# Specification Quality Checklist: Baseline Capture Truthful Outcomes and Upstream Guardrails

**Purpose**: Capture specification completeness and quality at planning handoff, while keeping post-plan status notes aligned with the current artifact set  
**Created**: 2026-04-23  
**Feature**: [spec.md](../spec.md)

## Content Quality

- [x] No implementation algorithms, code diffs, or migration steps
- [x] Focused on user value and business needs
- [x] Repo-specific constitutional and surface-contract references remain intentional and bounded
- [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 algorithms or file-by-file execution steps leak into specification

## Notes

- This checklist records the spec's readiness at planning handoff; `plan.md`, `research.md`, `data-model.md`, `quickstart.md`, and `tasks.md` now exist as the implementation-facing artifacts for this feature.
- Repo-specific constitutional contract references are intentional and bounded; the spec still avoids implementation algorithms, code diffs, migration steps, and file-by-file implementation plans.
- No clarification markers remain, and the current scope is fully aligned across spec, plan, tasks, and supporting artifacts for implementation.