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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: User-content preservation for mutating flows

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-09-22 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) — file/line cause references are traceability, not prescribed implementation; the "how" is deferred to /plan
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs (operator not fought by the tool)
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders (user stories are operator-facing)
  • ✅ 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
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (C-006 excludes #4901, #644)
  • ✅ 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

overwrite contract = hybrid per-flow (DM 01M354BCPEAH6CPXGSHMY0B9XJ); PR shaping = one PR for all 7 (DM 01M354BMVXECKWX0M1FT3XE27P).

current main; none superseded by the #4859/#4861/#4862 guard mission.

  • Two genuine product decisions were resolved with the operator via Decision Moments:
  • Grounding squad (paula-patterns + analyst-annie, opus) confirmed all 7 defects real on