speckit-checklist

To generate a test-ready checklist, the skill parses feature context from spec.md, plan.md, and tasks.md files, producing categorized checklist items with traceability references. It converts feature requirements into structured quality criteria for validation.

A spec-kit checklist is a structured set of unit-test style criteria that validates requirements completeness, clarity, consistency, coverage, and measurability. It applies canonical templates with traceability references to ensure each item maps back to spec sections.

You create quality validation checklists by reading feature context from spec.md, plan.md, and tasks.md within the .specify directory structure. The generated checklists are stored under checklists/ organized by domain.

Yes, you can use this checklist generator with ambiguous feature requirements. It derives up to three clarifying questions from user input to focus the checklist content before generating the quality validation items.

The quality dimensions covered when validating feature specs include Completeness, Clarity, Consistency, Coverage, and Measurability. Each generated checklist item evaluates requirements against these specific criteria.

Generated checklists are organized under the checklists/ directory by domain and tracked using canonical CHK IDs. Each checklist item includes traceability references that link back to the relevant spec sections and evaluation criteria.