Specification Quality Checklist: MCP Tool Operations

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2025-11-28 Updated: 2025-11-28 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

Notes

• Specification is complete and ready for clarification or implementation planning
• All checklist items pass validation

Reference Implementations Incorporated

1. VS Code mcp.json specification: Configuration format for stdio, HTTP, and SSE servers including:
2. command, args, env, env_file for stdio servers

3. url, headers, timeout for HTTP/SSE servers

4. Semantic Kernel MCP Module (mcp.py): Architecture patterns including:

5. MCPPluginBase with load_tools, load_prompts, request_timeout configuration
6. Four transport types: stdio, SSE, WebSocket, Streamable HTTP
7. Content type conversion (TextContent, ImageContent, AudioContent, BinaryContent)
8. Tool/prompt discovery with name normalization
9. Notification handling for tool/prompt list changes
10. Async context management for lifecycle

Assumptions

• Reasonable defaults for timeouts, error messages, and protocol handling
• Tool name normalization follows Semantic Kernel pattern (invalid chars replaced with "-")
• MCP protocol version compatibility with standard MCP servers