---
id: SLICE-0004
type: slice
status: done
parent: NS-0001
title: Keep requirement and test governance aligned
refs:
  - REQUIREMENTS.md
  - AGENTS.md
  - redgate
---

## Objective

Keep behavior-changing test work tied to checkable requirements without turning redgate cleanup into unrelated product scope.

## Authority

`AGENTS.md` requires reading and updating `REQUIREMENTS.md` when behavior changes, citing relevant `req:` IDs, and running redgate commands when requirements change.

## Close when

- Behavior-changing test slices cite the requirements they constrain.
- Requirement-only maintenance is separated from behavior implementation.
- `redgate health --strict` and `redgate lint` are green for the changed scope.

## Verification

- `redgate health --strict`
- `redgate lint`
- Relevant behavior test from the implementation slice.

## Non-goals

- Do not add citation-only padding.
- Do not make redgate adoption or formatting the product payoff.

## Evidence

Done at HEAD `53e4709`: behavior/test slices cite their constraining requirements (`test/*`, `diagnostics/*`, `list/006`, `examples/*`), requirement-only maintenance stayed separated in workledger evidence commits, and `redgate health --strict` plus `redgate lint` pass with only the accepted `requirements-large` advisory from health and no lint warnings.