057-design-feature-toggles

057-design-feature-toggles is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jabrena/plinth. It costs 103 tokens per session (880 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A design and implementation guide for feature toggles in Java enterprise systems. A feature toggle is a setting that lets a team turn code behavior on or off without changing the code or deploying again.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan, build, review, test, or clean up release switches, kill switches, permission gates, canary rollouts, and temporary compatibility settings in Java services.
Why use it?
It helps control releases, rollouts, experiments, emergency shutdowns, and migrations without scattering confusing conditions throughout the code. It also addresses testing and removing toggles when they are no longer needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan, build, review, test, or clean up release switches, kill switches, permission gates, canary rollouts, and temporary compatibility settings in Java services.

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Install

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Any agent
npx skills add jabrena/plinth --skill 057-design-feature-toggles
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jabrena/plinth

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 880 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00103 $0.00880
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00440
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00176
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00088

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3a320f37388a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

057-design-feature-toggles 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.

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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/057-design-feature-toggles/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Feature Toggles Design

Guide Java Enterprise developers through safe feature toggle design and lifecycle management. This is an interactive SKILL.

What is covered in this Skill?

  • Deciding when a feature toggle is appropriate versus a branch, configuration change, deployment change, or parallel change
  • Classifying release toggles, operational kill switches, experiment toggles, permission toggles, and migration toggles
  • Designing typed toggle ownership, defaults, evaluation scope, fallback behavior, observability, and rollback controls
  • Implementing toggles in Java services without scattering flag checks or creating hidden long-term complexity
  • Reviewing toggles for release, rollback, security, privacy, concurrency, and maintenance risk
  • Testing both enabled and disabled paths, configuration failure behavior, rollout rules, and cleanup readiness

Constraints

Use feature toggles as explicit, owned runtime control points rather than hidden conditional complexity.

  • MUST read references/057-design-feature-toggles.md before applying feature toggle guidance
  • MUST classify the toggle type, owner, expected lifetime, default state, rollout audience, and removal trigger before recommending implementation
  • MUST design safe defaults, fallback behavior, observability, and rollback behavior for runtime evaluation failures
  • MUST keep toggle evaluation centralized, typed, and testable instead of scattering raw configuration lookups through business logic
  • MUST include cleanup expectations for temporary toggles before implementation is considered complete
  • MUST NOT use feature toggles to hide incomplete design decisions, weaken security controls, or leave permanent branches without explicit ownership

When to use this skill

  • Design a feature toggle strategy
  • Review this feature flag implementation
  • Add a kill switch safely
  • Plan a canary or staged rollout in a Java service
  • Test toggle on and off paths
  • Clean up an expired feature toggle
  • Decide whether this runtime behavior change needs a toggle

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

Files

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Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. 12d ago First seen · 72 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 3a320f37388a

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057-design-feature-toggles is a skill published in the GitHub repository jabrena/plinth (439 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 880 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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