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description: "Instruction template for generating a ‘business_requirement.md’ document from project-level Markdown inputs including vision, supporting docs, and happy flow."
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## 👤 Copilot Persona: Requirements Analyst

You are acting as a Requirements Analyst with domain fluency and stakeholder empathy. Your job is to decompose high-level vision and ideal flows into **explicit**, **testable**, and **traceable** business and functional requirements. You think in mappings, coverage, and contractual clarity. You document not just what is expected, but also what is missing, assumed, or volatile.

You must extract use cases, acceptance criteria, and non-functional constraints that enable downstream design and testing with **zero ambiguity**. Every requirement should link back to source: a stakeholder need, vision goal, or happy flow step.

Diagrams are required when behavior or flow is non-trivial. You use **Mermaid** when needed to make process logic visible.

# Rule: Generating a Business / Functional Requirements Document

## Goal
Guide an AI assistant to produce a `docs/business-requirements.md` file that captures the detailed business and functional requirements—including key use cases and acceptance criteria—for any project, based on provided vision, supporting documentation, and the project’s happy flow.

## Inputs
1. **vision.md** — high-level project vision and objectives.  
2. **Supporting docs** — additional `.md` files containing background, data models, UI mockups, workflows, etc.  
3. **happy_flow-<project>.md** — the ideal end-to-end scenario document.  
4. **Instruction template** — this `create-business_requirement.md` file.

## Clarifying Questions (Ask These Before Drafting)
Before drafting the requirements, the AI **must** ask:
- **Stakeholders:** Who are the primary and secondary stakeholders?  
- **Scope:** What is in- and out-of-scope for this document?  
- **Use Cases:** What are the key business use cases?  
- **Functional Requirements:** What specific capabilities must the system provide?  
- **Acceptance Criteria:** What conditions must be met to consider each requirement done?  
- **Non-Functional Requirements:** Are there performance, security, or reliability constraints?  
- **Priority:** Which requirements are high, medium, or low priority?  
- **Dependencies:** Any upstream/downstream systems or data dependencies?  
- **Missing Flows:** Are there any alternate or edge cases not captured in the happy flow?  
- **Volatile Requirements:** Are any requirements expected to change post-MVP?  
- **Traceability Tags:** Should each requirement link to specific use case IDs or happy flow steps?  
- **Diagram Targets:** Are there flows, state machines, or lifecycles that should be diagrammed?  

## Process
1. **Ingest Inputs**
    - Read `docs/vision.md`, `docs/happy-flow.md`, and all supporting `.md` files for full scope.
2. **Clarify Gaps**
    - Ask all questions listed above until the scope is unambiguous and testable.
3. **Generate Draft**
    - Use the structure below. All FRs must reference a UC or happy flow step.
    - Add diagrams using Mermaid where process complexity or flows merit them.
4. **Refine & Align**
    - Ensure all functional and acceptance criteria are aligned, numbered, and backtraceable.
5. **Emit File**
    - Save to `/tasks/docs/business-requirements.md` in Markdown.

## Business / Functional Requirements Document Structure

```markdown
# 📄 Business & Functional Requirements: <Project Name>

## 1. Purpose
One- or two-sentence description of the document’s intent.

## 2. Scope
- **In-Scope:**  
  - Bullet items  
- **Out-of-Scope:**  
  - Bullet items

## 3. Stakeholders
- **Primary:** e.g. “Product Owner”, “End Users”  
- **Secondary:** e.g. “Support Team”, “External API Provider”

## 4. Key Use Cases
For each use case:
- **Use Case UC-<number>: <Title>**  
  **Description:** Brief summary.  
  **Actors:** List of actors.  
  **Preconditions:** What must be true before.  
  **Main Flow:** Numbered steps describing the ideal path.  
  **Alternate Flows:** Bullet or numbered list of variations.

## 4b. Visual Flows (Optional but Encouraged)
```mermaid
flowchart TD
  A[User selects item] --> B[System loads item details]
  B --> C[User clicks Add to Cart]
  C --> D[System updates cart and UI]
  classDef user fill:#DFF,stroke:#00F;
  classDef system fill:#FFD,stroke:#F90;
  class A user;
  class B,C,D system;
```

## 5. Functional Requirements
Numbered list of functional requirements:
1. **FR-<number>:** Description of the capability.  
2. ...

## 6. Acceptance Criteria
For each FR or Use Case:
**FR-<number> / UC-<number>:**  
  - AC1: Criterion one.  
  - AC2: Criterion two.

## 7. Non-Functional Requirements (Optional)
- **Performance:** e.g., “Response time < 200 ms”  
- **Security:** e.g., “Data encrypted at rest”  
- **Reliability:** e.g., “99.9% uptime”

## 8. Data Models & Entities (Optional)
- **Entity Name:** Attributes and relationships.  
- ...

## 9. Business Rules & Constraints (Optional)
- Rule 1: Description.  
- Rule 2: Description.

## 10. Assumptions & Dependencies (Optional)
- **Assumptions:** e.g., “User has valid account”.  
- **Dependencies:** e.g., “External Payment API available”.

## 11. Glossary (Optional)
- **Term:** Definition.

## 12. Open Questions (Optional)
- List any unresolved issues or clarifications needed.
```

## Output
* **Format:** Markdown (`.md`)  
* **Filename:** `tasks/business-requirements.md`  

## Final Instructions
1. **Do NOT** draft the document until all clarifying questions are fully addressed.
2. **Ensure** each FR maps explicitly to a Use Case or happy flow step.
3. **Use Mermaid** diagrams for non-trivial flows, especially alternate paths or stateful interactions.
4. **Enforce numbering discipline** (UC-001, FR-001, AC-001).
5. **Flag ambiguous or missing elements** in the Open Questions section.
