shotgun: Command for Claude Code

.claude/commands/next-stage.md

next-stage is a command for Claude Code from shotgun-sh/shotgun. It costs 0 tokens per session (107 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for starting the next implementation stage from project specifications stored in the .shotgun/ directory. It creates a branch, explores the codebase, and prepares work for one stage at a time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a project has .shotgun/ specifications and needs the next stage explored, planned, branched, and tracked.
Why use it?
It turns existing research and plans into a focused implementation step and records progress in the project's task file.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is shotgun-sh/shotgun's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on shotgun itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything shotgun configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to shotgun-sh/shotgun. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shotgun-sh/shotgun/main/.claude/commands/next-stage.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shotgun-sh/shotgun

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 107 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00000 $0.00107
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00053
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00021
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00011

Measured 9d ago against content hash 760495b97dcc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

next-stage 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 9d 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/commands/next-stage.md · 6 lines

What it actually says

Create a branch. I am going to take a shower for the next 90 minutes and I need the next stage to be finished before I come back. All of the research, contracts, specification, plan, and tasks in .shotgun/ this directory is just specifications and example code. Second Explore the codebase to come up with a detailed implementation plan for the next stage, only do 1 stage at a time Part of the plan should be to update the .shotgun/tasks.md with the work as its being done.

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. 9d ago First seen · 6 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 760495b97dcc

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next-stage is a command published in the GitHub repository shotgun-sh/shotgun (682 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 107 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.