flow-next-sync

Manual Plan-Sync

Manually trigger plan-sync to update downstream task specs.

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

Preamble

CRITICAL: flowctl is BUNDLED - NOT installed globally. 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"

Input

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS Format: <id> [--dry-run]

• <id> - task ID fn-N-slug.M (or legacy fn-N.M, fn-N-xxx.M) or spec ID fn-N-slug (or legacy fn-N, fn-N-xxx), or a resolvable tracker handle (wor-17 / wor-17.M) that flowctl show maps to the linked spec/task
• --dry-run - show changes without writing

Workflow

Step 1: Parse Arguments

REPO_ROOT="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || pwd)"

Parse $ARGUMENTS for:

• First positional arg = ID
• --dry-run flag = DRY_RUN (true/false)

Validate ID first (handle-recognition rule):

• The id is resolved by flowctl show, not by a prefix check. A session that rejects a resolvable tracker handle as an unknown id — because it gated on "must start with fn-" — has broken this. Route the arg through $FLOWCTL show <ID> --json (Step 3); flowctl's widened resolver maps a tracker key (wor-17 / wor-17.M) to its linked spec/task, so a resolvable handle is the existing spec/task, never a new id. /flow-next:sync wor-17 therefore resolves the linked spec.
• If no ID provided: "Usage: /flow-next:sync [--dry-run]"
• If the arg does not resolve via flowctl show (Step 3): "Unknown ID. Use fn-N-slug (spec) / fn-N-slug.M (task), a tracker handle (wor-17), or legacy fn-N, fn-N-xxx."