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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Safe Sync Daemon Orphan Cleanup

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-06-30 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

infrastructure reliability mission whose contract is inherently expressed in operational terms — reserved port ranges ([9400, 9450), [9237, 9337)), daemon families, cleanup classes, and the DaemonIntent.LOCAL_ONLY startup behavior. These are domain/contract vocabulary (the unit of acceptance in source issue #2261), not gratuitous implementation prescription. The spec deliberately does not prescribe internal module/function structure, leaving the "how" to the plan phase. The relevant stakeholder is an operator/maintainer, for whom the Purpose, Success Criteria, and acceptance scenarios are written in outcome terms (no orphan accumulation, no wrongful kills, two-command remediation).

  • Altitude note (Content Quality / "no implementation details"): This is an
  • All checklist items pass; specification is ready for /spec-kitty.plan.