# Feature Specification: Example Feature Name

**Source Issue**: [#000](https://github.com/example/repo/issues/000)

## Problem Statement

The current system lacks a specific capability that prevents users from accomplishing their workflow efficiently.
When developers attempt to perform the target action, they encounter friction that increases cycle time and
reduces productivity. This problem affects all team members who interact with the automated pipeline on a
daily basis.

Evidence of this problem is visible in recurring CI failures, manual intervention requirements, and developer
feedback collected over the past month. The root cause is a gap between the system's current behavior and
the expected contract defined by the project architecture.

## User Scenarios & Testing

### User Story 1 - Primary Workflow (Priority: P1)

As a developer using the automated pipeline, I expect the system to handle standard inputs correctly on the first attempt without requiring manual intervention or retries.

**Acceptance Scenarios**:

1. **Given** a standard input with complete metadata, **When** the pipeline processes it, **Then** the output passes all validation checks and is written to the target location within 30 seconds.

2. **Given** a standard input that previously caused intermittent failures, **When** processed with the improved logic, **Then** the success rate exceeds 95% over 20 consecutive runs.

### User Story 2 - Error Recovery (Priority: P1)

As a developer whose pipeline run encounters a transient failure, I expect the system to retry with enriched context and succeed without manual intervention.

**Acceptance Scenarios**:

1. **Given** a first attempt that fails validation due to a specific structural issue, **When** the retry
   mechanism activates, **Then** the enriched prompt addresses the exact failure reason and the second
   attempt produces valid output.

### User Story 3 - Graceful Degradation (Priority: P2)

As a developer whose pipeline has exhausted all retry attempts, I expect a deterministic fallback that allows the workflow to proceed while clearly indicating that manual review is needed.

**Acceptance Scenarios**:

1. **Given** all retry attempts have failed, **When** the fallback activates, **Then** a structurally valid
   output is produced that passes all automated checks and contains a visible banner indicating fallback
   activation.

## Requirements

### Functional Requirements

- **FR-001**: The system MUST validate all output against the structural contract before writing to disk, ensuring mandatory sections are present and content meets minimum quality thresholds.

- **FR-002**: The system MUST implement adaptive retry logic that enriches the generation prompt based on specific validation failure reasons from the previous attempt.

- **FR-003**: The system MUST provide a deterministic fallback mechanism that activates after retry exhaustion and produces structurally valid output derived from the available input data.

- **FR-004**: The system MUST support configurable validation thresholds that adapt to input complexity, reducing minimum content requirements for simpler inputs while maintaining structural completeness.

- **FR-005**: The system MUST emit structured, actionable error feedback for each validation failure including the specific problem, actual vs. expected values, and a remediation suggestion.

### Non-Functional Requirements

- **NFR-001**: Total processing time including all retries must not exceed 120 seconds for any single input.

- **NFR-002**: The retry mechanism must produce structurally equivalent output across repeated runs on the same input (structural idempotency at the contract level, not byte-level determinism).

## Success Criteria

- **SC-001**: First-attempt success rate reaches at least 90% across 50+ representative inputs measured over a 2-week deployment window.

- **SC-002**: Average retry count before successful validation is 1.2 or fewer, indicating most inputs succeed on first attempt.

- **SC-003**: Fallback activation rate remains below 3% of all generation attempts, confirming that improved generation and retries handle the vast majority of cases.

- **SC-004**: Zero workflow runs are blocked for more than 10 minutes due to generation failures, measured from trigger to either successful validation or fallback completion.
