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Specification Quality Checklist: Public API Endpoint Authentication ​

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-07-23 Feature: 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

Notes ​

  • All items pass on first draft. The three key design decisions (guest-JWT mechanism vs. proxy-secret, full scope of previously-public routers, and keeping this as a separate spec from 017-exception-handling-guideline) were already resolved with the user before this spec was drafted, so no [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers were needed.
  • The before_specify git-branch-creation hook (speckit.git.feature) was intentionally skipped: the current branch (017-exception-handling-guideline) has substantial uncommitted work in progress, and switching/creating a branch now would risk entangling 017's uncommitted changes with 018. .specify/feature.json was updated to point at this feature directory regardless, since downstream /speckit-plan / /speckit-tasks resolve the feature directory from that file, not from the git branch name. Per explicit user instruction (2026-07-23), no new branch will be created at all — this feature is implemented directly on 017-exception-handling-guideline.
  • /speckit-clarify session (2026-07-23, 4 questions) resolved: guest token statelessness (no DB row), access/refresh token split with a 1-hour access-token lifetime, a stable cross-refresh guest identifier, and retiring chat.py's existing cookie/ip-hash guest identification in favor of the new token. All items still pass after integrating these answers.