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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: 3.2.0 Release Blocker Cleanup

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-05-05 Feature: 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
  • ✅ 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

Feature Readiness

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

Notes

  • All 19 functional requirements confirmed from a comprehensive mission brief and explicitly validated by the user.
  • Decision verify returned {"status": "clean"} — no deferred decisions or NEEDS CLARIFICATION markers.
  • NFR-003 references a 5 ms latency threshold for sync fast-path overhead; this is a developer-tool internal metric appropriate for this CLI-facing spec.
  • SC 3 and SC 5 were revised after initial draft to remove tool-specific test runner references (uv run pytest) in favor of behavioral language.
  • Spec is ready for /spec-kitty.plan.