flow-next-features

# /flow-next:features - compounding user-POV drive knowledge A committed directory (`.flow/features/`, beside `.flow/memory/`) records, from the user's point of view, what each user-facing feature is, how a user reaches it, how an agent drives it, and which traps waste a verification run. QA and drive stop re-deriving navigation; work can reuse it to verify what it built. Split that keeps existing contracts intact: **map = how a user gets there (compounds). Spec = what to prove this time. Live drive = proof.** **Read [seed.md](seed.md) for seed-mode phases.** Feature file shape: [references/feature-entry-contract.md](references/feature-entry-contract.md). Doctor + proof: [references/doctor-and-proof.md](references/doctor-and-proof.md). Maintain (when `MODE=maintain`) executes [maintain.md](maintain.md). There is no flowctl features subcommand. The skill validates the four-H2 shape itself. The only flowctl calls are `memory list` for the `feature-map-drift` tag handoff and `memory add` (overlap-judged fold) for bug filing on the maintain path. ## Preamble **CRITICAL: flowctl is BUNDLED - NOT installed globally.** `which flowctl` will fail (expected). Define once; subsequent blocks (here and in `maintain.md`) use `$FLOWCTL`: ```bash FLOWCTL="${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}/scripts/flowctl" [ -x "$FLOWCTL" ] || FLOWCTL="<plugin-root>/scripts/flowctl" # <plugin-root> = the directory two levels above this skill's SKILL.md file (the harness gave you that file's absolute path when the skill loaded); substitute it literally [ -x "$FLOWCTL" ] || FLOWCTL=".flow/bin/flowctl" ``` **Inline skill (no `context: fork`)** - `plain-text numbered prompt` must stay reachable for the few facts seed cannot observe. Subagents cannot call plain-text numbered prompts (Claude Code issues #12890, #34592). On portable hosts without `plain-text numbered prompt`, fall back to a plain-text numbered prompt with a final `Other - type your own answer` option. For read-only scouts use `spawn_agent` with `agent_type: explorer` (or the host's generic read-only dispatch with Edit/Write disallowed when Explore is unavailable). ## Autonomy refusal `/flow-next:features` is user-invoked (or a host loop the human started). `flow --auto`, land, Ralph, and every other autonomous driver must not dispatch it. Scan the autonomy-marker **namespace**, never a fixed two-var list. Any hit refuses with the typed one-line report and stops. ```bash REFUSE=0 # Namespace scan over autonomy marker families. Never a fixed two-var list. # Families: FLOW_RALPH*, REVIEW_RECEIPT_PATH, any FLOW_*AUTONOM* name, # plus the mode:autonomous argument token. if env | grep -E '^(FLOW_RALPH|REVIEW_RECEIPT_PATH)' >/dev/null 2>&1; then REFUSE=1 fi if env | grep -E '^FLOW_[^=]*AUTONOM' >/dev/null 2>&1; then REFUSE=1 fi case " ${ARGUMENTS:-} " in *" mode:autonomous "*) REFUSE=1 ;; esac if [ "$REFUSE" = "1" ]; then echo 'FEATURES_VERDICT=REFUSED features=0 reason="autonomy marker present; /flow-next:features is user-invoked only"' exit 2 fi ``` ## Mode Detection State-resolved, cwd-relative to the repo root (`.flow/features/` under the current working directory). No `.flow/features/` directory, or explicit init intent (`--init`, `init`, `mode:seed`, `--seed` in `$ARGUMENTS`), routes to **seed**. A present map with no init intent routes to **maintain**. Consumers elsewhere gate on directory existence only: no config key, no registration. ```bash MODE="maintain" if [ ! -d ".flow/features" ]; then MODE="seed" fi RAW_ARGS="${ARGUMENTS:-}" for ARG in $RAW_ARGS; do case "$ARG" in --init|init|mode:seed|--seed) MODE="seed" ;; esac done printf 'MODE=%s\n' "$MODE" ``` | Mode | When | Behavior | |------|------|----------| | **seed** | `.flow/features/` absent, or explicit init intent | Interview the repo, prove each route with one live drive, write the index plus one file per proven feature. Explicit re-init over an existing map first requires `.flow/features/` to be CLEAN in git (`git status --porcelain -- .flow/features/` empty - uncommitted map edits could be overwritten or deleted unrecoverably; dirty ends `BLOCKED` asking to commit or stash). Then every pre-existing feature file is either re-proven this run (and re-indexed) or removed with the removal named in the verdict reason - a file neither re-proven nor removed cannot remain, and `SEEDED` over unproven leftovers has broken this. See [seed.md](seed.md). | | **maintain** | `.flow/features/` present and no init intent | Audit-shaped pass over the existing map. See [maintain.md](maintain.md). | ## Interaction Principles - **Interview the repo, not the user.** Surface, run command, drive mechanism, observable evidence, isolation: read them from the checkout. Ask only what cannot be observed. **Ask the user via plain text.** Render the options below as a numbered list `1.` … `N.`, followed by a final option `N+1. Other — type your own answer`. Print the question, then the numbered list, then **stop and wait for the user's next message before continuing**. Parse the reply as: a bare number `1`–`N+1` → that option; the literal text of an option label → that option; free text after `Other` → custom answer. - Ask **one question at a time** via `plain-text numbered prompt`. Never silently skip the question. - Prefer **multiple choice** when natural options exist. Lead with the recommended option and a one-sentence rationale. - Do **not** ask before evidence is gathered. Observation first, questions second. - Multi-surface repos (web + CLI) seed **per-surface feature groups** under one index. Enumeration is observation: each feature file carries `**Surface:**`; consumers select by surface + sub-feature IDs. ## Forbidden - **Dispatch by an autonomous driver.** `flow --auto`, land, Ralph, or any autonomy-marker hit: refuse. Cadence belongs to the human or their host loop. - **Editing product code in maintain.** Maintain's edit scope is `.flow/features/` plus harness scripts the map owns. Product bugs are reported and kept out of the PR. - **Merging.** Never `gh pr merge`, never `/flow-next:land`. A `changed` maintain PR stays open for the human or land. - **Driving an instance this run did not start.** Doctor names the owner. An orphaned port from a crashed prior run ends `BLOCKED`; reclaim is left to the human. Never kill by process name - kill what this run started. - **Setting `context: fork`** - plain-text numbered prompt must stay reachable. - **Duplicating the drive-skill ladder.** Live driving consumes [flow-next-drive](../flow-next-drive/SKILL.md) by pointer. A copy of CDP / agent-browser / Computer-Use actuation detail in this skill has broken this. - **Writing an undriven feature file.** Nothing enters the map that was not driven once. - **Treating the map as the intent source.** Specs and acceptance criteria stay the contract of what to prove. The map is how-to-drive only. ## Workflow 1. Run the autonomy-refusal fence. On refuse, the `FEATURES_VERDICT=REFUSED` line is the last line of the run. 2. Run the mode-detection fence. Honor `MODE`. 3. **seed** - execute [seed.md](seed.md) in order. 4. **maintain** - execute [maintain.md](maintain.md) in order. ## Terminal line Every run ends with exactly one terminal line, the last line of the response, with nothing after it: ```text FEATURES_VERDICT=<SEEDED|CLEAN|CHANGED|BLOCKED|REFUSED> features=<n> reason="<one line>" ``` | Verdict | When | |---------|------| | `SEEDED` | Seed landed at least one proven feature (partial seed names failures in `reason`) | | `CLEAN` | Maintain: no map/harness change, no branch, no PR | | `CHANGED` | Maintain: one PR of proven map/harness corrections only | | `BLOCKED` | Named blocker (orphaned port, concurrent isolation failure, source-reader collapse of the pass). Next run re-enters fresh. | | `REFUSED` | Autonomy marker, no drivable surface, no usable driver on this host, or broken checkout | Use `features=0` when nothing landed. `reason` is one line, quoted.