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.mdandplan.mdstill describe the old single-columnarticle_metrics.citation_countdesign and need a corresponding update via/speckit-planbefore implementation starts.