# Specification Quality Checklist: 097 Settings Foundation

**Purpose**: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning
**Created**: 2026-02-15
**Feature**: [specs/097-settings-foundation/spec.md](specs/097-settings-foundation/spec.md)

## Content Quality

- [x] No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs)
- [x] Focused on user value and business needs
- [x] Written for non-technical stakeholders
- [x] All mandatory sections completed

## Requirement Completeness

- [x] No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers remain
- [x] Requirements are testable and unambiguous
- [x] Success criteria are measurable
- [x] Success criteria are technology-agnostic (no implementation details)
- [x] All acceptance scenarios are defined
- [x] Edge cases are identified
- [x] Scope is clearly bounded
- [x] Dependencies and assumptions identified

## Feature Readiness

- [x] All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
- [x] User scenarios cover primary flows
- [x] Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
- [x] No implementation details leak into specification

## Notes

- This spec intentionally defines a minimal “settings substrate” with one pilot setting to enable incremental adoption.
- Operational run observability is intentionally out of scope for settings mutations; audit entries are required for each successful mutation.
- SC-001 was tightened to a save + reload verification to avoid ambiguous time-based acceptance.
- Tasks explicitly include validation negative-path tests (unknown key + invalid value) to match FR-004/FR-005 edge cases.
- Plan Complexity Tracking table was deduped to a single “None” row.
