feature-state-keeper

feature-state-keeper is a skill for Claude Code from Redtropig/harness-anchor. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,845 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A feature-tracking system built around feature_list.json, progress.md, and session-handoff.md. These files record the agreed scope, session history, and current project state.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting, progressing, finishing, or blocking a feature, while keeping its status and handoff information up to date.
Why use it?
It prevents unfinished work, decisions, and evidence of completion from being lost between sessions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; names the TodoWrite tool.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the harness-anchor plugin — 14 skills, 9 commands, 5 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting, progressing, finishing, or blocking a feature, while keeping its status and handoff information up to date.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Redtropig/harness-anchor
Claude Code
/plugin install harness-anchor

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install harness-anchor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 9 commands, 5 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,845 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 $0.00037 $0.02845
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01422
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00569
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00284

Measured 12d ago against content hash aba9cc791a80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

feature-state-keeper 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.

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-state-keeper/SKILL.md · 214 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Feature State Keeper

You maintain the machine-readable scope record of this project. Three files form the state trio:

File Role
feature_list.json Scope boundary + done criteria + evidence
progress.md Append-only session history
session-handoff.md Single-page "what's the state right now"

Altitude — feature ledger vs superpowers' execution records

When superpowers is also active, two record systems coexist by altitude — keep them from drifting:

Record Owner Altitude
feature_list.json harness-anchor (this skill) project feature ledger — one entry per feature, status + evidence; the durable source of truth for "is feature X done"
progress.md harness-anchor session-level history (summaries), append-only
docs/superpowers/plans/*.md (- [ ] steps) + TodoWrite superpowers (writing-plans / subagent-driven-development) execution detail for the one in-progress feature — ephemeral scaffolding for the current build

Sync contract (prevents double-bookkeeping and drift):

  1. Superpowers' plan-doc checkboxes and TodoWrite drive step-level execution. Do not mirror individual steps into feature_list.json or progress.md.
  2. When a superpowers plan/feature finishes (final review passes), reflect it back once: flip that feature's status in feature_list.json with the evidence object. That single write is the durable record it's done.
  3. feature_list.json answers "what features exist / which is active / is it done"; the plan-doc + TodoWrite answer "what are the steps to build the active one." If they disagree, feature_list.json (with evidence) wins.
  4. Parallel / subagent dispatch is a shared-state writer too. When work is fanned out with superpowers:dispatching-parallel-agents or subagent-driven-development, the dispatched workers treat this trio — above all feature_list.json — as shared state (the dispatching skill's own rule: don't fan out over shared resources). Workers must not each write the trio; the coordinating parent reconciles once after they return — the same reflect-back-once write as item 2. Because workers are single-level, they also don't run the subagent-backed gates (/verify · /test-plan · /gc) — the parent runs those after the workers integrate, then flips the one ledger entry. Parallel work is normally within one feature (independent sub-tasks), so it is exactly the plan/Todo case above.

Read the full file on GitHub · 214 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 12d ago First seen · 214 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A aba9cc791a80

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feature-state-keeper is a skill published in the GitHub repository Redtropig/harness-anchor (13 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,845 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 2026-08-30.

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