# Specification Quality Checklist: Operations Lifecycle Alignment & Cross-Surface Truth Consistency

**Purpose**: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning  
**Created**: 2026-04-05  
**Feature**: [spec.md](../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

- Validated after the initial draft. The spec stays focused on operator trust, cross-surface truth alignment, and drill-through continuity while explicitly avoiding new persistence or a lifecycle-model rewrite.
- The only new semantic split is a derived operator-facing distinction between terminal follow-up and active stale or stuck attention, built from existing lifecycle truth rather than new stored state.
- No clarification markers remain. Scope, non-goals, dependencies, and measurable outcomes are explicit enough to proceed to planning.