ADR (FR-003).
  • Closes #4993 (epic #2720); provenance = PR #4938 landing-pass squad; grounding = kitty-specs/silent-destructive-write-hardening-01M355VK/research.md.