flow-phases

flow-phases is a skill for Claude Code from HigorAlves/orc. It costs 62 tokens per session (435 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A collection of playbooks for the separate phases of a software workflow, from planning and implementation through quality checks, delivery, and cleanup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide a structured development flow covering plans, worktrees, implementation batches, QA, shipping, and follow-up fixes.
Why use it?
It keeps each phase focused and ensures the relevant instructions are loaded only when that phase begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the orc plugin — 80 skills, 30 commands, 14 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to guide a structured development flow covering plans, worktrees, implementation batches, QA, shipping, and follow-up fixes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/higoralves/orc/flow-phases
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 HigorAlves/orc --skill flow-phases
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HigorAlves/orc

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install orc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 80 skills, 30 commands, 14 agents, 5 hooks.

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-phases

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 435 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 $0.00062 $0.00435
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00217
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00044

Measured 4d ago against content hash bfe850623945, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

flow-phases 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 4d 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.

orc/skills/flow-phases/SKILL.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

Flow Phases

The phase bodies of /orc:flow, disclosed progressively — the command's entry point carries routing, triage, and the gates; each phase's full playbook loads only when the flow reaches it.

Protocol: entering phase N → Read exactly references/PHASE-<N>-<NAME>.md, then execute it. Never run a phase from memory, never read phases ahead of the one being entered, and never read a phase the run skips.

Phase File
2 — RFC (optional) PHASE-2-RFC.md
3 — Plan PHASE-3-PLAN.md
4 — Start (worktree + failing test) PHASE-4-START.md
5 — Implement (orc-implementer batches) PHASE-5-IMPLEMENT.md
6 — QA PHASE-6-QA.md
7 — Ship PHASE-7-SHIP.md
8 — Address PHASE-8-ADDRESS.md
9 — Cleanup PHASE-9-CLEANUP.md

Phases 0–1 (context detection, triage, the sprint contract) live in the command itself — they run on every invocation.

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 4d ago First seen · 24 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A bfe850623945

Subscribe to this mod's changes

flow-phases is a skill published in the GitHub repository HigorAlves/orc (6 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 435 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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