# Specification Quality Checklist: Backend Architecture Pivot

**Purpose**: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning  
**Created**: 2025-12-09  
**Feature**: [spec.md](../spec.md)  
**Status**: ✅ VALIDATED (2025-12-09)

## 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

## Validation Summary

**Date**: 2025-12-09  
**Result**: ✅ ALL CHECKS PASSED

**Actions Taken**:
1. Removed all code examples from spec.md and moved to separate technical-notes.md
2. Rewrote Success Criteria to be technology-agnostic (removed references to Redis, BullMQ, Grep-Search, etc.)
3. Updated Dependencies section to be library-agnostic (e.g., "Job Queue System" instead of "BullMQ")
4. Simplified Technical Notes section to high-level architecture overview only

**Quality Improvements**:
- Spec is now fully business-focused and stakeholder-friendly
- Technical implementation details isolated in separate document
- Success criteria focus on user-visible outcomes and system behavior
- All mandatory sections complete with clear acceptance scenarios

**Ready for**: `/speckit.plan` command to generate implementation plan