A lane's pipeline map only ever moved when a skill remembered to call `ccam stage`, and the ship-feature template shipped with no detection rules at all — so a lane driven by Superpowers skills sat at whatever stage it last declared, and the `gates` node was never declared by anything. Detection (`detect` rules on each node) now covers the Superpowers skill invocations and the `ccam`/`gh` commands the ship-feature-lane skill actually runs. It stays a safety net, not the mechanism: forward-only, never `done`, never overriding a declaration. Two rules were deliberately left out — `git diff` on `review` (this repo's own tests record it pinning a lane at `review` on a real session) and anything on `merged`/`done`. Stage vocabulary grows to 50 names over the same 16 nodes, following Shipyard's PHASES shape: sub-states like `migration-collision`, `e2e-scoped` and `gate-blocked` say WHY a lane sits on a node without the map growing a node per reason. Every alias has a source — the skill declares it, `default.json` uses it, or Shipyard's PHASES lists it. Two silent failures fixed along the way: - `lane.stages` is keyed by the raw declared string, so a stage declared under an alias lost its `--evidence` and rendered amber instead of green. `stageRecords` resolves each key onto its node. - `ccam stage <typo>` stored fine and then rendered nowhere. It now warns on stderr while still exiting 0. `ccam lanes pipeline` closes the gap that made all of this invisible: a lane could only be assigned a template at creation, and no screen in the web UI offers the choice, so every lane added from "+ Add lane" was stuck on `default`'s 8 nodes. An unknown template id is now refused rather than silently falling back to `default` on read. Also merges the repo's own `ship-feature` skill into the Superpowers workflow: it delegates planning/TDD/review/verification instead of restating them, and declares a stage at each phase.
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name, description
| name | description |
|---|---|
| ship-feature | Implement a feature safely end-to-end in this repository. Use when adding or changing functionality across backend, frontend, or MCP with required verification and documentation updates. Drives the Superpowers workflow skills and declares each phase with `ccam stage` so the dashboard's pipeline map follows along. |
Ship Feature
Use this workflow for medium or large implementation tasks. It does not restate how to plan, test, or review — the Superpowers skills own that. What lives here is the phase order, this repository's own rules, and the stage declaration at each boundary.
For a feature inside a CCAM lane, use ship-feature-lane instead: it adds
the branch/e2e/QC/senior-gate/PR half this skill deliberately leaves out.
Declaring the stage
Each phase below starts with ccam stage <node>, which is what puts the phase
on the lane's pipeline map. The nodes are the default template's:
intake → plan → implement → tests → review → gate → ship → done.
ccam stage needs a lane owning the current directory. If it reports no lane,
this repo was never adopted (ccam lanes add --cwd $(pwd) fixes it) — carry on
with the workflow and skip the stage calls; they are reporting, not control
flow. Never skip a phase because its stage call failed.
Declaring beats detection. The dashboard also infers these stages from the
Superpowers skill invocations below, but an inference never renders done and
never overrides a declaration — and detection cannot move a lane BACKWARD past
a declared stage, so a rework loop is invisible unless you re-declare the phase
you dropped back to.
Phases
intake — understand before touching anything
ccam stage intake --status running- Restate the requirement and its success criteria.
- Explore the impacted modules:
Exploreagent for breadth, then read the key files yourself. Identify which layers are hit (server / client / mcp / docs / scripts) —repo-onboardingif the area is unfamiliar. - Requirement fuzzy or open to more than one reading? superpowers:brainstorming.
plan — a written plan, challenged before it is code
ccam stage plan- superpowers:writing-plans: approach, files to change, the test strategy (which behavior each test pins), and how each success criterion is met.
- If the task is a bug rather than a feature: superpowers:systematic-debugging first. Root cause, not symptom — and grep every caller of the function you are about to change, not just the path the report names.
implement — smallest coherent diff
ccam stage implementing- superpowers:test-driven-development: failing test → minimal code → green.
- Smallest diff that satisfies the requirement. Every changed line traces to it.
- file-headers applies to every source file you create or edit.
tests — this repo's verification, not a claim
ccam stage tests --status running- Backend changed →
npm run test:server. Frontend →npm run test:client. MCP →npm run mcp:typecheck+npm run mcp:build. - A UI snapshot diff is reviewed, never blindly regenerated
(
cd client && npx vitest run -uonly after you have read the diff). - Record the outcome:
ccam stage tests --evidence "<what passed>", or--result failwith what failed. A step you could not run is reported as not run, never as passed.
review — a real review pass, not a re-read
ccam stage review- Run the code-review skill on the working diff, or superpowers:requesting-code-review when handing it to an agent.
- Apply what is worth applying with superpowers:receiving-code-review judgment: verify each point, neither blind agreement nor blind rejection.
- Changed code in response? Re-run the
testsphase.
gate — evidence before the completion claim
- superpowers:verification-before-completion. Commands actually run, output actually read. This is the phase that stops "should work" from shipping.
ccam stage gate --evidence "<what was verified>"
ship — docs, then the user's call
ccam stage ship- update-project-docs — mandatory for any change to behavior, config, interfaces, events, schema, CLI commands, or features. Not optional, not deferred, not "if asked".
- Commit / push / PR only when the user asks in this turn. Finishing an implementation is not authorization to commit.
ccam stage done --status passed --evidence "<what shipped>"
This repository's own rules
Not restated here. CLAUDE.md is loaded in every session and already binds
them — backward-compatible API/WebSocket contracts, fail-safe hooks,
migration-safe schema changes, the destructive-lane and git-argv guards, and
the lane boundaries (the console never writes a stage; the runtime never writes
stage/status/notes). A second copy here would only drift out of sync with
the first. Read CLAUDE.md and .claude/rules/ for the area you are touching.
References
- Checklist template:
references/feature-checklist.md