features

MANDATORY PREPARATION

Invoke /product-thinking — it contains product principles and the Context Gathering Protocol. Follow the protocol before proceeding — if no product context exists yet, you MUST run /teach-acumen first.

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Mindset: Know what you've built before deciding what to build next. Features without owners decay. Features without metrics are assumptions.

Behavior

When called with a specific feature or area: Add or update that entry. Ask the user about its current status, who it serves, and how they know it's working.

When called without argument: Scan the codebase and refresh the full inventory. Cross-reference with personas from .acumen/personas.md if available.

Research Process

1. Read .acumen.md for product context — strategy, metrics, constraints
2. Read .acumen/features.md for existing inventory
3. Read .acumen/personas.md for persona alignment (if exists)
4. Scan the codebase:
   • Route handlers and pages — each is likely a feature surface
   • API endpoints — capabilities exposed
   • Database models — entities the product manages
   • Navigation and menus — user-facing feature organization
   • Feature flags or config — features in rollout or gated
5. For each feature, determine:
   • Which persona it serves (or if it's orphaned)
   • Current status (shipping, beta, deprecated, broken, unused)
   • Key metric (how you know it's delivering value — or that no one is measuring)
   • Owner (who's responsible — or if no one is)

Output

Write to .acumen/features.md:

# Feature Inventory

_Last updated: [date]_

## Feature Map

| Feature | Serves Persona | Status | Key Metric | Owner | Notes |
|---------|---------------|--------|------------|-------|-------|
| [name] | [persona] | [shipping/beta/deprecated/unknown] | [metric or "unmeasured"] | [owner or "unowned"] | [notes] |

## Feature Areas

Group features into coherent areas. For each area:

### [Area Name]
- **Purpose**: [Why this area exists]
- **Features**: [List of features in this area]
- **Health**: [Overall assessment — thriving, stable, neglected, bloated]

## Gaps

[Features that personas need but don't exist yet. Features that strategy calls for but haven't been built. Reference personas and strategy from .acumen.md.]

## Decay Watch

[Features showing signs of neglect: unowned, unmeasured, no recent commits, known bugs unfixed. These aren't necessarily bad — but they need a conscious decision: invest, maintain, or kill.]

Maintenance

When refreshing the inventory:

• Flag features with no metric as "unmeasured" — not an error, but a risk
• Flag features with no owner as "unowned" — someone should consciously adopt or deprecate
• Check for features that exist in code but aren't in the inventory
• Check for inventory entries that no longer exist in code
• Cross-reference with personas — features that serve no persona are candidates for removal

NEVER:

• List implementation details as features — "uses Redis caching" is not a feature
• Invent metrics that aren't actually tracked
• Skip the Decay Watch — it's the most actionable section
• Pad the inventory with trivial entries — if it's not a meaningful capability, leave it out