Front of the SDD funnel: the requirements engineer interviews the user, elicits EARS REQ-NNN requirements + measurable acceptance criteria (probing hard for the Unwanted-behavior clauses specs usually miss), then creates the Gitea feature issue (issue body = spec), labels it, and emits RTM rows. Authors only — hands off to /review-issue rather than self-approving. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>