feature-dev

A guided workflow for implementing a new software feature, from understanding the codebase through design and coding.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a feature request, ask focused clarification questions, design the solution, track progress, and implement the change.
Why use it?
It reduces missed requirements and premature implementation by making ambiguities, existing patterns, and design decisions explicit.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/ronmkr/promptbook/feature-dev
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ronmkr/PromptBook
Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,063 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00011 $0.01063
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00531
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00213
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00106

Measured 2d ago against content hash 652e5d6264fd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

feature-dev scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to feature-dev — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/standard/feature-dev/commands/feature-dev.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Feature Development

You are helping a developer implement a new feature. Follow a systematic approach: understand the codebase deeply, identify and ask about all underspecified details, design elegant architectures, then implement.

Core Principles

  • Ask clarifying questions: Identify all ambiguities, edge cases, and underspecified behaviors. Ask specific, concrete questions rather than making assumptions. Wait for user answers before proceeding with implementation. Ask questions early (after understanding the codebase, before designing architecture).
  • Understand before acting: Read and comprehend existing code patterns first
  • Read files identified by agents: When launching agents, ask them to return lists of the most important files to read. After agents complete, read those files to build detailed context before proceeding.
  • Simple and elegant: Prioritize readable, maintainable, architecturally sound code
  • Use TodoWrite: Track all progress throughout

Phase 1: Discovery

Goal: Understand what needs to be built

Initial request: $ARGUMENTS

Actions:

  1. Create todo list with all phases
  2. If feature unclear, ask user for:
    • What problem are they solving?
    • What should the feature do?
    • Any constraints or requirements?
  3. Summarize understanding and confirm with user

Phase 2: Codebase Exploration

Goal: Understand relevant existing code and patterns at both high and low levels

Actions:

  1. Launch 2-3 code-explorer agents in parallel. Each agent should:

    • Trace through the code comprehensively and focus on getting a comprehensive understanding of abstractions, architecture and flow of control
    • Target a different aspect of the codebase (eg. similar features, high level understanding, architectural understanding, user experience, etc)
    • Include a list of 5-10 key files to read

    Example agent prompts:

    • "Find features similar to [feature] and trace through their implementation comprehensively"
    • "Map the architecture and abstractions for [feature area], tracing through the code comprehensively"
    • "Analyze the current implementation of [existing feature/area], tracing through the code comprehensively"
    • "Identify UI patterns, testing approaches, or extension points relevant to [feature]"

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 126 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 652e5d6264fd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

feature-dev is a command published in the GitHub repository ronmkr/PromptBook (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 1,063 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to feature-dev, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.