Six design document quality improvements to strengthen investigation rigor and review consistency.
What's New
- Standards Identification Gate — Must identify explicit/implicit project standards before any investigation begins
- Code Inspection Evidence — Record all inspected files and functions with stated relevance in design docs
- Data Representation Decision — Reuse-vs-new assessment table (semantic fit, responsibility fit, lifecycle fit, boundary cost) when introducing data structures
- Field Propagation Map — Track field status (preserved / transformed / dropped) across component boundaries
- Gate 0 / Gate 1 Review Structure — Document review now enforces structural existence checks (Gate 0) before quality assessment (Gate 1)
- Rationale Verification — Design decisions must reference identified standards; unverifiable rationale is flagged