Closes the user's gap: when `pnpm turbo gen feature <name>` scaffolds
a new feature, that feature must also be tracked by release-please —
otherwise it sits outside the versioning + changelog pipeline.
The generator now performs three release-please integrations:
1. **CHANGELOG.md seeded at v0.1.0** — new template at
templates/feature/CHANGELOG.md.hbs emits a baseline entry pointing
at ADR-021 + docs/guides/releasing.md so the consumer immediately
sees where future entries will appear.
2. **package.json version field bumped** — templates/feature/
package.json.hbs: "0.0.0" -> "0.1.0", matching the per-feature
baseline established when release-please was set up.
3. **Manifest + config registration via a new custom action** —
lib/release-please-utils.ts exports
registerFeatureInReleasePlease(repoRoot, name) which:
- Reads .release-please-manifest.json, adds
`"packages/<name>": "0.1.0"`, writes back with sorted keys
(root stays first, rest alphabetical) so diffs stay minimal
- Reads release-please-config.json, adds the per-package config
block (package-name, component, changelog-path), writes back
with the same sort
- Idempotent — re-running on an already-tracked feature is a
no-op
- Throws fast if either file is missing (ADR-021 requires
release-please to be set up BEFORE features can register)
The generator wires this in via a function action between the last
file `add` and the next-steps printout. Its return string surfaces
in the generator log so the user sees "Registered @repo/<name> in
release-please tracking".
Tested: 5/5 unit tests cover the happy path, idempotency, sort
order, and both missing-file error paths. Smoke-tested against the
real repo configs (adding a synthetic "demo" feature, then
restoring) — manifest entry appears in the correct sorted position;
config block has the right shape.
Future `pnpm turbo gen feature` invocations cannot leave a feature
untracked. Existing features (auth, blog, media, marketing-pages,
navigation) were registered manually when the release-please epic
landed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Clean Architecture Monorepo Template
Turborepo + pnpm monorepo organised by vertical features, with an agent-first workflow and five conformance gates.
This template is built for agent-driven development. Sandcastle is the orchestration substrate; pnpm work dispatch is the entry point. See ADR-019 for the decision rationale and docs/guides/runbook.md for end-to-end usage.
Start here
Read docs/guides/runbook.md — day-1 onboarding (prerequisites, env vars, daily commands, troubleshooting, Using Sandcastle for agent dispatch).
Quick reference
pnpm install # Install + auto-wire husky pre-commit hooks
pnpm dev # All dev servers (web-next:3000, cms:3001, web-tanstack:3002, storybook:6006)
pnpm test # All tests
pnpm typecheck # TypeScript across all packages
pnpm lint # ESLint (incl. 8 conformance/* rules)
pnpm conformance # Cross-feature event closure
pnpm fallow # Whole-codebase: dead exports, dupes, complexity
pnpm turbo boundaries # Workspace dependency graph
pnpm work status # docs/work/ epic + story state
docker compose up -d # Start PostgreSQL
Documentation map
docs/guides/runbook.md— start hereCLAUDE.md— full conventions referenceAGENTS.md— package map + boundary rulesdocs/guides/conformance-quickref.md— manifest + 5-gate daily referencedocs/architecture/agent-first-workflow-and-conformance.md— full designdocs/architecture/feature-conformance-explainer.html— interactive explainer
Scaffolding
pnpm turbo gen feature <name> # Scaffold a feature (manifest + contracts + tests)
pnpm turbo gen event # Event contract or handler (requires gen core-package events)
pnpm turbo gen job # Background job
pnpm turbo gen realtime # Realtime channel (requires gen core-package realtime)
pnpm turbo gen core-package <name> # Optional core: events / realtime / trpc / ui / audit
pnpm turbo gen core-ui-component <name> # Atomic-design component
Generator-first is non-negotiable — hand-rolled feature/event/job/realtime/component code is rejected by reviewer agents and may fail the CI scaffold-drift check.
Optional packages
Five core packages scaffold on demand:
pnpm turbo gen core-package realtime # Socket.IO realtime layer (ADR-016)
pnpm turbo gen core-package events # Cross-feature events + Payload jobs (ADR-015)
pnpm turbo gen core-package trpc # tRPC server setup
pnpm turbo gen core-package ui # Design system
pnpm turbo gen core-package audit # DPA-compliant audit logging (ADR-018)
See docs/architecture/template-tiers.md for the full tier list.
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