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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Opt-in SPDD and REASONS Canvas Doctrine Pack

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-04-29 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — references to YAML and skill files describe artifact identities, not implementation choices
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders (with mission-author audience in mind)
  • ✅ 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 (proposed)
  • ✅ Non-functional requirements include measurable thresholds
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined (primary + secondary + edge cases + walkthrough)
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified (mid-mission activation, drift, trivial missions, unselected charter)
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (Out of Scope section enumerates exclusions)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows (active project + inactive project)
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification

Notes

All items pass. Spec is ready for /spec-kitty.plan.

The brief in .kittify/mission-brief.md (start-here.md) was comprehensive enough to extract requirements directly without a full discovery interview.