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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Schema-3 upgrade commits only what it changed

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-10-06 Mission: 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-###, C-### and SC-### entries, and match the requirement-ID grammar
  • ✅ All requirement rows include a non-empty Status value
  • ✅ Non-functional requirements include measurable thresholds
  • ✅ Every FR row and success criterion carries a delivery label and no-op mark
  • ✅ 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

Mission Readiness

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

Notes

  • Validation pass 1 (2026-10-07): all items pass. The spec names git add -A, --no-verify and the upgrade command because they are the user-visible surface of the defect; the fix shape lives in the plan.
  • Validation pass 2 (2026-10-07, scope widened per the maintainer): US4-US8, FR-009..FR-018, C-005, SC-005/006 added; all items still pass.
  • Validation pass 3 (2026-10-07, after the post-spec review and the three-lens validation squad): FR-019..FR-023, US2b/US2c, SC-007 added; rule wording corrected; gate starts empty with a canonical owner; claim/bake/metadata/rollback/safe-commit rows tightened; all items pass except the deferred PR-split marker.