documentation-criteria

# Documentation Creation Criteria

## Templates

- **[prd-template.md](references/prd-template.md)** - Product Requirements Document template
- **[adr-template.md](references/adr-template.md)** - Architecture Decision Record template
- **[ui-spec-template.md](references/ui-spec-template.md)** - UI Specification template (frontend/fullstack features)
- **[design-template.md](references/design-template.md)** - Technical Design Document template
- **[plan-template.md](references/plan-template.md)** - Work Plan template
- **[task-template.md](references/task-template.md)** - Task file template for implementation tasks

## Creation Decision Matrix

| Condition | Required Documents | Creation Order |
|-----------|-------------------|----------------|
| New Feature Addition (backend) | PRD → [ADR] → Design Doc → Work Plan | After PRD approval |
| New Feature Addition (frontend/fullstack) | PRD → **UI Spec** → [ADR] → Design Doc → Work Plan | UI Spec before Design Doc |
| ADR Conditions Met (see below) | ADR → Design Doc → Work Plan | Start immediately |
| 6+ Files | ADR → Design Doc → Work Plan (Required) | Start immediately |
| 3-5 Files | Design Doc → Work Plan (Recommended) | Start immediately |
| 1-2 Files | None | Direct implementation |

## ADR Creation Conditions (Required if Any Apply)

### 1. Contract System Changes
- **Adding nested contracts with 3+ levels**: `Contract A { Contract B { Contract C { field: T } } }`
  - Rationale: Deep nesting has high complexity and wide impact scope
- **Changing/deleting contracts used in 3+ locations**
  - Rationale: Multiple location impacts require careful consideration
- **Contract responsibility changes** (e.g., DTO→Entity, Request→Domain)
  - Rationale: Conceptual model changes affect design philosophy

### 2. Data Flow Changes
- **Storage location changes** (DB→File, Memory→Cache)
- **Processing order changes with 3+ steps**
  - Example: "Input→Validation→Save" to "Input→Save→Async Validation"
- **Data passing method changes** (parameter passing→shared state, direct reference→event-based communication)

### 3. Architecture Changes
- Layer addition, responsibility changes, component relocation

### 4. External Dependency Changes
- Library/framework/external API introduction or replacement

### 5. Complex Implementation Logic (Regardless of Scale)
- Managing 3+ states
- Coordinating 5+ asynchronous processes

## Detailed Document Definitions

### PRD (Product Requirements Document)

**Purpose**: Define business requirements and user value

**Includes**:
- Business requirements and user value
- Success metrics and KPIs (each metric specifies a numeric target and measurement method)
- User stories and use cases
- MoSCoW prioritization (Must/Should/Could/Won't)
- Acceptance criteria with sequential IDs (AC-001, AC-002, ...) for downstream traceability
- MVP and Future phase separation
- User journey diagram (required)
- Scope boundary diagram (required)

**Scope**: Business requirements, user value, success metrics, user stories, and prioritization only. Implementation details belong in Design Doc, technical selection rationale in ADR, phases and task breakdown in Work Plan.

### ADR (Architecture Decision Record)

**Purpose**: Record technical decision rationale and background

**Includes**:
- Decision (what was selected)
- Rationale (why that selection was made)
- Option comparison (minimum 3 options) and trade-offs
- Architecture impact
- Principled implementation guidelines (e.g., "Use dependency injection")

**Scope**: Decision, rationale, option comparison, architecture impact, and principled guidelines only. Implementation procedures and code examples belong in Design Doc, schedule and resource assignments in Work Plan.

### UI Specification

**Purpose**: Define UI structure, screen transitions, component decomposition, and interaction design for frontend features

**Includes**:
- Screen list and transition conditions
- Component decomposition with state x display matrix (default/loading/empty/error/partial)
- Interaction definitions linked to PRD acceptance criteria (EARS format)
- Prototype management (code-based prototypes as attachments, not source of truth)
- AC traceability from PRD to screens/components
- Existing component reuse map and design tokens
- Visual acceptance criteria (golden states, layout constraints)
- Accessibility requirements (keyboard, screen reader, contrast)

**Scope**: Screen structure, transitions, component decomposition, interaction design, and visual acceptance criteria only. Technical implementation and API contracts belong in Design Doc, test implementation in test skeleton generation output, schedule in Work Plan.

**Required Structural Elements**:
- At least one component with state x display matrix and interaction table
- AC traceability table mapping PRD ACs to screens/states
- Screen list with transition conditions
- Existing component reuse map (reuse/extend/new decisions)

**Prototype Code Handling**:
- Prototype code provided by user is placed in `docs/ui-spec/assets/{feature-name}/`
- Prototype is an attachment to UI Spec, never the source of truth
- UI Spec + Design Doc are the canonical specifications

### Design Document

**Purpose**: Define technical implementation methods in detail

**Includes**:
- **Existing codebase analysis** (required)
  - Implementation path mapping (both existing and new)
  - Integration point clarification (connection points with existing code even for new implementations)
- Technical implementation approach (vertical/horizontal/hybrid)
- **Technical dependencies and implementation constraints** (required implementation order)
- Interface and contract definitions
- Data flow and component design
- **Acceptance criteria (each criterion specifies a verifiable condition with pass/fail threshold)**
- Change impact map (clearly specify direct impact/indirect impact/no ripple effect)
- Complete enumeration of integration points
- Data contract clarification
- **Agreement che