flow.analyze

A read-only check of linked project documents such as a specification, implementation plan, and task list. It looks for contradictions, missing details, and quality problems before coding begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after design work to review specification, plan, and task files, report issues, fix them, and repeat the analysis.
Why use it?
It catches disagreements between planning documents before they become implementation mistakes. It also checks that the required documents and approval steps exist.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/billbuchanan-code/claude-code-power-setup/flow.analyze
Any agent
npx skills add billbuchanan-code/claude-code-power-setup --skill flow.analyze
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/billbuchanan-code/claude-code-power-setup

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,944 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 $0.00015 $0.02944
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.01472
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00589
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00294

Measured 2d ago against content hash 05b8939c60a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

flow.analyze 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 2d 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.

skills/flow.analyze/SKILL.md · 333 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 333 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

User Input

$ARGUMENTS

Note: Use specflow directly, NOT npx specflow. It's a local CLI at ~/.claude/specflow-system/bin/.

Prerequisites

Requirement Check Command If Missing
Design gate passed specflow check --gate design Run /flow.design
spec.md exists specflow status --jsoncontext.hasSpec Run /flow.design
plan.md exists specflow status --jsoncontext.hasPlan Run /flow.design
tasks.md exists specflow status --jsoncontext.hasTasks Run /flow.design
Constitution .specify/memory/constitution.md Run /flow.init

Goal

Analyze spec.md, plan.md, and tasks.md for inconsistencies, gaps, and quality issues. This command runs AFTER /flow.design has produced all artifacts. If it finds any issues, it will report on those issues in a detailed way, fix all issues (no matter how small), and then run /flow.analyze again.

Execution

0. Create Todo List

Create todo list immediately (use TodoWrite):

  1. [ANALYZE] INITIALIZE - Get project status and verify gate
  2. [ANALYZE] LOAD - Load all artifacts in parallel
  3. [ANALYZE] DETECT - Run 8 detection passes
  4. [ANALYZE] FIX - Auto-fix loop (max 5 iterations)
  5. [ANALYZE] REPORT - Generate analysis report

Set [ANALYZE] INITIALIZE to in_progress.

1. Initialize

specflow status --json

Parse response:

  • context.featureDir → FEATURE_DIR (abort if null) - e.g., /path/to/project/specs/0060-github-integration
  • phase.number → PHASE_NUMBER (e.g., "0060")
  • context.hasSpec/hasPlan/hasTasks → all must be true

Path clarification:

  • FEATURE_DIR = specs/NNNN-name/ - Active phase artifacts (spec.md, plan.md, tasks.md)
  • .specify/phases/NNNN-*.md = Phase definition document (goals, scope, verification gate)

Read the full file on GitHub · 333 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. 2d ago First seen · 333 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 05b8939c60a3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

flow.analyze is a skill published in the GitHub repository billbuchanan-code/claude-code-power-setup (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 2,944 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.

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