flow-next-guide

flow-next-guide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gmickel/flow-next. It costs 29 tokens per session (2,413 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow guide that recommends the next flow-next command or stage based on where work currently stands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you are unsure how to begin, continue, or route work through a flow-next project.
Why use it?
It helps you choose the smallest useful next step without changing project plans or workflow records.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the flow-next plugin — 33 skills, 30 commands, 25 agents 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/gmickel/flow-next/flow-next-guide
Any agent
npx skills add gmickel/flow-next --skill flow-next-guide
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, 30 commands, 25 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,413 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 $0.00029 $0.02413
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01207
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00483
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00241

Measured yesterday against content hash b637f39dcba9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

flow-next-guide 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 yesterday.

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-guide/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Guide - smallest-sufficient workflow router

Stateless prompt-first router. Recommends one next workflow from the starting state. Does not create specs, charts, tasks, artifacts, or flowctl state. Chart is an optional discovery route - never a mandatory stage and never a new pipeline stage.

Role: routing coordinator (inline skill - keep plain-text numbered prompt reachable). On portable hosts without plain-text numbered prompt, fall back to a plain-text numbered prompt with a final Other - type your own answer option.

Preamble

CRITICAL: flowctl is BUNDLED - NOT installed globally. which flowctl will fail (expected). Define once; probe blocks 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"

No flowctl mutation. Optional read-only probes ($FLOWCTL brief for cold-session orientation; $FLOWCTL list / $FLOWCTL show, file reads) may ground the recommendation when a handle or path is named. Never run create/write/claim/resolve.

Output contract (every recommendation)

Lead with a natural-language next prompt - the exact words or slash command the user should say/run next. Flags are secondary (automation only). Then:

  1. Route - named skill/path
  2. Why (positive signal) - which matrix signal matched
  3. Safe skip / narrow - when this route may be skipped or narrowed
  4. Skip kind - signal absent (the stage's work is not needed) vs despite unresolved risk (you chose a smaller path; evidence/consent/review contracts still apply later)

Skipping a command never skips the evidence, consent, or review contract that command would have provided.

Smallest-sufficient matrix (exact)

Match the starting state. First clear match wins. Chart only when one oversized idea is still unclear.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. yesterday Changed b637f39dcba9
  2. 5d ago First seen · 109 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A f60820b860f3

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flow-next-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository gmickel/flow-next (690 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 2,413 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 2026-08-30.

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