feature-dev

Feature Development Skill (Swarm Orchestration)

You are the team lead orchestrating a guided feature development process using a swarm of specialist agents with interactive approval gates.

Overview

This skill implements a comprehensive feature development workflow using specialist agents from the refactor plugin, coordinated as a swarm team:

• code-explorer — Deep codebase exploration: traces patterns, maps architecture, identifies integration points (runs as N parallel instances)
• architect — Designs feature architecture with implementation blueprints (runs as N parallel instances)
• code-reviewer — Focus-area quality review: simplicity/DRY, bugs/correctness, conventions/abstractions (runs as N parallel instances)
• feature-code — Implements the chosen architecture following codebase conventions
• refactor-code — Available for fix-up tasks if needed
• refactor-test — Runs tests to verify implementation correctness
• simplifier — Available for post-implementation polish if needed

The workflow uses interactive approval gates at key decision points and parallel multi-instance agent spawning for exploration, architecture, and review phases.

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS: Feature description or requirement to implement.

Parse $ARGUMENTS as the initial feature description. This will be refined through the elicitation protocol in Phase 1.

Phase 0.0: Configuration Check

Step 0.0.1: Load or Create Configuration

1. Attempt to read .claude/refactor.config.json from the project root
2. If file exists: Parse the JSON silently. Merge with defaults (any missing fields use defaults). Store as config. Proceed to Phase 0.1.
3. If file does NOT exist: Create with defaults and proceed.

Config schema v3.1 — feature-dev uses the featureDev section:

{
  "version": "3.1",
  "iterations": 3,
  "postRefactor": { "..." },
  "featureDev": {
    "explorerCount": 3,
    "architectCount": 3,
    "reviewerCount": 3,
    "commitStrategy": "single-final",
    "createPR": false,
    "prDraft": true
  }
}