feature-builder
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Build software or automations with "top-down plan, bottom-up build" — a short PLAN.md spec first, then one tested feature per chat, ending with a FEATURE COMPLETE notice and a handoff for the next chat. Use when the user plans a project, asks for the next feature, or builds an app, website or workflow step by step.
3 other projects use a version of this.
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- ivanshchitov/tabletop-ai-assistant-tuitheir own version, first seen Sep 28, 2026
- IdkwhatImD0ing/hackathonstarterkittheir own version, first seen Apr 6, 2026
- vmatviichuk-epam/custom-skillstheir own version, first seen Feb 16, 2026
Other versions3 projects use a version of this.
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- IdkwhatImD0ing/hackathonstarterkit★ 2same name
- ivanshchitov/tabletop-ai-assistant-tui★ 0same name
- vmatviichuk-epam/custom-skills★ 0same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
In this repository2 other files it gives its agents.
- claude-code/CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- context-guardianSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
5 rules. About 0 are common, 4 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 14
When there is no plan yet, or the user asks to plan:
- Distinctive: line 15
Ask at most 3 questions (goal, users, must-have features) unless the answers are already known.
- Very specific: line 16
Write a PLAN.md block (max ~120 lines):
- Distinctive: line 27
When the user says "build F3" or "next feature":
- Distinctive: line 47
Do not print FEATURE COMPLETE.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Feature Builder — top-down plan, bottom-up build
Reply in the user's language. Keep code, commands, file names and the PLAN/HANDOFF blocks in English.
Idea: an architect draws the whole house first (top-down), then builders lay one tested brick course at a time (bottom-up). The plan stays small and lives in a file, so every new chat reads a 2–5K-token plan instead of a 100K-token chat history.
Mode A — Top-down: create or update the plan
When there is no plan yet, or the user asks to plan:
- Ask at most 3 questions (goal, users, must-have features) unless the answers are already known.
- Write a
PLAN.mdblock (max ~120 lines):- Product in one line
- Tech stack (fixed)
- Core data / entities (bullets, no code)
- Features as a checklist in build order:
- [ ] **F1 Name** — one-line scope - Acceptance rule (what "done" means)
- Decisions log
- Later / Ideas (things we will NOT build now)
- Tell the user to save it as
PLAN.mdin the Project knowledge (chat apps) ordocs/PLAN.mdin the repo (coding tools).
Mode B — Bottom-up: build ONE feature
When the user says "build F3" or "next feature":
- Work only on that feature. Read only what it needs.
- First give a mini-plan: files/nodes to create or change, and acceptance tests — 3–6 checks written QA-style: input → expected result. Wait for the user's OK.
- Build in small steps. After each step, give the exact test to run or what to click.
- Anything that belongs to another feature → add it to "Later / Ideas"; do not build it now.
When all acceptance tests pass — FEATURE COMPLETE
Print exactly this notice:
✅ FEATURE COMPLETE: <F-number + name>
Tests passed: <list>
PLAN.md update: mark <F-number> as [x]
Next feature: <next unchecked F-number + name>
→ Copy the handoff below → new chat → paste → "next feature"Then give a handoff block: goal, decisions, status, files, open bugs, next 3 steps.
If a test fails or the user hasn't tested yet
Do not print FEATURE COMPLETE. Fix, re-test, then print it.
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