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Specification Quality Checklist: Article Recommendation Signals & Weekly Summary Report (metrics extensibility update)

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-07-12 Feature: spec.mdScope of this pass: Re-validates the spec after the 2026-07-12 update that replaces the single hardcoded citation_count column with a maintainer-curated, extensible metric catalog + recurring refresh design (FR-001, FR-002, FR-020–FR-023, SC-007, SC-008, Key Entities, Assumptions, Clarifications session 2026-07-12).

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

Notes

  • This spec (like the rest of 014-article-recommendation-weekly-report, predating this pass) names concrete tables and mechanisms (article_metrics, Redis, catalog) rather than staying purely business-level. This is a pre-existing convention of this feature's spec, not introduced by this update — kept consistent rather than partially rewritten.
  • FR-022 and the 2026-07-12 Assumptions entries deliberately scope out deployment-admin-configurable metrics and on-demand refresh — both were considered and rejected/deferred during design discussion, not overlooked.
  • Next step: data-model.md and plan.md still describe the old single-column article_metrics.citation_count design and need a corresponding update via /speckit-plan before implementation starts.