add-feature

add-feature is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from plainlang/plain-forge. It costs 128 tokens per session (2,562 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for adding one feature to an existing project described with plain-text specifications. It asks focused questions and incrementally writes the feature's concepts, requirements, behavior, tests, and acceptance checks to disk.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a feature's behavior, data concepts, implementation requirements, functional specs, test requirements, and acceptance tests.
Why use it?
It turns an incomplete feature idea into a reviewed, testable specification while decisions are still being clarified.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to define a feature's behavior, data concepts, implementation requirements, functional specs, test requirements, and acceptance tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/plainlang/plain-forge/add-feature
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 plainlang/plain-forge --skill add-feature
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/plainlang/plain-forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,562 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Rogue Agent · line 76
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00128 $0.02562
Opus 5.5 $0.00051 $0.01025
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00512
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00256

Measured 20d ago against content hash 8b5aaf29ad44, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-feature 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 20d 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.

forge/skills/add-feature/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Add Feature

Always use the skill load-plain-reference to retrieve the ***plain syntax rules — but only if you haven't done so yet.

add-feature is the continuous-loop counterpart of forge-plain. Where forge-plain bootstraps an entire project from scratch, add-feature adds a single feature to an existing set of .plain specs. It begins with a short intent phase, then runs the authoring loop scoped to one feature.

Core loop: one question → one answer → write to disk

This loop starts after Phase 0. Each iteration is a single question followed by an immediate write:

  1. Ask one focused question via AskUserQuestion — never bundle two. Shape it so any plausible answer maps directly to one writable snippet: a single behavior, concept, attribute, edge case, or constraint — not an open-ended design question. Bad shape: "How should the feature behave?" Good shape: "When the user submits an empty title, should the request be rejected with HTTP 400, accepted with a default title, or something else?" Offer concrete options plus a free-form catch-all whenever the answer space is predictable.
  2. Author immediately — the moment the user answers, write the snippet to disk (see 2b for which skill to route to). Do not wait for "enough" context; eager writes are the point. A snippet that is wrong on the first try is expected — the next question corrects it, and the user can read exactly where things stand after every step.
  3. Refine on the next question, which often extends or corrects what was just written.

One question per call, but drill as deep as the topic needs. "One question" governs the AskUserQuestion call, not the topic. If an answer is vague or leaves real choices open, the next question drills into the same topic — another iteration of the loop — until it is concrete enough to write. Stopping early and writing on top of a vague answer is worse than one more focused follow-up.

Fix contradictions in place. If a later answer refines or contradicts a snippet already on disk, edit that snippet right now. Never leave stale intent on disk; surface a non-trivial change in the next question.

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 20d ago Changed · +1 lines 8b5aaf29ad44
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 141 lines · 128 tokens per session scan A 453c525bfcdf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

add-feature is a skill published in the GitHub repository plainlang/plain-forge (79 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 2,562 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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