Feature Changelog

Feature Changelog Skill

Owns docs/ai-context/FEATURE_CHANGELOG.md: a registry of product behavior used to decide whether requested work already exists, extends something, or is new. It records meaningful business logic only — never commits, renames, formatting, or refactors without behavior change. The whole file is English.

When to Use

• init with no docs/ai-context/FEATURE_CHANGELOG.md → baseline discovery (references/baseline-analysis.md).
• Before any docs/ai-context/TASK_PLAN.md is created or accepted → feature search (references/feature-detection.md).
• New IDs → references/feature-id-rules.md.
• After a valid Codex APPROVED, during finalization → registry update.
• Any registry edit → references/index-validation.md.

Inputs

• docs/ai-context/FEATURE_CHANGELOG.md (or its absence), the task description/plan, docs/ai-context/PROJECT_CONTEXT.md, the repository itself.
• Deterministic helpers: bin/frappe-workflow feature search <query>, feature next-id --type <type> --module <module>, feature validate-index.

Outputs

• Search verdicts for planning: already implemented / related (extension) / new — always confirmed by inspecting actual files, never by text similarity alone.
• Registry entries following the template format in templates/project/FEATURE_CHANGELOG.md in the plugin (Index row + detailed entry grouped by module).

Preconditions

• Registry updates (beyond baseline) happen only in finalization — after implementation complete, validations and tests passed, and a valid APPROVED with matching fingerprint.

Stopping Conditions

• bin/frappe-workflow feature validate-index passes after every edit.
• Baseline: all High-confidence entries written; Medium noted; Low listed for user confirmation — then stop.

Prohibited

• Updating the registry during implementation or review rounds.
• Calculating IDs by guessing — only feature next-id output.
• Changing an existing ID, ever (renames keep the ID).
• Statuses other than Active, Deprecated, Replaced, Removed.
• Inventing feature history or dates (unknown dates stay Unknown).

Update Rules at Finalization

• New capability → new entry (Index row + detail, next deterministic ID).
• Extension → same ID: update Last Updated, Behavior/Main Files when needed, add a Change History dated entry.
• Bugfix of an existing feature → Change History entry on that feature; an independent BUG- entry only when important, independent, and not clearly owned by an existing feature.
• Replacement → old entry Status: Replaced + Replaced By:; new entry may carry Replaces:.

Shared Rules

shared-workflow-rules.md, file-lifecycle.md.