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Requirements 📋
Requirements live under docs/requirements/ and are the SPOT for what the project must do.
Their primary purpose is to drive AI-agent-assisted development: a contributor creates a requirement
file and then instructs the agent to iterate — following requirements.md
and iteration.md — until every Acceptance Criterion is fulfilled.
Creating a requirement is not mandatory to work on a task. For normal work items, bugs, or feature requests, use the project tools directly:
- Internal planning and work items: project.infinito.nexus
- Bug reports and feature requests: s.infinito.nexus/issues
Writing a requirement file is RECOMMENDED when you want an AI agent to autonomously implement and validate a feature end to end, because it gives the agent a structured, checkable definition of done.
File Naming
Every requirements file MUST follow the pattern NNN-topic.md, where NNN is a zero-padded
three-digit sequence number (e.g. 000-template.md, 001-auth.md).
File Structure
Every requirements file MUST follow this template exactly:
# NNN - Title
## User Story
As a <role>, I want <goal> so that <benefit>.
## Acceptance Criteria
- [ ] Criterion one.
- [ ] Criterion two.
- The User Story MUST follow the "As a / I want / so that" format.
- Each Acceptance Criterion MUST be written as a Markdown task list item (
- [ ]). - Criteria MUST be independently verifiable — one observable outcome per item.
- Completed criteria MUST be checked off (
- [x]) once the corresponding work is merged.
Cross-linking
- You MUST cross-link from the requirement to any PR or issue that implements it.
- You MUST cross-link from the implementing PR template back to the requirement file.
See Also
- How agents process requirements: requirements.md