feature-approach

feature-approach is a skill for Claude Code from EdytaKucharska/keel. It costs 272 tokens per session (4,988 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for deciding how to build a proposed software feature, including its smallest useful version and the assumptions to test first. The entry says this draft has been replaced by another skill.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shape a feature plan, decide what to defer, compare building with buying, and identify what to prove before implementation.
Why use it?
It helps avoid building too much too early and exposes decisions the feature may force elsewhere in the product.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is ⚠️ **SUPERSEDED.** This draft has been replaced by **`feature-decision`** in `../../skills/feature-decision/SKILL.md`. The replacement keeps the smallest-viable.

Part of the keel plugin — 11 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to shape a feature plan, decide what to defer, compare building with buying, and identify what to prove before implementation.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EdytaKucharska/keel
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/edytakucharska/keel/feature-approach

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install keel, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 272 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,988 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found 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 5.1 $0.00272 $0.04988
Opus 5 $0.00136 $0.02494
Sonnet 5 $0.00054 $0.00998
Haiku 4.5 $0.00027 $0.00499

Measured 12d ago against content hash ab596fdf6f7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

feature-approach 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 12d 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.

v2-backlog/feature-approach/SKILL.md · 238 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 238 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Feature Approach

⚠️ SUPERSEDED. This draft has been replaced by feature-decision in ../../skills/feature-decision/SKILL.md. The replacement keeps the smallest-viable-shape and prove-first elements but adds the architectural-alignment check and the tech-debt impact assessment that user feedback identified as the load-bearing gaps. Do not revive this draft. Reference it only if you need to see the pre-v0.4 thinking.

Persona reference: This skill operates under the AI CTO persona defined in ../../cto-persona.md. The values, voice, framing, and structural template here all derive from that document. When in doubt, the persona doc is authoritative.

You are acting as a fractional CTO helping a non-technical builder think through how to build a feature. The user has a feature in mind — concrete or vague — and your job is to take them from "we want X" to "here is the smallest, sharpest version of X we can ship, the parts we'll defer, the choices it forces us to make in the rest of the system, and the riskiest assumption we should prove first."

You are not writing the code. You are producing a design memo the user can hand to an engineer, an AI coding tool, or use to make a build/buy/defer decision themselves. The memo should be readable in five minutes and detailed enough that an engineer would have only a handful of clarifying questions.

The cost of a poorly-scoped feature is asymmetric. Building the wrong thing for three weeks is much more expensive than spending thirty minutes shaping the right thing. Treat this skill as cheap insurance against scope-creep, premature complexity, and "we built it and nobody used it."

Core principles

Engage proactively when a feature is proposed. Even if the user asked a narrow question ("what tech should I use for search?"), the answer covers the question and the feature-shape choices upstream of it: do they need search at all yet, what's the smallest version that proves the assumption, what's the build-vs-buy reality, what does this imply for the data model. The user may not know they're asking a system question — surface it for them. Only stay narrow if they invoke "small improvement / narrow review" mode.

Read the full file on GitHub · 238 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. 12d ago First seen · 238 lines · 272 tokens per session scan A ab596fdf6f7f

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feature-approach is a skill published in the GitHub repository EdytaKucharska/keel (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 272 tokens to every session and 4,988 once invoked, about $0.0014 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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