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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Terminus / Merge-Coord Integrity

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-09-23 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — contract-level; file:line detail lives in work/epic-5001-research/DEBRIEF.md, the plan input
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs — operator/agent honesty; data-safety
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders — the invariant is stated in plain terms
  • ✅ All mandatory sections completed

Requirement Completeness

  • ✅ No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers remain (decision verify: clean, 0 markers)
  • ✅ 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 (all Open)
  • ✅ Non-functional requirements include measurable thresholds (12/12; 0 loss; ≤15% overhead; parity)
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable (SC-001..005 all quantified)
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined (US1–US5, Given/When/Then)
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (12 in; #4990 + #4972 explicitly out)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified (Assumptions section)

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria (traced to US1–US5 scenarios)
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows (the honest terminus transaction)
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification (seam class-layout deferred to /plan)

Notes

before its owning WP can be approved (expected — this is the mission's scope).

home) is intentionally deferred to /spec-kitty.plan.

  • Every FR carries Traces #NNNN for the in-scope children; each will require an issue-matrix row
  • Architectural seam shape (single SurfaceAuthority vs write-fence + read-resolver; verifier port
  • Validation passed on iteration 1; no failing items.