next-action

next-action is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AlexZio00/sovereign-skills. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,305 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A recommendation tool that reads the current project state and suggests the three most important next actions. It uses files such as handoffs, task notes, and Git history when they are available.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a task or work session to get prioritized next steps; it recommends actions but does not carry them out.
Why use it?
It helps developers decide what to do next from the project’s actual state instead of guessing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: user-invocable in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the next-action plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it after a task or work session to get prioritized next steps; it recommends actions but does not carry them out.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexzio00/sovereign-skills/next-action
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.

Any agent
npx skills add AlexZio00/sovereign-skills --skill next-action
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlexZio00/sovereign-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install next-action, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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README.md
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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,305 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00057 $0.01305
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00652
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00261
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00130

Measured 4d ago against content hash 67e15edcfd36, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

next-action 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.

next-action/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/next — Next Action Recommender

Dominant Variable

Is the proposed action actually high-impact based on current project state? — it must come from measured files, not guesses.

Purpose

Reads current project state and proposes the top 3 next actions by impact. Different from stepback (direction check) — stepback asks "am I doing the right thing right now", this asks "what should I do next". Different from session-start (handoff load) — session-start restores the prior session, this recommends actions from current state.

Discard if: right after session start (session-start already loaded the handoff + output state). User already gave a specific task.

Key Assumptions

  1. Project has a CLAUDE.md — if broken: propose from git status alone (reduced scope).
  2. Is a git repository — if broken: propose from filesystem scan alone.

Trigger

  • /next
  • "what should I do next"
  • "next action"

Workflow

Step 1: Collect State (parallel, 30s cap)

Read the following 5 sources. Skip missing files.

  1. memory/session-handoff-LATEST.md — "What to do now" section
  2. git status --short — uncommitted changed files
  3. git log --oneline -5 — recent work flow
  4. tasks/lessons.mdconf≥0.7 lessons stale 30+ days (need re-application)
  5. docs/STATE.md or ~/.claude/STATE.md — PENDING blockers

Step 2: Derive Candidates

Extract action candidates from collected data. Check each candidate's own underlying source for freshness (the specific lesson's seen date, the specific commit referenced) — not just whether the handoff file as a whole is old:

  • Handoff "what to do now" → candidate as-is, but verify the specific file/commit it references is still current
  • Uncommitted files → "commit + push" or "needs verification"
  • PENDING blocker trigger satisfied → "resolve blocker"
  • Stale lesson → "re-apply/verify lesson"
  • git log pattern → "continue ongoing work" or "pivot direction"

Step 3: Sort by Impact

Narrow candidates to 3. Sort criteria:

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 Changed 67e15edcfd36
  2. 12d ago First seen · 124 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A edae6d116fe7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

next-action is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlexZio00/sovereign-skills (129 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,305 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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