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Specification Quality Checklist: MongoDB Envelope Credentials and Credential Exchange

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-05-20 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality​

  • No unresolved template placeholders remain
  • Focused on user value, security outcomes, and operational needs
  • Mandatory Speckit sections are completed
  • Technical feasibility details are isolated to the feasibility and proposed design sections requested by the user

Requirement Completeness​

  • No unresolved clarification markers remain
  • Requirements are testable and unambiguous
  • Success criteria are measurable
  • Acceptance scenarios cover the primary user and operator flows
  • Edge cases are identified for authorization, sharing, refresh, outages, migration, and leakage
  • Scope is clearly bounded with assumptions and out-of-scope items
  • Dependencies on MongoDB envelope encryption, KMS/CMK key wrapping, Keycloak, OpenFGA/ReBAC, Dynamic Agents, and MCP servers are identified

Feature Readiness​

  • User stories are independently testable and prioritized
  • Static BYO secrets and OAuth provider credentials are both represented
  • User-facing Connections & Secrets UX is represented
  • Admin OAuth connector configuration and validation is represented
  • USE_IMPERSONATION_TOKENS behavior is captured for GitHub, Jira, and Confluence MCP servers
  • PR #1282 is captured as a selective implementation input, not a blind merge
  • Feature-toggle behavior is documented for disabled and enabled modes
  • MongoDB envelope encryption, Keycloak broker storage, and future OpenBao trade-offs are documented
  • Default target architecture is explicit: Keycloak for identity/OBO, MongoDB envelope encryption for credential material, and OpenBao as a future backend
  • Security requirements include deny-by-default, least privilege, audit, no raw secret logging, a standard service-to-service credential API, and explicit browser-side retrieval/exchange denial
  • Migration concerns for existing inline/env-var credential patterns are captured
  • RBAC living documentation impact is called out

Notes​

  • The spec intentionally includes implementation-adjacent feasibility notes because the user requested architecture pros/cons before implementation.
  • The Speckit helper script was not run because it always creates and checks out a new branch; the user explicitly requested writing the spec on the same branch.