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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Verdict-Seam Write-Side Unification

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-08-05 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs) (seam/artifact names are the domain vocabulary of this infra mission, not stack choices)
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs (single verdict authority; no lost audit trail)
  • ✅ Written for stakeholders (maintainer/operator/reviewer actors; behavioural outcomes)
  • ✅ 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 (all Open)
  • ✅ Non-functional requirements include measurable thresholds (2s budget; ≥1 poison + ≥1 real test; zero lint/type)
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic where the domain allows (outcome-framed: one authority, no lost record, no placeholder reset)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined (Given/When/Then per story)
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded (C-006 names both out-of-scope bugs)
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified (predecessor SC-006/SC-011/C-005 pins; #2093 slice; research doc)

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows (5 prioritized, independently testable stories)
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification beyond the necessary domain vocabulary

Notes

partial order exists, so the write default + safety-critical reader flip in one commit.

behavioural choice (single authority + NFR-001), not a leaked implementation detail.

than authoring new repros for those two.

  • The atomicity requirement (FR-001) is the load-bearing constraint proven by research: no safe
  • SC-004 durability design is fixed by operator decision D2 (event-log route), which is a
  • Two carry-reds already have red-first pins (predecessor C-005); this spec greens them rather