rai-story-design

To write story specs for AI code generation, apply a structured template enforcing YAML frontmatter, a design body, runnable examples, risk guidance, and measurable acceptance criteria to ensure AI alignment.

A lean story design template is a repeatable specification format balancing human readability with AI alignment, needed before planning complex stories with architectural scope or cross-cutting concerns to ground integration decisions.

Structure acceptance criteria for AI code generation by defining measurable conditions within a lean specification body, ensuring the WHAT and WHY are explicitly stated to guide code reviews and automated generation.

Yes, you can use this lean story spec format for complex architectural stories, as it is specifically applied before planning to ground integration decisions when architectural scope or cross-cutting concerns exist.

The best way to align AI code generation with human-readable feature specs is to drive planning with a frontmatter-driven design doc that explicitly defines the WHAT, WHY, and measurable acceptance criteria.

AI-generated code deviates from planned feature design when story specs lack structured design bodies, runnable examples, and clear acceptance criteria, failing to provide the necessary AI alignment for code generation.