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Specification Quality Checklist: Claude Backend Serve & Deploy Parity

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-03-20 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

Verification History

  • 2026-03-20 (verification): 8 findings surfaced, 7 applied, 1 deferred
  • Added FR-011 (entrypoint.sh bug fix), FR-012 (Node.js version validation), FR-013 (OTel preservation), FR-014 (subprocess lifecycle)
  • Reworded FR-006 (env var pass-through) and FR-007 (existing --dry-run enhancement)
  • Added assumptions: serve/chat mode reuse, permission behavior, entrypoint bug
  • Constitution Check section deferred to plan phase per user decision

Notes

  • Spec references specific tool names (Node.js, ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL) which are domain terms, not implementation details — they are inherent to the Claude Agent SDK product being integrated.
  • The Assumptions section documents that the protocol-level backend abstraction is already in place, scoping this feature to the validation/container/health check layers.
  • Anthropic's published secure deployment guidelines were incorporated as a reference for the security user story (P2).
  • Anthropic's container deployment docs (platform.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/secure-deployment#containers) were used as reference for security requirements.