What are SMART requirements in this context?

Requirements must be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound to ensure they are testable and provide clear guidance for developers and AI assistants.

Can I use this for existing software projects?

Yes, the skill includes specific workflows for maintaining, modifying, and deprecating existing requirements while preserving ID integrity and cross-reference links.

Does this skill help with testing?

Absolutely. By enforcing SMART principles and testability requirements, it ensures that every requirement can be verified through unit, integration, or end-to-end testing.

How does this skill prevent documentation hallucinations?

It enforces integrity standards that require every documented feature to be verified against existing code or approved project plans, preventing the documentation of non-existent features.

What is a backtracking link?

A backtracking link is a structured reference in a specification document that points directly back to the specific requirement ID it fulfills, ensuring clear traceability from design to need.

Requirements Authoring & Spec Management

Name: Requirements Authoring & Spec Management
Author: cuioss

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Content Management

Standardizes the creation and maintenance of SMART requirements and specification documents with full traceability and integrity.

About

This skill empowers Claude Code to act as a rigorous technical product manager and documentation expert by enforcing SMART principles and structural integrity across project requirements. It provides a standardized framework for generating unique requirement IDs, establishing backtracking links from specifications, and managing the entire documentation lifecycle from pre-implementation to post-release. By eliminating hallucinations and redundancy while ensuring testability, this skill bridges the gap between high-level business needs and concrete implementation code, maintaining a reliable single source of truth for complex software projects within the Plan Marshall orchestration layer.

Key Features

SMART requirement generation with standardized ID schemes and numbering
Automated backtracking and traceability link management between specs and requirements
Documentation lifecycle tracking with status indicators for implementation phases
Rigorous quality checks for clarity, consistency, and testability
Deprecation and maintenance workflows for long-term project documentation health
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Use Cases

Auditing existing specifications to ensure full traceability to implementation code
Generating structured requirement documents for a new software feature or module
Managing requirement updates and deprecations in established production environments

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Key Features

SMART requirement generation with standardized ID schemes and numbering
Automated backtracking and traceability link management between specs and requirements
Documentation lifecycle tracking with status indicators for implementation phases
Rigorous quality checks for clarity, consistency, and testability
Deprecation and maintenance workflows for long-term project documentation health
0 GitHub stars

Use Cases

Auditing existing specifications to ensure full traceability to implementation code
Generating structured requirement documents for a new software feature or module
Managing requirement updates and deprecations in established production environments