Checklists

requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Software-Dev Mission Composition Rewrite

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-04-25 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs)
  • Note: Source paths and module names appear in Key Entities as identifiers (acceptable per template — entities are named, not implemented). FR/NFR/Constraint text stays at the architectural-contract level.
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs
  • Operator-facing scenarios drive the spec; the "user" is the operator running the slash commands.
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders
  • Architectural stakeholders are the primary audience here (per START-HERE.md). Spec stays at contract level rather than implementation detail.
  • ✅ 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-### (FR-001..011), NFR-### (NFR-001..004), C-### (C-001..008) entries
  • ✅ All requirement rows include a non-empty Status value (all "Active")
  • ✅ Non-functional requirements include measurable thresholds (NFR-001 wall-clock ±15%, NFR-002 file presence, NFR-003 named test files green, NFR-004 diff scope)
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable (SC-1 artifact equivalence, SC-2 governance scope match, SC-3 named test paths green, SC-4 named subsystem regression-free)
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic at the user-outcome level (operator runs commands, gets equivalent artifacts)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined (AS-1..6)
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified (EC-1..5)
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (Constraints C-004..008 + assumptions)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified (Dependencies + Assumptions sections)

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows (full lifecycle through composition)
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification

Notes

  • All checklist items pass on the first iteration.
  • Three explicit assumptions (A-1 tasks-mapping, A-2 tasks profile default, A-3 legacy-file disposition) are flagged for confirmation in plan review rather than blocking specify.
  • Out-of-scope guardrails (events package, libraries-vs-charter alignment) are codified in C-007 to align with the concurrent-agent boundary the user explicitly carved out.