bob-next

bob-next is a command for coding agents from PounceAI/bob-control. It costs 15 tokens per session (366 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command that previews the next task on Bob’s task board, including how it will be routed and its risk level. It leaves the task unchanged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect the next queued task, its priority, description, tags, routing source, and whether its risk fits the worker’s allowed limit.
Why use it?
It lets you check what the worker would pick up before dispatching it, especially when dispatch is paused or the task may require manual handling.

Command

Part of the bob-companion plugin — 4 skills, 8 commands, 1 agent, 1 MCP server 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/pounceai/bob-control/bob-next
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PounceAI/bob-control

Or install bob-companion, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 8 commands, 1 agent, 1 MCP server.

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 bob-next

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 366 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 5.1 $0.00015 $0.00366
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00183
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00037

Measured 5d ago against content hash 9acc35db4e88, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bob-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 5d 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.

claude-plugin/commands/bob-next.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

Show what Bob will pull next — without claiming it (you are the foreman, not the worker; do not set claim).

Call get_next_task with claim: false (and tag: "$ARGUMENTS" only if a tag was given above). If it returns null, say the queue is empty — or, if it reports board: "disarmed", that dispatch is paused (arm the board to pull) — and stop.

Otherwise call predict_mode { id: <that task's id> } (it routes via the connector's own router in modes.ts, so this never re-encodes the keyword table) and report:

  • the task: #id · priority · title, plus its description and tags;
  • the mode it will dispatch in and the source (explicit / tag / auto-router / default);
  • the risk of that mode (safe / standard / elevated). The worker auto-dispatches only at/below its --max-risk (default standard), so an advanced (elevated) task waits for manual dispatch.

State the mode, the source, and a one-line "why" (for an explicit/tag source, name the mode or tag that pinned it; for auto-router, the wording that matched). Do not change the task.

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. 5d ago First seen · 24 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 9acc35db4e88

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bob-next is a command published in the GitHub repository PounceAI/bob-control (1 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 366 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.