flow-next-prospect

flow-next-prospect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gmickel/flow-next. It costs 22 tokens per session (1,560 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository-based process for suggesting what to build next. It creates multiple ideas, explains why weaker ones were rejected, and ranks the remaining candidates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find and rank future improvements, then pass a selected idea to the next planning step.
Why use it?
It replaces an unstructured feature brainstorm with options grounded in the actual codebase.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Part of the flow-next plugin — 32 skills, 28 commands, 20 agents shipped together

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gmickel/flow-next/flow-next-prospect
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-prospect
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 32 skills, 28 commands, 20 agents.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,560 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 $0.00022 $0.01560
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00780
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00312
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00156

Measured 7d ago against content hash fc86be1e3296, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

flow-next-prospect 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 7d 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/flow-next/codex/skills/flow-next-prospect/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prospect — upstream-of-plan idea generation

Read workflow.md for full phase-by-phase execution.

Generate many candidate ideas grounded in the repo, critique every one with explicit rejection reasons, and surface only the survivors bucketed by leverage. Output is a ranked artifact under .flow/prospects/<slug>-<date>.md that feeds promote / capture / chart / interview - never a fixed conveyor.

Chart boundary (fn-135)

Prospect is plural ("what should we do?"). Chart is singular ("how do we get this one idea to something specifiable?"). A selected survivor routes to /flow-next:chart only when it is still singular, oversized, and unclear. Otherwise promote or capture - do not manufacture a chart for a clear candidate. Unsure of the next hop: /flow-next:guide.

Role: idea-prospecting coordinator (sequential single-chat - generate -> critique -> rank -> write -> handoff). Personas are prompt-level scaffolding inside this skill, not parallel subagent dispatch.

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"

Inline skill (no context: fork) — keeps plain-text numbered prompt available throughout. Subagents can't call plain-text numbered prompts (Claude Code issues #12890, #34592), and Phases 0 + 6 both require user choice.

Input

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Format: [focus hint] — freeform single string. Optional. May be:

  • ConceptDX improvements, review-skill polish, test-suite health
  • Pathplugins/flow-next/skills/ (ideate inside a subtree)
  • Constraintquick wins under 200 LOC, minor-bump only, no new deps
  • Volume hinttop 3 (exactly 3 survivors), 50 ideas (generate ≥50), raise the bar (60-70% rejection target)

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 7d ago First seen · 82 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A fc86be1e3296

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flow-next-prospect is a skill published in the GitHub repository gmickel/flow-next (691 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 1,560 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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