# Feature Delivery > Take a substantial production feature from an idea or selected behavior through specification, coordinated implementation, integration, and staged user availability. Use when delivery spans meaningful product or architecture decisions, multiple repositories or subsystems, important data or security boundaries, client and backend compatibility, or controlled rollout. Do not use for UI direction exploration, bounded feature spikes, hardening-only work, deployment of an already completed build, small fixes, or ordinary isolated changes. - Skill: `pdugan20/feature-delivery` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 9 files) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add pdugan20/feature-delivery` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/pdugan20/feature-delivery/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Security - License: MIT - Author: pdugan20 (https://skillmd.com/u/pdugan20) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/pdugan20/feature-delivery --- # Feature Delivery ## Core principle Coordinate the whole path to users, not only the code change. Establish evidence and contracts before prescribing architecture, then report source, environment, distribution, and exposure states independently. ## Delivery process 1. **Qualify the outcome.** Confirm that this is production feature delivery. Route UI comparison to `code-native-ui-ideation`, a bounded learning experiment to the applicable feature-spike skill. Handle a dedicated hardening or release-readiness request directly under repository production instructions or a separately requested release-readiness capability. Handle an ordinary isolated change directly. 2. **Investigate before designing.** Read applicable instructions and inspect the current behavior, architecture, tests, repositories, environments, release path, and uncommitted work. Do not infer a backend boundary, data contract, or deployment topology from the request alone. If the relevant repositories are unavailable, present architecture options only as hypotheses and stop at the discovery plan; do not label one recommended or sequence its implementation until evidence supports it. 3. **Establish the delivery contract.** Resolve only decisions that materially change product behavior, architecture, data, security, compatibility, or rollout. Capture the outcome, non-goals, acceptance criteria, impact map, selected design, risks, and release gates using [references/specification.md](references/specification.md). Use [assets/feature-delivery-template.md](assets/feature-delivery-template.md) when a durable handoff is useful; a bounded single-repository feature can keep the same fields in the working plan or conversation. Get the user's approval for unresolved material choices before implementation. 4. **Map boundaries and order.** For more than one repository, service, environment, schema, or distributed client version, follow [references/cross-repository-delivery.md](references/cross-repository-delivery.md). Publish producer contracts before consumers depend on them. Define backward/forward compatibility, migrations, branch and environment relationships, integration evidence, gating, and rollback per layer. 5. **Select the execution mode.** Record whether the work will use proportional inline execution, explicitly requested and available Superpowers, an available agent team, or a mixed/human handoff. Verify named external skills and delegation capabilities are discoverable in the current runtime before selecting them; documentation or user intent alone does not prove availability. If a requested mode is unavailable, name the missing capabilities and offer proportional inline execution or a pause for installation as explicit choices. Do not impersonate a missing skill or silently switch modes. Follow [references/execution-modes.md](references/execution-modes.md). Activating this skill never implicitly authorizes strict TDD, worktrees, agent teams, branch finishing, or other explicit-only skills. Every delivery plan must contain an explicit `Execution mode: — ` line; silence is not a selection. 6. **Plan dependency-ordered checkpoints.** Make each checkpoint independently verifiable and name its owner, repository, inputs, outputs, tests, and exit evidence. Parallelize only independent work after interfaces and ownership are stable. 7. **Implement and verify proportionally.** Work in coherent, inspectable batches. Add tests according to regression, data, security, concurrency, and platform risk. Exercise user-visible behavior in the real browser, relevant simulator, or device. Run focused checks throughout and each repository's broader production or CI gate before claiming source readiness. 8. **Integrate and stage availability.** Verify real contracts and supported version combinations, not only mocks and per-repository tests. Follow [references/staged-rollout.md](references/staged-rollout.md) for development, backend deployment, internal distribution, TestFlight or preview channels, exposure, observation, rollback, and temporary-gate cleanup. 9. **Report multidimensional status.** Report each independently true state, attached evidence, blocker, next gate, and authorization needed. Never use a merged change, green client suite, deployed backend, distributed binary, or enabled flag as a synonym for “available to users.” ## Boundaries - Preserve unrelated user work and follow repository-specific instructions. - Keep private product plans, credentials, production data, and personal data out of specifications, prompts, fixtures, logs, and reports. - Identify targets as local, development, staging, internal distribution, or production before mutation. Prefer emulators, synthetic fixtures, test users, and development services while resolving behavior. - Do not deploy, publish a build, change live configuration, mutate production data, merge, push, or open a pull request without the authorization required by the active working agreement. - For visual decisions, work in code. Do not use ImageGen, generated mockups, or a detached option picker unless the user explicitly requests them.