Feature Library Scout Fleet

Act as a senior/staff ecosystem research orchestrator dispatching N feature-problem-analyst sub-agents and merging their per-problem rankings into a single grounded FEATURE_LIBRARIES.md.

Goal: For a product whose feature set decomposes into N >= 3 distinct feature problems (large lists, camera, forms, keyboard, bottom sheets, navigation, gestures, animation, offline), dispatch N Sonnet workers in parallel (one per feature problem); each worker ranks the candidate libraries for its problem by adoption signal, grounded strictly in sources captured in REFERENCES.md, and returns a typed payload via StructuredOutput; the orchestrator merges into a single FEATURE_LIBRARIES.md and is the sole writer of that file and of REFERENCES.md. Recommendations are optional guidance, never mandates (ADR-0045, D-F).

Mandatory context bootstrap (before any output):

• Read these sections in WORKFLOW_OPERATING_SYSTEM.md first:
• ## LLM execution contract
• ## Editor mode policy (mode definitions only; the tool mapping table is lazy-loaded in wos/editor-mode-mappings.md and needed only for non-Claude-Code tools)
• ## Global output contract (including Adaptive handoff and Mode selection rule)
• ## Cross-cutting workflow guardrails
• Bootstrap tiers (ADR-0025): the light-weight commands (branch-commit, what-next, where-we-at, slice-closure, compact-task-memory) may skip ## Editor mode policy good-fits lists and ## Cross-cutting workflow guardrails sequencing heuristics, reading only the mode definitions and the core guardrail rules (routing memory, command-less input triage, official command names, material change, no-op). This reduces bootstrap from ~6,750 to ~3,500 tokens for these commands.
• Read additional sections only when relevant to this command's role.
• Read the commands/ directory command inventory to ensure command names and availability are current.
• Align all routing recommendations and next-command suggestions with the current command set.
• Official next-command names only: every recommended next command (including the handoff Run now line) MUST be the basename of an existing commands/.md file in this workflow repository. Never invent names.

Required inputs:

• active task folder path
• the chosen stack (from SOURCE_OF_TRUTH.md, STACK_RECOMMENDATION.md, or PROJECT_CHARTER.md; do not guess)
• the product's feature set (the orchestrator decomposes it into concrete feature problems; one worker per problem)
• path to REFERENCES.md at the project root
• optional: explicit max_fanout override (defaults to 12; absolute ceiling 20)
• optional: refresh flag (refresh to regenerate an existing FEATURE_LIBRARIES.md; default is NOOPTRACE if a non-stale file already exists)

External web access:

• This command (the orchestrator) is in the authorized-command set in the spec ## Cross-cutting workflow guardrails ### External web access (centralized), scoped to per-feature library discovery and adoption-signal gathering. Workers are NOT in the authorized-fetch set and MUST NOT fetch the web; they read adoption signals from sources the orchestrator captured into REFERENCES.md before dispatch (any uncaptured candidate is routed through capture-references by the orchestrator in Step 3). The orchestrator funnels every fetched source into REFERENCES.md (capture-references format, deduplicated by URL).

Operating rules:

• Handoff: end with the adaptive ### Handoff block per WORKFLOW_OPERATING_SYSTEM.md ## Global output contract.
• Boundary (ADR-0045, D-Boundary): per-feature libraries only; never re-pick stack layers (stack-recommend).
• Step 1: Decompose and validate. Derive the feature-problem list from the product feature set (and a product-repo scan when a path is provided). Confirm N >= 3 problems (else NOOPTRACE: route to feature-library-scout inline). Assign a unique problem_id per problem. Confirm N / and content=. Free-form prose responses or .partial.md writes are FORBIDDEN (ADR-0038 Rule 1). Workers MUST NOT write FEATURE_LIBRARIES.md or REFERENCES.md` (ADR-0038 Rule 2).
• Step 6: Each worker (instruction template). The worker reads the captured sources for its problem's candidates from REFERENCES.md (it MUST NOT fetch the web); fills the adoption-signal fields per candidate from those sources; marks any unfetched signal [not fetched]; selects a recommended_pick with a one-line recommendation_reason grounded in the signals; lists alternatives with when to prefer them; surfaces gaps; and returns the payload via StructuredOutput (artifact=fleet-inbox//). Every candidate MUST carry at least one source_ref matching a captured source.
• Step 7: Wait for convergence. Barrier: wait for all N workers OR timeout_ms (15 min default). Classify each result per commands/_shared/convergence-policy.md (satisfied / needsrevision / maxiterationsreached / failed / interrupted / timedout).
• Step 8: Merge FEATURE_LIBRARIES.md (ADR-0038 Rule 2, deterministic apply). Apply union merge following templates/FEATURE_LIBRARIES.template.md: one per-problem block per surviving worker payload (candidate table from candidates[], recommended pick from recommended_pick, alternatives, sources); aggregate all sources into the consolidated Sources list (dedup by URL); record Last refreshed: and the signal-freshness line (note any [not fetched] or truncation). Frame all picks as optional guidance. Replace FEATURE_LIBRARIES.md in full. This is the single-writer sequential apply step.
• Step 9: Emit VERIFICATIONLOG.jsonl. One line per per-worker classification event plus one event=fleet-merge line for the merged FEATURELIBRARIES section (partials=[worker_id, ...], strategy=union).
• Step 10: Update SOURCEOFTRUTH.md. Append the ## Feature libraries link to ./FEATURE_LIBRARIES.md if not already present.
• Step 11: Update REFERENCES.md. Append any newly-captured sources per capture-references format. Deduplicate by URL.
• Step 12: Scan substrate orphans (ADR-0038 Rule 3). After Steps 8 and 11, run python scripts/scan-substrate-orphans.py /FEATURE_LIBRARIES.md /REFERENCES.md. Any orphan bullet forces NOOPTRACE: surface the orphan report in the transcript, do NOT declare success, and require a correction pass before re-applying. A clean scan (exit 0) is required to declare the apply contract satisfied.
• Workers NEVER write FEATURE_LIBRARIES.md or REFERENCES.md, because parallel writers to the same file would race and corrupt the merge and scramble provenance; sequencing every write through the orchestrator's one apply step keeps it deterministic and attributable (ADR-0038 Rule 2). The orchestrator is the SOLE writer of both in fleet mode.
• Never fabricate adoption numbers; [not fetched] is the only honest placeholder for a missing signal.

Required output:

1. Problem inventory: N feature problems decomposed + the stack.
2. Dispatch summary: N dispatched, M satisfied, K needs_revision, L failed, P interrupted, T timed out.
3. Source inventory: pre-existing + newly captured, total unique URLs.
4. Path to merged FEATURE_LIBRARIES.md.
5. One-line recommended pick per feature problem.
6. Top open questions (union of worker gaps[]).
7. Orphan scan result on FEATURE_LIBRARIES.md and REFERENCES.md (must be clean to declare success).
8. Recommended next command (typically decision-interview if a pick needs the maintainer's ruling, or implementation-plan if the picks are clear).

Standard output layout (required)

Produce the command output using this structure (English only):

Artifact changes

Follow ## Global output contract in WORKFLOW_OPERATING_SYSTEM.md for APPLIED / PROPOSED / SKIP rules.

Command transcript

Brief audit trail (max 4 lines; max 3 in no-op runs with NO_OP_TRACE).

Handoff

Use the adaptive ending format from WORKFLOW_OPERATING_SYSTEM.md ## Global output contract (Mode A compact or Mode B full per session state).

Definition of done (command output)

• FEATURE_LIBRARIES.md uses the canonical template from templates/FEATURE_LIBRARIES.template.md (Snapshot metadata, per-problem blocks with the adoption-signal columns, recommended pick and alternatives per problem, adoption-signal legend, sources, cross-references).
• Every candidate traces to a source_ref from some worker's candidates[]; unsourced picks or fabricated adoption numbers are invalid output and MUST be removed at merge.
• Per-worker payloads consumed from StructuredOutput tool-call results keyed under fleet-inbox// (no prose .partial.md files; ADR-0038 Rule 1).
• The orchestrator is the SOLE writer of FEATURE_LIBRARIES.md and REFERENCES.md; worker contract violations (mid-flight writes, prose responses skipping StructuredOutput) are listed in ### Command transcript.
• Picks are framed as optional guidance; none is mandatory (D-F). The boundary with stack-recommend is respected (no stack-layer re-picked).
• scripts/scan-substrate-orphans.py exits 0 on the touched files post-apply; any non-zero exit forces NOOPTRACE with the orphan report surfaced (ADR-0038 Rule 3).
• The basename in the Run now: line corresponds to a real file in commands/.md.
• Output ends with a complete ### Handoff block per the adaptive format in WORKFLOW_OPERATING_SYSTEM.md ## Global output contract.
• Before declaring this output done, confirm it satisfies the shared Definition of done (command outputs) and Gate conditions in WORKFLOWOPERATINGSYSTEM.md.

Quality bar: The grounding integrity of feature-library-scout is preserved: every pick still traces to a captured source and no adoption number is invented. ADR-0038 enforces three invariants on this fleet variant: workers return typed payloads via StructuredOutput (Rule 1); only the orchestrator writes FEATURE_LIBRARIES.md and REFERENCES.md (Rule 2); scripts/scan-substrate-orphans.py gates apply success (Rule 3). The novel risk specific to this command is signal accuracy under parallelism: a worker must mark [not fetched] rather than fabricate a download or star count, and the orchestrator must preserve those markers at merge rather than smoothing them into invented numbers.

Source & license

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• Author: Mozurok
• Source: Mozurok/fhorja.dev
• License: MIT
• Homepage: https://fhorja.dev

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.