flow-next-strategy

flow-next-strategy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gmickel/flow-next. It costs 33 tokens per session (3,115 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository document that records the product problem, approach, users, measures of success, and areas of investment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or update a project strategy and keep its roadmap and priorities anchored in the repository.
Why use it?
It gives later planning and project work a shared reference point instead of relying on scattered or temporary notes.

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 — 32 skills, 28 commands, 20 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create or update a project strategy and keep its…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gmickel/flow-next/flow-next-strategy
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-strategy
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.

agentmods badge for flow-next-strategy

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gmickel/flow-next/flow-next-strategy"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gmickel/flow-next/flow-next-strategy.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,115 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 $0.00033 $0.03115
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01558
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00623
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00312

Measured 7d ago against content hash 1222313b4b94, 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-strategy 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-strategy/SKILL.md · 202 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 202 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/flow-next:strategy — repo-root STRATEGY.md anchor

flow-next-strategy produces and maintains STRATEGY.md — a short, durable anchor at the repo root (peer of README.md / GLOSSARY.md) that captures what the product is, who it serves, how it succeeds, and where the team is investing. Downstream skills (/flow-next:prospect, /flow-next:plan, /flow-next:interview, /flow-next:capture, /flow-next:sync) read it as grounding when sections_filled >= 1.

The document is short and structured on purpose. Good answers to a handful of sharp questions produce a better strategy than any amount of prose. This skill asks those questions, pushes back on weak answers, and writes the doc.

Note: The current year is 2026. Use this when dating the strategy document.

Preamble

flowctl is bundled — NOT installed globally. which flowctl will fail (expected). Define once; subsequent 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"

Interaction Method

Ask the user via plain text. Render the options below as a numbered list 1.N., followed by a final option N+1. Other — type your own answer. Print the question, then the numbered list, then stop and wait for the user's next message before continuing. Parse the reply as: a bare number 1N+1 → that option; the literal text of an option label → that option; free text after Other → custom answer.

Default to plain-text numbered prompt. Never silently skip the question.

Ask one question at a time. Free-form responses for the substantive sections (Target problem / Our approach / Who it's for / Key metrics / Tracks). Single-select with lead-with-recommendation only for routing decisions (which section to revisit, include this optional section, foreign-file resolution).

Read the full file on GitHub · 202 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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 · 202 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 1222313b4b94

Subscribe to this mod's changes

flow-next-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository gmickel/flow-next (691 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 3,115 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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