Show HN: Automatically keep track of all features implemented in a project

A developer released Feature Ledger, a command-line tool that automatically tracks features implemented in a software project by storing JSON descriptions in a .ledger directory. The tool offers commands including ledger init, ledger bootstrap (which prints a prompt for a coding agent to analyze a codebase), ledger audit, ledger release cut, and ledger build, which generates a client PDF, FEATURES.md, and FEATURES_EXTENDED.md. The project was posted to Hacker News as a Show HN with 1 point and 0 comments.

I built this because I wanted to automate my least favourite part of documentation writing - expressing at a high level what was implemented. There are a couple of situations where you could need that: - to show to the client what changed since the last update - to show to an executive, where the fucus went lately - to explain to a new team member, what the project is about Because the report you can see how it looks here: https://github.com/netizer/feature-ledger/blob/main/docs/cli... https://github.com/netizer/feature-ledger/blob/main/docs/client/feature-ledger-Feature-Ledger 2.pdf is automated, I also use it as a discovery tool in projects I just started working on. The way it works: - ledger init - creates a .ledger directory; descriptions of all new features will be stored there - ledger bootstrap - prints out a prompt to be used in a coding agent; it will analyse a new codebase and create the JSON files describing all features - ledger audit - when you usa a coding agent it will automatically keep the feature list up-to-date, audit is to discover features implemented without a coding agent - ledger release cut --name "Release name" --date 2026-09-11 - run it after you've just shown to the client what had changed and you want to start working on a new set of features; in the new ledger you will see new features in green, updated features with blue, and deleted ones in red - ledger build - run it whenever you want to see the report of new features; there are 3 files generated based on JSON files describing features: a PDF for the client, FEATURES.md the same but in an MD format , FEATURES EXTENDED.md the same but including implementation details - this is for the dev team Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654287 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654287 Points: 1 Comments: 0