factory-feature-architect

factory-feature-architect is a skill for Claude Code from nonlinear-xyz/factory-kit. It costs 98 tokens per session (1,457 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for turning a vague product request into a concrete feature specification. It identifies the feature type, smallest useful scope, decisions that still need answers, risks, and the specialist workflows needed to build it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan new product features such as customer management, approval processes, reports, integrations, AI tools, and data-processing systems. It produces a buildable outline without writing the implementation code.
Why use it?
It helps teams start with clear boundaries instead of implementing an underspecified request and discovering major decisions halfway through development. It also separates entities, workflows, dashboards, integrations, AI features, and data pipelines.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the factory-kit plugin — 37 skills, 8 commands, 12 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan new product features such as customer management, approval processes, reports, integrations, AI tools, and data-processing systems. It produces a buildable outline without writing the implementation code.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nonlinear-xyz/factory-kit/factory-feature-architect
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.

Any agent
npx skills add nonlinear-xyz/factory-kit --skill factory-feature-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nonlinear-xyz/factory-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install factory-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 8 commands, 12 agents, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for factory-feature-architect

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nonlinear-xyz/factory-kit/factory-feature-architect.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nonlinear-xyz/factory-kit/factory-feature-architect)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nonlinear-xyz/factory-kit/factory-feature-architect"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nonlinear-xyz/factory-kit/factory-feature-architect.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,457 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 $0.00098 $0.01457
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00728
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00291
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00146

Measured 7d ago against content hash 43b595913d39, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

factory-feature-architect 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 7d 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/factory-feature-architect/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apply the feature-architect specialist workflow. Turn a vague client request into a buildable specification, identify decisions, and route to the right specialist workflow. Do not write code. Load factory-stack end-to-end through the host's skill capability when needed.

How to think (in order)

  1. What is the user actually asking? Restate the request in one sentence. If ambiguous, name the ambiguity and pick the most reasonable interpretation — don't ask follow-up questions; commit and flag.

  2. What's the noun? Map to one of:

    • Entity — has a list, detail, create/edit (e.g. customers, invoices, products)
    • Workflow — process spanning multiple entities (e.g. approval flow, claim verification)
    • Dashboard / report — read-only aggregation
    • Integration — external system in/out (CRM, accounting, ERP)
    • AI / LLM feature — agent, RAG, chat
    • Data pipeline — ingestion, transform, simulation

    If it's not one of these, that's the finding — surface it.

  3. What's the scope? Strict minimum-viable cut. If the user asks for "a customer management page," the cut might be:

    • MVP: list + create + edit, no delete, no bulk ops, no filtering beyond status
    • V2: filtering, search, soft delete
    • V3: bulk actions, custom fields, exports

    Name what's in MVP and what's deferred. Don't sneak V2 features into MVP.

  4. Which decision-criteria choices apply? Reference factory-stack.md. Common ones:

    • Component library: Mantine vs shadcn — pick based on project type + existing decisions
    • API style: server actions vs tRPC — pick based on project pattern
    • Auth provider: Better Auth + orgs / Supabase + RLS / Clerk
    • ORM: Drizzle / Supabase types
    • Storage: structured columns / JSONB envelope

    If the project's DECISIONS.md exists, defer to it. If not, propose values inline.

  5. Which skills / subagents will this need? Route:

    • UI surface → frontend-engineer + factory-frontend.md
    • Forms with sensitive data → frontend-engineer + factory-security.md
    • DB schema or migrations → db-schema-architect (Phase B) + factory-data-layer.md
    • Auth wiring → auth-wiring-specialist (Phase B) + factory-auth.md
    • LLM workflow → llm-workflow-engineer + factory-llm-workflows.md
    • CSV / Python service / pipeline → data-pipeline-engineer + factory-data-pipelines.md
    • Threat-model or AI-code review → security-engineer + factory-security.md
  6. What are the risks? Surface concrete risks, not abstract concerns:

    • Sensitive data → KMS at rest? BAA?
    • Multi-tenant → org keying enforced at middleware + DB?
    • High-volume mutation → rate limit? audit log?
    • AI-code path → read-only-by-default? review queue?
  7. What's the smallest correct change? If a request implies a redesign of something else, name it and stop — don't sneak it in.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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. 7d ago First seen · 120 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 43b595913d39

Subscribe to this mod's changes

factory-feature-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository nonlinear-xyz/factory-kit (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 1,457 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 2026-08-31.