Capturing Business Requirements

Capture loop shown in capture-loop.mmd. It runs inside Phase 1, after a prototype walkthrough, and as the Phase 4 scribe.

Contents

• Constraints • Quick start • Workflow • Verification • References

Constraints

• Never invent. Only record what the captures or the SME state; mark inferences [UNCONFIRMED] and explicit statements [CONFIRMED]. Do not promote without SME sign-off.
• Gap marker: the exact string [NEEDS HUMAN INPUT] (reason in parentheses after it). check_gaps.py counts it; any variation is missed. It must not appear in the final handoff.
• Track each open decision once under ## Consolidated Gaps; treat Decision Pre-fills in the brief as confirmed.
• One capture mode per invocation; cite the source file for every story and rule.
• prototype-notes.md has a single writer: the observation extraction in prototype-companion-agent.md.
• Cheap multi-pass work goes through the cli-agent skill using the prompt templates here; never name models.

Quick start