# Specification Quality Checklist: SymForge Operator Server Spine (v8 8.1)

**Purpose**: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning
**Created**: 2026-06-16
**Feature**: [spec.md](../spec.md)

## Content Quality

- [x] No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs)
  - Note: protocol-interop terms (MCP Streamable HTTP, Bearer) are external **contracts** a harness must speak, not internal implementation choices; rmcp/axum/SQLite specifics are deliberately deferred to plan.md.
- [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

## Notes

- Spine slice only; onboarding/GUI/AAP explicitly out of scope (features 005+).
- Three independently-testable, independently-shippable user stories (P1 serve+auth, P2 compact-default, P3 durable ledger).
- Open design choices intentionally left for `/speckit-clarify`: API-key storage form, surface-flip release gating, durable-store location/format.
- Ready for `/speckit-clarify` (recommended — 3 design choices to de-risk) then `/speckit-plan`.
