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Specification Quality Checklist: Unstructured Vector Ingestion and Search

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2025-11-23 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

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

Requirement Completeness

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

Feature Readiness

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

Validation Results

Status: ✅ PASSED

All validation criteria met. The specification is ready for clarification or implementation planning.

Details

Content Quality: All sections focus on WHAT users need (semantic search capabilities, multi-format support) and WHY (enable question-answering, handle realistic documentation scenarios) without specifying HOW to implement. No mention of specific libraries, frameworks, or code structure.

Requirement Completeness: All 20 functional requirements are testable (e.g., FR-002 "MUST accept both file and directory paths" can be verified by testing with both input types). Success criteria are measurable (SC-002 "within 2 seconds", SC-003 "95% of content in top 5 results") and technology-agnostic (no database-specific or framework-specific metrics).

Feature Readiness: User stories are prioritized (P1-P3), independently testable, and map directly to functional requirements. Edge cases cover boundary conditions (empty files, unsupported formats, encoding issues). Scope is bounded to vectorstore tool functionality without expanding to other tool types.

Notes

  • No issues found during validation
  • Specification is complete and unambiguous
  • Ready to proceed with implementation planning