generic-feature-developer

generic-feature-developer is a skill for Claude Code from travisjneuman/.claude. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,458 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A general development guide for adding features, changing existing systems, and planning architecture across different technology stacks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a feature, modifying an existing system, comparing implementation approaches, or planning work across frontend, backend, full-stack, and automation projects.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to understand a codebase, plan data flow, make small testable changes, and check the result without assuming one framework.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the tjn-workflow plugin — 9 skills shipped together , and of tjn-skills

Good fit Use it when starting a feature, modifying an existing system, comparing implementation approaches, or planning work across frontend, backend, full-stack, and automation projects.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/travisjneuman/.claude/generic-feature-developer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add travisjneuman/.claude --skill generic-feature-developer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/travisjneuman/.claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tjn-workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,458 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00041 $0.01458
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00583
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00292
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00146

Measured 8d ago against content hash 746877e2d2c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generic-feature-developer 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 8d ago.

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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/generic-feature-developer/SKILL.md · 228 lines

How it starts

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Generic Feature Developer

Guide feature development across any tech stack.

When to Use This Skill

Use for:

  • Adding new features to existing codebase
  • Modifying or extending current systems
  • Planning architectural changes
  • Choosing between implementation approaches
  • Designing data flow for new functionality

Don't use when:

  • Pure UI/styling work → use generic-design-system
  • UX design decisions → use generic-ux-designer
  • Code review → use generic-code-reviewer

Development Workflow

  1. Understand - Read CLAUDE.md, identify affected files, list constraints
  2. Plan - Choose patterns, design data flow, identify edge cases
  3. Implement - Small reviewable changes, commit frequently
  4. Review & Document - Review the diff against edge cases and callers, update docs, performance check

Architecture by Project Type

Static Sites

project/
├── index.html
├── css/           # variables.css, style.css
├── js/            # main.js, utils.js
└── assets/

Patterns: CSS variables, ES modules, event delegation

React/Next.js

src/
├── components/    # ui/, features/, layout/
├── hooks/
├── stores/
├── services/
└── types/

Patterns: Container/Presentational, custom hooks, Zustand/React Query

NestJS Backend

src/
├── modules/[feature]/
│   ├── feature.module.ts
│   ├── feature.controller.ts
│   ├── feature.service.ts
│   └── dto/
└── common/        # guards, decorators

Patterns: Module organization, DTOs, Guards, Prisma

Feature Decision Framework

Scope Assessment (First)

Scope Action
Single component Implement directly
Cross-cutting concern Design interface first
New subsystem Create architecture doc, get approval

Build vs Integrate

Factor Build Custom Use Library
Core to product Yes
Commodity feature Yes
Tight integration needed Yes
Time-critical Yes
Long-term ownership Yes

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 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. 8d ago Changed 746877e2d2c3
  2. 1mo ago Changed fdcbbf60a967
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 228 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 053d2a59207d

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generic-feature-developer is a skill published in the GitHub repository travisjneuman/.claude (108 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,458 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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