dos-next-up

dos-next-up is a skill for Claude Code from anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel. It costs 53 tokens per session (3,098 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for reviewing a repository's phased work plans and preparing the next tasks for coding agents. It checks candidate plans, shows who should do what, and produces a go/no-go decision before work is assigned.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find the next work items, narrow them to a lane or plan, create a dispatch packet, and check whether there is work ready to assign.
Why use it?
It removes the need to inspect every plan manually before dispatching agents. It also helps prevent assigning work from outdated or invalid plans.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the dos-kernel plugin — 18 skills, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to find the next work items, narrow them to a lane or plan, create a dispatch packet, and check whether there is work ready to assign.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel/dos-next-up
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 anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel --skill dos-next-up
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dos-kernel, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,098 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 $0.00053 $0.03098
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01549
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00620
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00310

Measured 9d ago against content hash 872f4991f90a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dos-next-up 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-plugin/skills/dos-next-up/SKILL.md · 236 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 236 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

dos-next-up — the generic plan-and-ship snapshot

This is the baseline screenplay DOS ships, not a prerequisite. It drives the kernel syscalls (verify, gate) against any repo whose layout lives in dos.toml. It names no host directory, no host lane, and no host commit convention — every host specific comes from dos doctor --json (paths/lanes, via WCR) or dos.toml [stamp] (the ship grammar, via SCV). Copy it into your own skills dir, point dos at your workspace, and it runs.

The shape is domain-free: discover the layout → walk the plans → audit each pick against the truth syscall → render a packet → gate the empty case. The policy (which lanes, which plan grammar, where output lands) is data the screenplay reads, never literals it hardcodes.

Inputs

  • --scope <name> (repeatable, optional) — narrow candidates to one lane (a name from the active [lanes] taxonomy) or one plan id. Omitted = all plans.
  • --limit <N> (optional, default 5) — how many top picks to render.

Step 0 — Discover the workspace layout (one call)

Run the doctor verb and read the result. This is the WCR on-ramp: every path/lane below comes from here, never a literal.

dos doctor --workspace . --json

Parse the JSON object. The fields you use:

  • paths.plans_glob — the glob to walk for plan docs (whatever the workspace declared). Use this value; never assume a fixed plans directory.
  • paths.next_packets — where the rendered packet is written (the configured output dir; .dos/verdicts under the generic default).
  • lanes.concurrent / lanes.exclusive / lanes.trees — the active lane taxonomy, if you need to group picks by lane or honor a --scope.
  • stamp — the active ship-subject grammar (informational; dos verify applies it for you — you never grep subjects yourself).

If git is false, warn the operator: dos verify's git rung has no history to read, so every pick will report source="none" unless a registry exists.

Read the full file on GitHub · 236 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. 9d ago First seen · 236 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 872f4991f90a

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dos-next-up is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel (19 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 3,098 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.