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Organizing Features

Keep your feature flags organized with longevity, owners, and tags in Flipper Cloud.

Overview

As the number of feature flags in a project grows, it helps to have tools for keeping them organized. Flipper Cloud provides three ways to manage your features: marking them as temporary or permanent, assigning owners, and tagging.

Temporary vs Permanent

Every feature flag has a longevity setting — temporary or permanent. This communicates intent about a flag's lifecycle and helps your team know which flags are safe to clean up.

• Temporary — The flag supports work in progress and should be removed once the work is complete. This is the default for new flags.
• Permanent — The flag is long-lived and serves an ongoing purpose like maintenance mode, infrastructure controls, or plan-based access. Remove with care.

Marking flags as temporary or permanent makes it easy to identify stale flags that have outlived their purpose and are ready to be cleaned up.

Feature Owners

Assign an owner to each feature flag so your team knows who to ask when they have questions. The owner is typically the person responsible for the feature's rollout or the team lead for that area of the product.

Owners are selected from project members and displayed on the feature's detail page. When ownership changes, the change is recorded in the audit history.

Tags

Tags let you group related features across your project. Add one or more tags to a feature and then filter the feature list by tag to focus on what matters.

Common tagging strategies include:

• By team — payments, onboarding, platform
• By initiative — q1-launch, redesign, migration
• By area — api, dashboard, mobile

Tags are free-form text, normalized to lowercase. As you add tags, Flipper Cloud suggests frequently used tags from your project so your team stays consistent.