Checklists

requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Single Mission-Surface Resolver

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before /spec-kitty.plan Created: 2026-06-19 Mission: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details that overconstrain (seam names cited as intent, not prescription)
  • ✅ Focused on operability value (commands agree on the authoritative surface)
  • ✅ Written for stakeholders (the desync problem + the consolidation goal)
  • ✅ All mandatory sections completed

Requirement Completeness

  • ✅ No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers remain (Q1 hard-fail + Q2 all-6 resolved at discovery)
  • ✅ Requirements are testable and unambiguous
  • ✅ Requirement types separated (Functional / Non-Functional / Constraints)
  • ✅ IDs unique across FR/NFR/C/SC
  • ✅ All requirement rows have a Status
  • ✅ NFRs include measurable thresholds (input-class coverage, ruff/mypy 0, 100% existing suites)
  • ✅ Success criteria measurable + technology-agnostic-where-possible
  • ✅ Acceptance scenarios defined (primary + coord-empty + ambiguous-mid8 + bypass)
  • ✅ Edge cases identified (create→first-write window vs coord-empty)
  • ✅ Scope bounded (selection only; validation out of scope)
  • ✅ Dependencies/assumptions identified

Mission Readiness

  • ✅ All FRs have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows + the decided hard-fail policy
  • ✅ Mission meets measurable outcomes in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation detail leaks beyond intent-level seam citations

Notes

  • Decisions locked at discovery: Q1→B coord-empty hard-fail (STATUS_READ_PATH_NOT_FOUND message names both recovery paths: collapse/flatten OR recreate/populate the coord branch); Q2→A all 6 increments in one mission (the safety net — audit + guard + equivalence test — de-risks the collapse within the same mission).
  • Issue matrix is a seed; the adjacent-issues + boyscout-tidy-first squads (post-spec) will expand foldable scope before plan.
  • Reuses 01KVFTFV scaffolding (audit AST walker + load-bearing guard) per C-001.