Checklists

requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Single-Authority Resolution Parity

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-08-19 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — normative FR/NFR/C are behavioral; file/function seams are isolated in a clearly-marked non-normative Technical Context section
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs — operator trust that authored doctrine takes effect
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders — operator/maintainer framing with plain-language overview
  • ✅ All mandatory sections completed

Requirement Completeness

  • ✅ No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers remain — the three open scope decisions were resolved with the operator
  • ✅ 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 (100% parity; 71%→0%; falsifiable both directions)
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic — outcomes framed as operator-observable
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (C-004 names the out-of-scope siblings)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows (nested discovery, loader/resolver parity, kind vocabulary)
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into normative specification

Notes

  • All items pass. The three operator decisions (unconditional recursion; preserve the 10-kind map; widen the selector) are encoded as C-001, C-003, and FR-006 respectively.
  • Ready for /spec-kitty.plan.