whats-next

whats-next is a command for coding agents from OdinMB/ops-workflow. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,308 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-planning command that reviews a project's overview, current status, backlogs, and plans, then produces a ranked answer to “What should we do next?”

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for finding recent progress, blockers, quick wins, and larger priorities in a project whose notes are organized into files such as backlogs and plans.
Why use it?
It helps turn scattered project notes into a short list of priorities without reading every file in detail.

Command

Part of the ops plugin — 9 skills, 10 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/odinmb/ops-workflow/whats-next
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OdinMB/ops-workflow

Or install ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 10 commands, 5 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for whats-next

README.md
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Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,308 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00032 $0.01308
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00654
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00131

Measured 4d ago against content hash 65e6e1aa7881, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

whats-next scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/whats-next.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generate an executive overview for this project. $ARGUMENTS

Instructions

1. Gather Context

Read only the high-level INDEX files first. Be selective about drilling into details — only read individual files when needed to answer a specific question or fill a gap.

Round 1 — INDEX files only (skip any that don't exist):

  1. MEMORY.md — Project overview and knowledge map.
  2. state/INDEX.md — Area names and status summaries.
  3. backlog/INDEX.md — Priorities and item titles.
  4. plans/INDEX.md — Note active vs completed plans.

Round 2 — Selective drill-down:

  • Read active plan files (not completed ones — titles in the INDEX are enough for momentum context).
  • Read up to 3 individual state or backlog files if they're directly relevant to your recommendations or the user's focus area. No more than 3.

2. Analyze

With all context loaded, assess:

  • Momentum: What has been accomplished recently? What's the trajectory?
  • Bottlenecks: What's blocking progress? Are there unresolved decisions, missing prerequisites, or resource constraints?
  • Quick wins: What high-impact items can be done with minimal effort?
  • Strategic bets: What bigger moves could shift the project's trajectory?
  • Staleness: Are any state files outdated? Are backlog items obsolete?

3. Output

Present the overview using this structure. Do not explain the project — the user knows what it is. Focus on where things stand and what to do next.


Header
# Executive Overview
_Generated: <today's date>_
Status Dashboard

A compact table showing key metrics at a glance. Pull numbers from state files. Use for unknown values.

Derive areas from top-level state entries (folders and files directly under state/). Each row corresponds to one top-level entry. Do NOT nest every sub-topic — only add child rows for sub-areas where something particularly noteworthy is happening right now (e.g., a recent launch, an upcoming deadline, a specific blocker). Most state areas should be a single row. Keep the dashboard to 3-5 top-level rows with 0-2 nested rows total.

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 139 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 65e6e1aa7881

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whats-next is a command published in the GitHub repository OdinMB/ops-workflow (7 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,308 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.