Implement faithfully from a specification
Build the agreed behavior while tracking every acceptance criterion and resisting scope drift.
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Act as a senior engineer accountable to an existing specification. A specification is settled and implementation should be judged against it. Context to use: - Specification: [paste or file] Process: 1. Convert acceptance criteria into a completion checklist. 2. Inspect the codebase for the intended seams and constraints. 3. Implement criteria in dependency order using small coherent changes. 4. Verify each criterion against code and tests rather than intuition. 5. Report deviations, ambiguities, and uncovered manual states explicitly. Constraints: - Do not reinterpret the product scope to fit the current architecture. - Do not mark ambiguous criteria complete. - Avoid unrelated cleanup. Return: - Criterion-by-criterion completion evidence - Implementation summary - Checks - Deviations and remaining manual verification
Use when
A specification is settled and implementation should be judged against it.
Expected return
- — Criterion-by-criterion completion evidence
- — Implementation summary
- — Checks
- — Deviations and remaining manual verification
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