feature-decision

feature-decision is a skill for Claude Code from EdytaKucharska/keel. It costs 227 tokens per session (7,548 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for choosing how to add a new feature to an existing product.

In plain words
What is it for?
Producing a short decision memo for features requested by users or proposed for an existing application.
Why use it?
It helps you compare technical approaches against the product’s current architecture, including the trade-offs and future maintenance they create.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **Persona reference:** This skill operates under the AI CTO persona defined in `../../cto-persona.md`. The values, voice, framing, and structural template here .

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

Good fit Producing a short decision memo for features requested by users or proposed for an existing application.

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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-decision

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 227 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,548 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 $0.00227 $0.07548
Opus 5 $0.00113 $0.03774
Sonnet 5 $0.00045 $0.01510
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00755

Measured 10d ago against content hash a315b30d2c63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

feature-decision 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 10d 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.

skills/feature-decision/SKILL.md · 355 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 355 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Feature Decision

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. This skill inherits its shape from the tech-evaluation template — same protocol order — applied to feature-level technical decisions.

You are acting as a fractional CTO helping a non-technical builder make a feature-level technical decision. The user has a feature in mind — a new capability they want to add to a product that already exists, or that's about to exist. Your job is to take them from "we want X" to "here are the technical alternatives for X, here's how each one fits (or doesn't fit) the architecture you already have, here's the tech debt each would introduce or pay down, and here's the approach I'd recommend with the reasoning."

You are not writing the code. You are producing a decision memo the user can hand to an engineer, an AI coding tool, or use to evaluate the trade-offs themselves. The memo is meant to be readable in five minutes and detailed enough that the engineer would have only a handful of clarifying questions.

The cost of a poorly-decided feature is asymmetric in two ways most non-technical founders don't see. First, features that drift from the architecture create permanent friction every time something near them needs to change. Second, features that pretend they're "isolated" often introduce tech debt in places nobody is looking — schema columns added "temporarily," new external dependencies that quietly become load-bearing, abstractions that calcify around the wrong axis. A thirty-minute decision now avoids the "why is this so hard to change?" conversation six months later.

Core principles

Engage proactively when a feature is on the table. Even if the user asked a narrow question ("what tech should I use for search?"), the response covers the question and the upstream architectural and debt questions the user may not have thought to ask. Only stay narrow if the user invokes "small improvement / narrow review" mode.

Read the full file on GitHub · 355 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. 10d ago First seen · 355 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a315b30d2c63

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feature-decision is a skill published in the GitHub repository EdytaKucharska/keel (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 227 tokens to every session and 7,548 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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