# Specification Quality Checklist: LLM-Powered Commit Message Generator

**Purpose**: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning
**Created**: November 28, 2025
**Feature**: [spec.md](../spec.md)

## Content Quality

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

## Requirement Completeness

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

## Feature Readiness

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

## Validation Notes

**Content Quality**:
- ✓ Spec focuses on WHAT and WHY without HOW (no mention of specific frameworks, only LiteLLM as general LLM abstraction)
- ✓ Written for stakeholders with clear user scenarios and business value
- ✓ All mandatory sections (User Scenarios, Constitution Check, Requirements, Success Criteria) are completed

**Requirement Completeness**:
- ✓ No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers present - all requirements are specific and actionable
- ✓ All requirements are testable via unit/integration tests or user acceptance testing
- ✓ Success criteria include specific metrics (10 seconds, 90% minimal editing, 95% self-service resolution)
- ✓ Success criteria avoid implementation details and focus on user outcomes
- ✓ All 8 user stories have detailed acceptance scenarios in Given/When/Then format
- ✓ Edge cases comprehensively cover failure modes (large diffs, network failures, no history, binary files, etc.)
- ✓ Scope clearly excludes v1.1+ features (commit splitting, IDE plugins, git-tab completions, learning from edits)
- ✓ Dependencies identified: git, LLM provider API keys, clipboard support (graceful degradation)

**Feature Readiness**:
- ✓ 20 functional requirements each map to specific acceptance scenarios in user stories
- ✓ User scenarios prioritized P1-P3 with P1 (basic generation) as independently testable MVP
- ✓ Success criteria SC-001 through SC-009 are all measurable and achievable
- ✓ No implementation leaks detected (spec describes behavior, not code structure)

**Overall Assessment**: ✅ PASSED - Specification is complete, unambiguous, and ready for planning phase.
