flow-next-qa

flow-next-qa is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gmickel/flow-next. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,171 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 Codex.

Part of the flow-next plugin — 29 skills, 26 commands, 21 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to drive the completed app, document P0, P1, and P2 findings with evidence, and produce an initial release verdict.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gmickel/flow-next/flow-next-qa
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-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 29 skills, 26 commands, 21 agents.

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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 1,171 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Agent Snooping · line 93
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
How audits are shown
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 $0.01171
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00468
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00117

Measured 19d ago against content hash 90191ebb9812, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 19d 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 · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 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

Drive the running app the way an unforgiving real user would, with scenarios taken from the spec, file P0/P1/P2 findings with captured evidence, and end with a YES/NO ship verdict written as a qa_verdict receipt. The spec is the source of intent: acceptance criteria become scenarios, R-IDs become the coverage table, boundaries say what not to test, decision context says what the app should do.

QA is a cheap first live pass over the finished build. It does not replace CI, staging or manual QA, and it does not fix product code: it files, surfaces and hands off. Findings are advisory; the human reviewer and the land gate decide.

It runs when the user invokes it, or as the optional pipeline.qa stage (off | on | auto, default off) that /flow-next:flow runs after all tasks are done and before make-pr. When setting or reading that key, read gate-selection.md; flowctl.md has the config row. Enable the stage only where /flow-next:prime reports the app is QA-ready (seeded data, a documented dev login, a drivable surface, readable runtime evidence); otherwise every run ends BLOCKED.

Read working-rules.md first unless you already have this run; it holds for every step.

The hard rule

SHIP rests on evidence captured from the running app (screenshots, console output, observed state). A SHIP reached by reading the source or the diff, from narration, or from "the code looks right" has broken this. With no reachable app or no driver, the outcome is BLOCKED, never a pass. Reading source to explain a failure you already captured is fine.

Preamble

flowctl is bundled, not on PATH. Define it once; later 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"

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 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. 19d ago Changed 90191ebb9812
  2. 21d ago Changed · -28 lines eea4e5e52924
  3. 26d ago Changed acc2878a85f5
  4. 1mo ago Changed ce6222957acd
  5. 1mo ago Changed 5d3c9d0f1b36
  6. 1mo 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 (712 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,171 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.