Feature Status Registry Pattern

When to Use

Use this pattern in derived projects (not the template itself) to track which framework features have been implemented, adapted, or deferred. This is especially useful when:

• A derived project adopts the framework incrementally
• Multiple developers need visibility into what's been built vs. what's planned
• The project needs to track divergence from the template's capabilities

Pattern: FEATURE_STATUS.md

Create a FEATURE_STATUS.md file at the project root with this structure:

# Feature Status

> Tracks implementation status of framework capabilities in this project.
> Last updated: YYYY-MM-DD

## Status Legend

| Status | Meaning |
|--------|---------|
| DONE | Fully implemented and tested |
| IN PROGRESS | Currently being built |
| PLANNED | Scheduled for a future sprint |
| ADAPTED | Implemented with project-specific modifications |
| DEFERRED | Intentionally postponed (with rationale) |
| N/A | Not applicable to this project |

## Core Framework

| Feature | Status | Notes |
|---------|--------|-------|
| Quality gate | DONE | |
| Capture pipeline | DONE | |
| Multi-agent review | DONE | |
| Education gates | PLANNED | Sprint 3 |
| Lineage tracking | ADAPTED | Simplified for single-repo |

## Project-Specific Features

| Feature | Status | Notes |
|---------|--------|-------|
| [feature name] | [status] | [notes] |

Guidelines

1. Update at sprint boundaries — not after every commit
2. Include rationale for DEFERRED — prevents the same question from being asked repeatedly
3. Track ADAPTED features separately — these are intentional divergences from the template
4. Link to ADRs where adaptation decisions are documented
5. Keep it flat — resist the urge to nest categories deeply; a single table per section is sufficient

Relationship to Other Tracking

• FEATURE_STATUS.md tracks what is implemented (high-level capability view)
• BUILD_STATUS.md tracks current session work (ephemeral, session-scoped)
• framework-lineage.yaml tracks structural drift from the template (file-level)
• memory/lessons/adoption-log.md tracks patterns evaluated from external projects