Shep New Feature

Shep New Feature is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by shep-ai in shep.

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Install Shep New Feature

Copy Shep New Feature into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/shep-ai/shep/tree/main/.claude/skills/shep-kit-new-feature ~/.claude/skills/shep-kit-new-feature

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/shep-ai/shep.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/shep-kit-new-feature/SKILL.md in shep-ai/shep
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/shep-kit-new-feature
Collection: One of 19 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 2226 skills

What Shep New Feature does

Shep New Feature creates a spec branch and scaffolds a new feature specification directory. Use it when starting a new feature, functionality, or enhancement in the Shep spec-driven workflow.

Shep New Feature is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Shep New Feature comes from a repository tagged agent-orchestration, agentic-ai, ai, ai-agents and ai-code-generation.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Create New Feature Specification

Start spec-driven development by creating a feature branch and specification directory.

Full workflow guide: docs/development/spec-driven-workflow.md

Phase Lifecycle

Requirements → Research → Planning → Implementation → Complete
    ↓             ↓           ↓            ↓            ↓
 spec.yaml   research.yaml plan.yaml   tasks.yaml   all files
    ↓             ↓           ↓            ↓            ↓
 spec.md     research.md   plan.md     tasks.md     (auto-generated)

CRITICAL: Each phase MUST update the Phase status field before proceeding.

IMPORTANT: Edit YAML files, not Markdown.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Shep New Feature

What else does shep-ai publish alongside Shep New Feature?
Shep New Feature is one of 19 skills that DirSkills catalogs from shep-ai/shep, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Architecture Reviewer, Commit PR and Cross-Validate Artifacts. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Shep New Feature does, and is maintained by shep-ai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the shep-ai/shep page.
How does Shep New Feature compare to other Automation skills?
Shep New Feature ranks #1517 by stars among the 2226 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Shep New Feature against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.