flow-next-flow

flow-next-flow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gmickel/flow-next. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,207 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow coordinator for coding tasks, questions, bugs, and design choices. It selects the next stage, such as clarifying requirements, planning work, implementing changes, checking results, or preparing a pull request.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to route an idea, change request, issue, bug report, performance problem, cleanup, or design fork through a structured development workflow.
Why use it?
It removes the need to decide manually which workflow step comes next. It also keeps each stage's rules and hand-offs in one process.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: allowed-tools in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex; mentions OpenCode.

Part of the flow-next plugin — 33 skills, 29 commands, 21 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to route an idea, change request, issue, bug report, performance problem, cleanup, or design fork through a structured development workflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gmickel/flow-next/flow-next-flow
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 gmickel/flow-next --skill flow-next-flow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gmickel/flow-next

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install flow-next, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 29 commands, 21 agents.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,207 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.
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 $0.00051 $0.01207
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00603
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00241
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00121

Measured today against content hash e7a3de54012f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

flow-next-flow 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 today.

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/flow-next/codex/skills/flow-next-flow/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/flow-next:flow - attended conductor

Flow chooses the next step so the user does not have to. It reads what it was given, routes from the shared routing reference, runs the routed stage skill, and continues until the next decision that belongs to a human. It re-implements no stage logic: capture, refine, plan, plan-review, work, qa, make-pr, and resolve-pr keep their own contracts, receipts, and gates.

Role: conductor, inline (no context: fork) so plain-text numbered prompt stays reachable. On hosts without it, fall back to a plain-text numbered prompt with a final Other - type your own answer option.

Read workflow.md for the hop loop. The routing rules live in references/, one file per rule, each opening with its decision record. Read a reference only at the step that names it; a step that does not name one reads nothing.

Preamble

CRITICAL: flowctl is BUNDLED - NOT installed globally. which flowctl will fail (expected). Define once; subsequent blocks (here and in workflow.md) use $FLOWCTL:

FLOWCTL="${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}/scripts/flowctl"
[ -x "$FLOWCTL" ] || FLOWCTL="<plugin-root>/scripts/flowctl"   # <plugin-root> = the directory two levels above this skill's SKILL.md file (the harness gave you that file's absolute path when the skill loaded); substitute it literally
[ -x "$FLOWCTL" ] || FLOWCTL=".flow/bin/flowctl"

Autonomy refusal - runs first

Flow is attended. Pilot, Ralph, and flow are three drivers and are never nested. Under any autonomy marker (scan the marker namespace: FLOW_RALPH, FLOW_AUTONOMOUS, REVIEW_RECEIPT_PATH, AUTONOMOUS=1, a mode:autonomous token), stop before any read or write:

NEEDS_HUMAN: /flow-next:flow is attended - run /flow-next:pilot for unattended ticks

A run that routed, dispatched, or asked under a marker has broken this.

Mode detection

Parse $ARGUMENTS as exact tokens (never substrings): --explain sets EXPLAIN=1; --review=<backend> sets REVIEW_OVERRIDE and is passed through unchanged to every stage it dispatches. Everything else is the starting point, verbatim - flow adds no input classifier. A tracker issue id or URL is read through the access the session already has (the sync bridge, an MCP, gh, glab); flow adds no input adapter.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. today First seen · 66 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A e7a3de54012f

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flow-next-flow is a skill published in the GitHub repository gmickel/flow-next (696 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,207 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 2026-09-12.

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