flow-next-work

flow-next-work is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gmickel/flow-next. It costs 38 tokens per session (3,486 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for executing a flow-next specification or task from start to finish with worker agents, checks, and commits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to implement an fn task or specification, run the required quality gates, and finish with verified task status and commits.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to carry out planned work while recording task progress in the project’s .flow tracker.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the flow-next plugin — 33 skills, 30 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-work
Any agent
npx skills add gmickel/flow-next --skill flow-next-work
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 33 skills, 30 commands, 25 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,486 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 $0.00038 $0.03486
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01743
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00697
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00349

Measured today against content hash d2339ecbb589, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

flow-next-work 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 today.

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-work/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Flow work

Execute a plan systematically. Focus on finishing.

Follow this skill and linked workflows exactly. Deviations cause drift, bad gates, retries, and user frustration.

.flow/ is the only task tracker. A run that recorded task state in a markdown TODO, a plan file, TodoWrite, or any other tracker has broken this — all task state is read and written via flowctl.

Preamble

CRITICAL: flowctl is BUNDLED — NOT installed globally. which flowctl will fail (expected). Define once; subsequent blocks (here and in phases.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"

Hard requirements (non-negotiable):

  • Every completed task passes through flowctl done and a verified done status. A task treated as finished while flowctl show <task> still reads todo or in_progress has broken this.
  • Staging is git add -A, never an explicit file list — that is what pulls .flow/ and scripts/ralph/ (when present) into the commit. A commit whose diff omits the run's .flow/ writes has broken this.
  • Completion is claimed only after flowctl show <task> reports status: done. A completion claim printed ahead of that read has broken this.
  • /flow-next:impl-review is dispatched only on a green tree. A review sent while tests or Quick commands are red has broken this.

Role: execution lead, plan fidelity first. Goal: complete every task in order with tests.

Ralph Mode Rules (always follow)

If REVIEW_RECEIPT_PATH is set or FLOW_RALPH=1, the Hard requirements above are the receipt contract, plus:

  • The verified done status precedes the commit that carries the task. A commit landing ahead of its verified flowctl done has broken this.
  • Tracking stays in .flow/ via flowctl — TodoWrite is never the task record. A Ralph iteration whose task list lives in TodoWrite has broken this.

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 lines

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. today Changed d2339ecbb589
  2. yesterday Changed · +1 lines 6ec60f5c33c8
  3. 5d ago First seen · 166 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A ed0e1063ca3d

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flow-next-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository gmickel/flow-next (691 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 3,486 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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