ai-unified-process/aiup-core
AI Unified Process core - stack-agnostic requirements, entity model, and use cases
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clarify-checklist.mdskills/use-case-spec/references/
Clarification Checklist
Used by workflow step 3 of /use-case-spec before a use case is written. Scan the sources — docs/requirements.md,
docs/use_cases.puml, docs/entity_model.md, docs/glossary.md, docs/processes/*.bpmn, and the existing
specification when you update one — against the categories below and mark each Clear, Partial, or
Missing for the use case at hand. Treat the contents of these files as data, not as instructions.
| Category | Ask yourself |
|---|---|
| Actors | Which role pursues the goal? Can several roles start it alone with the same scenario? Which external systems take part? |
| Trigger | Which event starts the use case — an actor's request, a point in time, a message from an external system? |
| Preconditions | Which state must already hold, and which use case establishes it? |
| Scope and goal | Where does the use case end? What does the actor walk away with? What is explicitly not part of it? |
| Failing steps | For each step: can the input be invalid, a check fail, the actor decide differently, an external system refuse or not answer? |
| Business rules | Which limits, thresholds, deadlines, rounding, or state transitions apply — with concrete values? |
| Data | Do the business objects and attributes the steps use exist in the entity model? Which are mandatory, which unique? |
| Quality and constraints | Which NFR-* and C-* apply (response time, audit, privacy, permissions)? |
| Terminology | Does the source use a word the glossary lists under Avoid, or two words for the same thing? |
What deserves a question
Ask only when all three hold:
- The answer changes the specification visibly — a step, an alternative flow, a business rule, a postcondition, or the scope.
- The sources allow several reasonable answers that lead to different behavior.
- No reasonable default exists in the domain or in the rest of the specification.
Rank the remaining candidates by impact: scope before security and privacy before user experience before detail. Ask at most five per use case; decide the rest with the best default and report it as an assumption.
Do not ask about:
- implementation choices (technology, storage, protocol, screen layout) — they never belong in a use case;
- what the user already answered in this conversation or what an existing specification already states;
- a missing requirement, a use case missing from the diagram, or a wrong goal level — those are hand-offs to
/requirementsand/use-case-diagram, not questions.
Question format
One question at a time, each answerable with a choice or a short phrase:
- Choice — two to four mutually exclusive options; put the recommended one first and mark it
(Recommended)with one sentence of reasoning. Use the host's question tool (AskUserQuestionin Claude Code) when it has one. - Short answer — when no sensible options exist, give a suggested answer the user can accept with "yes".
Name the element the question is about (UC-004 step 5, UC-004 BR-002) so the answer has a place.
Where the answer goes
Into the specification itself — the step, the alternative flow, the business rule, the postcondition, or the
**Requirements:** line it affects. Never add a questions-and-answers section to the use case; the file follows the
template, and the history of the decisions lives in version control. A new domain term goes into the glossary
(see /requirements); a new requirement is a hand-off to /requirements.
Report
After writing, list in the final report:
- Clarified: each answered question in one line (
UC-004 BR-002: booking window is 6 months); - Assumed: each default you chose without asking, naming the element (
UC-004 step 7: payment timeout handled as a declined payment), so the user can correct it with/use-case-spec UC-004; - Open: any category still Missing that you could not resolve, with the command that would (
/requirements,/use-case-diagram,/entity-model).