new-feature

new-feature is a skill for Claude Code from SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices. It costs 22 tokens per session (455 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for starting a software feature by creating planning documents, a retrospective file, and a separate Git branch.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when beginning a feature to create its proposal and retrospective, make the branch, run syntax checks, and inspect the project’s CI setup.
Why use it?
It removes the need to remember the project’s required setup before writing code and helps keep feature work separate from the main codebase.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the sdlc-core plugin — 10 skills, 5 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when beginning a feature to create its proposal and retrospective, make the branch, run syntax checks, and inspect the project’s CI setup.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stevegjones/ai-first-sdlc-practices/new-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 SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices --skill new-feature
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdlc-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 5 agents, 2 hooks.

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 new-feature

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/stevegjones/ai-first-sdlc-practices/new-feature/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/stevegjones/ai-first-sdlc-practices/new-feature)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/stevegjones/ai-first-sdlc-practices/new-feature"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/stevegjones/ai-first-sdlc-practices/new-feature/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for new-feature

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 455 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
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 $0.00022 $0.00455
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00228
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00046

Measured 10d ago against content hash 7dfa41645c23, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

new-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 10d 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.

plugins/sdlc-core/skills/new-feature/SKILL.md · 65 lines

What it actually says

New Feature Setup

Create a new feature with all required artifacts. Arguments:

  • $0 — Feature number (e.g., 70)
  • $1 — Feature name for branch (e.g., plugin-migration)
  • $2+ — Optional title (defaults to name with spaces)

Steps

  1. Create the feature proposal at docs/feature-proposals/$0-$1.md

    • Use the template from templates/proposal.md
    • Replace placeholders:
      • FEATURE_NUMBER$0
      • FEATURE_NAME$1
      • FEATURE_TITLE$2 (or derive from $1 by replacing hyphens with spaces)
      • CREATED_DATE → today's date (YYYY-MM-DD)
  2. Create the retrospective at retrospectives/$0-$1.md

  3. Create the feature branch

git checkout main
git pull
git checkout -b feature/$1
  1. Run syntax validation
/sdlc-core:validate --syntax

If the validate skill is not available (e.g., first-time setup), run the inline fallback:

python -c "
import ast, pathlib
for f in pathlib.Path('.').rglob('*.py'):
    if '.venv' in str(f): continue
    ast.parse(f.read_text())
print('Syntax OK')
"
  1. Check for CI/CD (first feature only)

If .github/workflows/ does not exist or contains no workflow files:

No CI/CD workflow found. Run /sdlc-core:setup-ci to add GitHub Actions validation.
  1. Report the created files and branch name to the user.
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. 10d ago First seen · 65 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 7dfa41645c23

Subscribe to this mod's changes

new-feature is a skill published in the GitHub repository SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices (41 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 455 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.