Specification Quality Checklist: Vectorstore Reranking Extension

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2025-12-23 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

Notes

• All items passed validation
• Spec is ready for clarification or implementation planning
• The spec covers opt-in reranking with Cohere and vLLM providers as requested
• Graceful degradation and backward compatibility are explicitly addressed