flow-next-qa

flow-next-qa is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gmickel/flow-next. It costs 40 tokens per session (3,116 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A live check of a running application from a user's point of view. It records bugs by priority and ends with a yes-or-no recommendation about shipping.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to drive the completed app, document P0, P1, and P2 findings with evidence, and produce an initial release verdict.
Why use it?
It catches problems that static code and specification reviews cannot reveal, while leaving final decisions to human reviewers and later testing.

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, 29 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-qa
Any agent
npx skills add gmickel/flow-next --skill flow-next-qa
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, 29 commands, 25 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,116 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 5.1 $0.00040 $0.03116
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01558
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00623
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00312

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2671c1ee0f27, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

flow-next-qa 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 6d 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-qa/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/flow-next:qa — live-app real-user QA pass

flow-next's review surface today is all static: impl-review, spec-completion-review, quality-auditor, code-review. Nothing drives the running app like an unforgiving real user. /flow-next:qa fills that gap — it drives the deployed app (via fn-51 flow-next-drive), files structured P0/P1/P2 findings with evidence, and ends with a YES/NO ship verdict emitted as a proof-of-work receipt.

Augments, never replaces. QA is the cheap first live pass — the app already runs on the dev's machine during work, so run an initial agentic pass over the complete build before a human opens the PR. Like everything in flow-next it reduces human work agentically and surfaces problems to humans; it does not stand in for CI/staging QA or manual QA, which still happen downstream. Findings are advisory: they ride the draft PR + the bug-memory track, and the human reviewer + the land gate decide.

Two entry points, one skill. Run it user-invoked (you remember to), or wire it into the autonomous build loop as the optional pipeline.qa pilot stage (default off; flowctl config set pipeline.qa on). When on, /flow-next:pilot inserts a qa stage at the all-tasks-done juncture — one live pass over the complete build, just before make-pr (plan → plan-review → work → qa → make-pr). The stage is evidence-aware (it leans on what work already verified) and autonomy-safe (SHIP/NA/BLOCKED advance; NEEDS_WORK still advances to the draft PR and surfaces its findings — QA never hard-blocks the loop). See docs/ralph.md and flowctl.md (pipeline.qa config row).

Prerequisite - /flow-next:prime gates the recommendation. Prime's QA-readiness line is the upstream signal for turning pipeline.qa on: it recommends enabling this stage ONLY when the repo reaches operability tier 3 AND the DR-core prerequisites pass (seeded data, documented dev login, a drivable surface, readable runtime evidence). If prime reports "QA stage would fail here" or "not applicable to this shape", the app cannot be driven yet - fix the named prerequisites (or leave the stage off) rather than wiring in a stage that BLOCKs every run.

The differentiator vs spec-less QA tools is the spec is the source of intent: flow-next derives test scenarios directly from the spec — acceptance criteria → scenarios, R-IDs → coverage, boundaries → what NOT to test, decision context → expected behavior. The host already encodes intent instead of reconstructing it. The QA discipline (P0/P1/P2 taxonomy, evidence rules, session hygiene) is a lean borrow from Ray Fernando's running-bug-review-board skill (Apache-2.0 — credited in CHANGELOG); flow-next stays lean (no 18-reference port, ≤500-line skill cap).

Read workflow.md for the full phase-by-phase execution (discover → derive → prepare → execute → file → verdict).

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 6d ago First seen · 115 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 2671c1ee0f27

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flow-next-qa is a skill published in the GitHub repository gmickel/flow-next (691 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 3,116 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 2026-08-30.

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