# Specification Quality Checklist: Decision Register & Approval Workflow v1

**Purpose**: Validate specification completeness and repo fit before implementation  
**Created**: 2026-05-02  
**Feature**: [spec.md](../spec.md)

## Content Quality

- [x] The spec stays on one bounded manual-promotion follow-up over current `FindingException` and `FindingExceptionDecision` truth instead of inventing a second decision domain.
- [x] The spec is product- and behavior-oriented and does not read like a low-level implementation diff.
- [x] The spec explicitly names the repo-real foundations it builds on: accepted-risk lifecycle, append-only decision history, current exception-detail approval actions, and the adjacent decision-home specs.
- [x] Mandatory repo sections for scope, RBAC, disclosure, testing, proportionality, and candidate rationale are completed.

## Requirement Completeness

- [x] No `[NEEDS CLARIFICATION]` markers remain.
- [x] Requirements are testable and bounded to current exception and accepted-risk decision truth only.
- [x] The package distinguishes default-unfiltered `403` access denial from user-applied filtered zero-result empty states.
- [x] The package explicitly carries the tenant-prefilter reset rule: clearing the tenant filter returns the page to the workspace-wide open register.
- [x] The spec explains what remains in scope versus what is intentionally deferred.
- [x] Acceptance scenarios cover register visibility, detail launch continuity, and bounded decision-history behavior.
- [x] Recently closed rows explicitly require closure reason in both the formal requirements and implementation tasks.
- [x] Edge cases cover hidden tenants, missing proof links, the 30-calendar-day recently-closed boundary, and missing owner context.

## Candidate Selection Gate

- [x] The selected candidate exists in `docs/product/spec-candidates.md` and `docs/product/roadmap.md`.
- [x] The active queue is explicitly empty, so this package records itself as a deliberate manual promotion rather than an automatic next-best-prep target.
- [x] No existing spec package already covers this bounded decision-register slice; related specs `154`, `250`, and `257` are treated as context only.
- [x] The chosen slice is smaller and more repo-ready than the deferred alternatives because the repo already contains append-only decision persistence and the existing detail workflow.

## Feature Readiness

- [x] The package reuses current `finding_exception_decisions` truth and current exception detail actions instead of introducing a new decision table or approval engine.
- [x] The spec explicitly keeps the register read-only and detail-owned for mutations.
- [x] The spec forbids new panel, provider, global-search, asset, queue, and persistence changes.
- [x] The plan and tasks keep any related review or run link optional and derived from existing proof only.
- [x] The register is explicitly planned as a Filament-native table or list surface, and later implementation review must use `docs/product/standards/list-surface-review-checklist.md`.
- [x] Decision-surface proof stays explicit: one dominant next action, diagnostics-secondary treatment, and no duplicate visible decision summary between register and detail.

## Test Governance

- [x] Planned proof stays bounded to focused `Unit` plus `Feature` families with one later manual smoke path.
- [x] No new heavy-governance or dedicated browser family is introduced.
- [x] Runtime proof commands stay consistent across spec, plan, and tasks, including `FindingExceptionDecisionRegisterBoundariesTest`, while Pint remains standard implementation hygiene.

## Notes

- Reviewed against `docs/product/spec-candidates.md`, `docs/product/roadmap.md`, `docs/product/implementation-ledger.md`, `specs/154-finding-risk-acceptance/spec.md`, `specs/250-decision-governance-inbox/spec.md`, `specs/257-governance-decision-convergence/spec.md`, current finding-exception models and services under `apps/platform`, and `.specify/memory/constitution.md` on 2026-05-02.
- No application implementation was performed while preparing this package.

## Review Outcome

- **Outcome class**: `acceptable-special-case`
- **Outcome**: `keep`
- **Reason**: The selected slice is an explicit manual promotion, but it stays on repo-real exception-decision truth, narrows the broader candidate to one bounded register, and keeps all mutations on the current action-owning detail surface.
- **Workflow result**: Ready for implementation.