Checklists
requirements.md
Specification Quality Checklist: Single-branch topology honesty and destroyed-lane tip guard
Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-09-28 Mission: 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
- ✅ Every FR row and success criterion carries a delivery label and no-op mark
- ✅ 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
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
Notes
- This is an internal-tooling mission. Its "users" are operators driving the CLI, so CLI verbs and file names such as
implement,meta.jsonand.worktrees/are domain vocabulary, not implementation leakage. The Assumptions section records the design readings the decision record left open. - The spec was authored in brief-intake mode from the binding operator decision on #5100 (comment 5870360497).