qstack-next

A command that recommends the single installed skill to run next based on the conversation, project plan files, and working-tree state. It reports the next step but does not run that skill.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after completing a task or running a workflow to see what remains and which skill should handle it next.
Why use it?
It helps identify unfinished work when a project has several possible next actions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/hani-q/qstack/qstack-next
Any agent
npx skills add hani-q/qstack --skill qstack-next
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hani-q/qstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 889 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00063 $0.00889
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00445
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00089

Measured yesterday against content hash 090d2e4874f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

qstack-next scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Enumerates other installed skillsmediumAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

The listing command in `/qstack` prints them; `ls ~/.claude/skills
skills/qstack-next/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/qstack-next

Say what was just done, what that leaves undone, and the one skill that closes the gap. Three or four lines. Name the skill; never run it.

Evidence, heaviest first

  1. The plan folder. Files on disk say where the work is more reliably than the conversation does. See the table below.
  2. The working tree. git branch --show-current, git status --short, git log --oneline -5. Uncommitted changes mean work that is not yet verified or reviewed.
  3. The conversation. What the user asked last, what was produced, what was verified. Facts, not tone: "it's broken" followed by three guards and no reproduction is evidence; a frustrated message is not.

Read what you need and no more. This skill is read-only.

The plan lifecycle

Plan folders are qstack/compound_engineering/plans/<slug>/, or the legacy compound-engineering/plans/<slug>/. The folder whose slug matches the branch or the conversation is the one that matters. Its files arrive in a fixed order, and the first one missing is the next step:

The folder has Run next
Nothing yet, and the user is describing a feature or change /qstack-plan-prior-art, then draft plan.md
plan.md and no plan.html /qstack-plan-to-html
plan.html with notes at data-status="open" /qstack-ask-plan-open-questions
plan.html and no board-events.js, or a board without its complete-breakdown marker /qstack-plan-to-html to finish the board
board-events.js with cards still open the execution loop execution.md shows was used; /qstack-loop-no-nonsense when it shows none
every card closed and no outcome.md /qstack-plan-adherence-review, then /qstack-plan-close
outcome.md nothing from the lifecycle

Work with no plan folder and no feature being described is outside the lifecycle; do not push it in.

Outside the lifecycle

Match the conversation against the description: of every installed skill. The listing command in /qstack prints them; ls ~/.claude/skills ~/.codex/skills ~/.agents/skills names them. Each description says when its skill applies; that text is the rule, so this file does not repeat it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. yesterday First seen · 84 lines · 63 tokens per session scan B 090d2e4874f7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

qstack-next is a skill published in the GitHub repository hani-q/qstack (7 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 889 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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