next

next is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from control-decks/think-it-through. It costs 43 tokens per session (369 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that recommends the next one to three actions based on the latest useful result or the current task context. It identifies what is blocking progress and ranks the suggested actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after an actionable result to choose follow-up work, especially when you need to identify the main bottleneck and compare a small number of possible next steps.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to decide what to do next after an agent produces a result. It keeps the suggestions focused and does not carry out the actions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the think-it-through plugin — 17 skills shipped together

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/control-decks/think-it-through/next
Any agent
npx skills add control-decks/think-it-through --skill next
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/control-decks/think-it-through

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install think-it-through, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for next

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/control-decks/think-it-through/next.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/control-decks/think-it-through/next)
Your own site
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 369 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 $0.00043 $0.00369
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00185
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00037

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2aef84b22e3f, 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 3d 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.

plugins/think-it-through/skills/next/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

⚡ Think Next

ID: think-it-through/next
HACP: 0.4
Kind: operation
Mode: transform
Traits: read-only, semantic
Default Binding: Latest actionable result, otherwise current Binding
Accepts: hacp/content, hacp/result
Requires: hacp/actionable-result
Produces: think-it-through/next-actions
Duration: once

Effect: Recover the bound stage and dependencies, identify its bottleneck, and rank one to three concrete actions by leverage with expected outcomes.

Limits: Distinguish conversational and external actions. Do not expand into a full plan or execute anything.

Flow

flowchart LR
    A["Actionable result or Binding"] --> B["Recover stage and dependencies"]
    B --> C["Find highest-leverage bottleneck"]
    C --> D["Rank possible actions"]
    D --> E["Select one to three"]
    E --> F["Name action and expected outcome"]
    F --> G["User chooses whether to act"]

Prefer a reversible learning step when uncertainty is high.

Format

Begin the combo trace with > 🎯 **<binding>** → ⚡ **NEXT**, followed by one to three Next actions ordered by leverage.

Add an output with and presentation cards with +; show the trace once for the complete combo.

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. 3d ago First seen · 45 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 2aef84b22e3f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

next is a skill published in the GitHub repository control-decks/think-it-through (3 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 369 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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