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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Unblock Sync Identity-Boundary Canary

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-05-19 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs)
  • Note: file paths and module names are intentionally referenced because they are the boundary contract the fixes must respect (per Constraints C-003, C-004). Stakeholders ratifying scope need to know which surfaces are in vs. out.
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders
  • Note: the user value is "the canary works as a release gate again"; the spec leads with that and treats the file paths as scope guardrails, not implementation guidance.
  • ✅ 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 beyond the documented scope-guardrail file references

Notes

  • All five interview decisions are resolved in decisions/index.json (spec_kitty_only_three_bugs, scope_audit_by_row_family, subcommand_plus_hints, scenarios_1_2_4_green, print_paths_outside_table).
  • Cross-repo #43 is documented as out of scope (C-001) and explicitly excluded from the done criterion (C-002, NFR-003, Success Criterion 4).
  • Each functional fix is paired with a regression-test requirement (FR-009).
  • Bulk-Edit Gate self-check: this mission is not a bulk edit. None of the fixes performs the same rename across many files. #1124's four hint updates live in one file (sync/preflight.py) and are explicitly scoped by line. No change_mode: bulk_edit flag is needed.