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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Unify charter activation surfaces

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-07-10 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — charter/doctrine surfaces are the subject matter (config/answers/references/graph), stated as WHAT-level authority/derivation, not HOW
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs (maintainer: activation is coherent; agents: reference set resolves)
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders (purpose TL;DR is legible)
  • ✅ All mandatory sections completed

Requirement Completeness

  • ✅ No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers remain (the one architectural decision resolved via DM 01KX5SK7)
  • ✅ 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 (0 danglers, fail-closed guard, 0 dropped on migration)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined (5 scenarios + edge cases)
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified (interview→config, first-run, graph freshness, shared-reference deactivate)
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (explicit Out of Scope: A/B/C children, mission-type, cascade)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows (activate/deactivate/divergence/migration)
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification beyond the named surfaces

Notes

  • The load-bearing decision (config = single authority) is on record (DM 01KX5SK7).
  • FR-007 (interview → config promotion) is flagged in Assumptions as splittable to a follow-up if the interview rewrite proves large, without blocking FR-001–FR-005.
  • All items pass — ready for /spec-kitty.plan.