next

A workflow for selecting the next Todo issue in Linear, a tool for tracking software tasks, and starting work on it. It can filter tasks by labels, show the highest-priority candidate, and mark the chosen issue as In Progress.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose the next task by priority or label, review its description and metadata, assign it to yourself, and begin implementing it in the current project repository.
Why use it?
It removes the repeated task of finding the next assignment and updating its status before development begins. It also brings the issue requirements and relevant project context into the working session.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 407 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 $0.00021 $0.00407
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00204
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00041

Measured 2d ago against content hash d62155dd7972, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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/next/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

Pick Up Next Task

Fetch the next available Todo issue from Linear and start executing it.

Input

$ARGUMENTS — optional label filter (e.g., dev, writing, agent:claude). If omitted, pick the highest priority Todo.

Workflow

  1. Find the current project:

    • Determine the Linear project from the current repo (match by name)
    • If not in a project repo, ask the user which project
  2. Query Todo issues:

    • List issues with status Todo in this project
    • If a label filter is provided, apply it
    • Sort by priority, then by creation date
  3. Present the candidate:

    • Show the top issue: title, description, labels, priority
    • Ask: "开始这个任务?还是看下一个?"
  4. Start the task:

    • Mark the issue as In Progress in Linear
    • Assign to "me"
    • Read the issue description for requirements/spec
  5. Load context if needed:

    • If the task involves code changes, read relevant source files
    • If the task references design.md or ADRs, read those
  6. Begin execution:

    • Follow the requirements from the issue description
    • Follow the project's CLAUDE.md conventions
    • For dev tasks, consider using Superpowers workflow (/superpowers:brainstorming or /superpowers:writing-plans)

Notes

  • Only picks up one task at a time
  • If there are no Todo issues, suggest running /swf:plan-next to create new ones
  • Respect executor labels: don't pick up manual tasks, only agent:claude or unlabeled
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 · 50 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A d62155dd7972

Subscribe to this mod's changes

next is a skill published in the GitHub repository cliffren/swf (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 407 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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