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What problem does it solve?

This Skill creates the correct starting structure for a new Disciplined Agentic Engineering (DAE) feature so the pipeline can proceed from a well-formed Ready contract and tracked work, with guardrailed setup for slug, numbering, branch, and validation metadata.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • New feature initialization: Creates a feature directory layout with the required feature.md (Foundation Design schema) without pre-generating downstream artifacts like progress/spec/plan.
  • From-discuss, standalone, and onboarding intake modes: Supports initializing from a feature_intake payload, running an intake interview when no payload is present, and reverse-engineering existing features during onboarding.
  • Guardrailed validation and routing: Enforces slug rules, autonomy/status constraints, relevant ADR existence checks, prevents collisions by redirecting to the right follow-up skill (feature-edit/promote/done rejection), and surfaces scope decomposition guidance.

Quick Start

Ask the AI to initialize a new feature for the DAE pipeline by creating the feature folder, feature.md, branch, and tracker entry.

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

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Name: feature-init
Download link: https://github.com/swingerman/disciplined-agentic-engineering/archive/main.zip#feature-init

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