# New Feature Protocol

- Check the decisions folder for a document for this feature
    - no decision document found
        - Check out other API teams codebase and see if the feature has been implemented
        - Feature is implemented
            - Yes
                - Does this implementation work for the new feature requirement?
                - Yes
                    - Write up a decision document to describe the implementation and submit with the details including linking to the design document.
                    - implement feature in your repo
                - No
                    - Do discovery for your needs and the needs of the existing implementation
                    - write up the decision document and reach out for feedback to all teams
                    - once final signoff
                        - create ticket(s) in the other team's repos to bring their implementation to meet the decision document's implementation
                        - do your implementation of the feature
            - No
                - Do discovery
                - implement
                - write a design document
    - decision document found
        - Does this implementation work for the new feature requirement?
            - Yes
                - implement
            - No
                - Do discovery for your needs and the needs of the existing implementation
                - submit an amendment to the existing decision document
                - once final signoff
                        - create ticket(s) in the other team's repos to bring their implementation to meet the decision document's implementation
                        - do your implementation of the feature