Spec Template: Capability / Feature

Date: YYYY-MM-DD Status: Draft | In Review | Approved | Deprecated Owners: team-or-person Related ADRs: ADR-XXXX Related Contracts: CON-XXXX Traceability ID Prefix: REQ--

1. Intent

Why this exists and what business/technical outcome it must produce.

2. Scope

In scope:

Out of scope:

3. Actors and Personas

• Primary persona:
• Secondary personas:

4. Domain Concepts

• Concepts and vocabulary this spec introduces or uses.
• Reference canonical glossary entries.

5. Functional Requirements

Use stable IDs for traceability. - REQ-<area>-001: - REQ-<area>-002:

6. Non-Functional Requirements

• Performance and latency targets
• Scalability constraints
• Security requirements
• Reliability and availability goals

6.1 Tenancy & Isolation Requirements

• Tenant/workspace scoping rules
• Cross-scope access rules (if any)
• Required audit fields for scope-sensitive operations

7. Data Model and Contracts

• APIs/endpoints
• Event contracts
• Storage model and schema changes
• Versioning and backward compatibility rules

8. State Model and Flows

• Lifecycle states and transitions
• Happy-path and failure-path flows
• Retry/idempotency behavior

9. Errors and Remediation

• Error taxonomy
• User-facing remediation expectations
• Operator-facing debug fields

10. Observability and Audit

• Logs, metrics, traces
• Audit events emitted
• Alert thresholds and dashboards

11. Security and Abuse Cases

• Threat model summary
• Required controls
• Abuse scenarios and mitigations

12. Acceptance Tests

• TEST-<area>-001 verifies REQ-<area>-001
• TEST-<area>-002 verifies REQ-<area>-002

13. Rollout and Migration

• Feature flags
• Deployment sequencing
• Backfill/migration strategy

14. Open Questions

15. Decision Log

• YYYY-MM-DD: key design decision and rationale.