requirements-yaml

A compact requirements format: one file, one line per requirement, terse enough to hand-edit and regular enough to review. A convention, not a gate — nothing enforces it; you do.

Human approval

requirements.yaml is human-owned. It is the source of truth, and a human decides what it says. Any change to it — adding, editing, removing, or reordering a requirement, goal, or non_goal — must be proposed to a human and explicitly approved before it is written. The agent drafts and proposes the exact change and says why; it never edits the file unilaterally, and never as a side effect of implementing or discovering.