Requirement Ledger for Vibe Coding: Recover the Requirements Your AI Session Already Wrote
A requirement ledger is a retrospective requirements record: instead of writing a specification before you prompt an AI agent, you mine the conversation you already had and reconstruct what you actually required. Its evidence trail is the transcript, a test log, and a read-only Git snapshot — and your last correction beats your first prompt. Why do vibe-coded projects lose their requirements? They lose them because the intent was never written down in the first place — it lived in the chat window, and the chat window closes. A prompt is not a requirement document. It is a compressed instruction to a system that fills in every gap with a plausible guess, and the guesses are what you end up shipping. ...