feature-scoping

feature-scoping is a skill for Claude Code from RBraga01/builder-product. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,332 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning skill that defines what a feature will and will not do before anyone estimates the engineering work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write user-facing scope, list exclusions, identify open questions, and create an estimate based on the written scope.
Why use it?
It prevents rough estimates from becoming accidental deadlines when the work is still unclear.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the builder-product plugin — 7 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to write user-facing scope, list exclusions, identify open questions, and create an estimate based on the written scope.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rbraga01/builder-product/feature-scoping
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 RBraga01/builder-product --skill feature-scoping
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RBraga01/builder-product

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install builder-product, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 3 agents.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,332 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 $0.00049 $0.01332
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00666
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00133

Measured 7d ago against content hash f0b3813135cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

feature-scoping 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/feature-scoping/SKILL.md · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Feature Scoping

The Law

A FEATURE ESTIMATED WITHOUT A WRITTEN SCOPE IS A COMMITMENT MADE AGAINST UNKNOWN WORK.
"Give me a rough number" produces a number that becomes a deadline before the scope is understood.
Written scope → time estimate against that scope → explicit commit IS a feature decision.

When to Use

Trigger before:

  • Any request for an engineering estimate
  • Any sprint planning that includes new functionality
  • Any stakeholder conversation that will produce a commitment
  • Any handoff from product to engineering

When NOT to Use

  • Time-boxed spikes where the output is knowledge, not a feature (the scope is "spend N days and report back")
  • Hotfixes with unambiguous scope (the scope is "fix the specific bug described in the issue")

The Scope Document

A scope document answers four questions before any estimate is given.

1 — What is being built?

User-visible behaviour only. Not implementation details.

The user can:
- [Action 1] — e.g., "filter search results by date range"
- [Action 2] — e.g., "export the filtered results as CSV"

The system will:
- [Behaviour 1] — e.g., "persist filter state across sessions"

2 — What is NOT being built in this scope?

Name the exclusions. Every implicit exclusion is a future dispute.

NOT included in this scope:
- [Exclusion 1] — e.g., "bulk export (> 1000 rows)"
- [Exclusion 2] — e.g., "real-time filter updates without page reload"

3 — What are the acceptance criteria?

Specific, testable conditions that define "done":

Given [state], when [action], then [observable result].

Acceptance criteria are the contract between product and engineering. Vague criteria ("works correctly") are not acceptance criteria.

4 — What are the dependencies and risks?

Dependencies:
- [Service/team/data that must be ready before this can ship]

Risks:
- [Known unknowns that could expand the estimate]

The Estimate Protocol

An estimate is only valid if it names the scope document it was made against.

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 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 · 158 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A f0b3813135cb

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feature-scoping is a skill published in the GitHub repository RBraga01/builder-product (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,332 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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