the-flow

the-flow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jakkaj/tools. It costs 252 tokens per session (4,898 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A single entry point for a software development planning workflow. It covers research, planning, design decisions, task breakdown, implementation, progress tracking, review, and release.

In plain words
What is it for?
Researching a problem, writing a business and implementation plan, discussing design choices, creating phase tasks, and guiding development through review and release.
Why use it?
It gives a coding project one guided path from an idea to shipped work. This helps keep decisions, plans, and tasks connected.

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/jakkaj/tools/the-flow
Any agent
npx skills add jakkaj/tools --skill the-flow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jakkaj/tools

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 252 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,898 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 $0.00252 $0.04898
Opus 5 $0.00126 $0.02449
Sonnet 5 $0.00050 $0.00980
Haiku 4.5 $0.00025 $0.00490

Measured 4d ago against content hash 34a961e4e122, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

the-flow 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.

skills/SDD/the-flow/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/the-flow — SDD pipeline dispatch

One public skill for the whole SDD pipeline, built to the flow-architecture pattern (docs/skills-pipeline/flow-architecture.md): the sub-skills (contract-bound verbs, one per stage) live in references/stages/, the guided-mode engine in references/00-routing.md, the coaching voice in references/coach.md. New to the flow? references/getting-started.md.

Progressive disclosure is the contract: load exactly one sub-skill for the current step — never read all of them up front.

Two load paths

Guided/the-flow (no args, or <slug> / <ord>-<slug>):

  1. Read references/00-routing.md (entry paths, state contract, the Graph) and references/coach.md (rail, narration, print-then-offer).
  2. Resolve fresh / resume / adopt per 00-routing.md; load only the current stage's sub-skill when a step is accepted, and coach the seam.
  3. Guided mode owns all the-flow state, and drives all of it — position and session bag — through harness flow nav calls: the flight plan (the-flow.jsonthe-flow.md) is the single state substrate (plan 024 — the CLI is the generator; nothing is hand-written; run the capability precheck first, § Prerequisite). Before the first flight-plan mutation of a session, also load references/flight-plan-ops.md — the nav model, the spine-vs-excursion rule, and the verb flags + gotchas (loaded on demand, not up front; sub-skills never load it).

Direct jump/the-flow <id> <verb> [flags]:

  1. Resolve the stage via the Registry below. Id and verb each resolve alone (typing 6 ≡ typing implement); when both are given they must name the same stage — if they disagree, show the Registry and ask which was meant (never guess).
  2. Read only that sub-skill and follow it with the given flags (same flags the verb has always taken).
  3. No coach, no rail, no state writes — and no harness seams (harness orchestration is the guided engine's job — direct-jump runs the bare verb, harness-less by design). Artifacts land where they always did; the next guided run discovers them by existence and catches state up.

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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. 4d ago First seen · 115 lines · 252 tokens per session scan A 34a961e4e122

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the-flow is a skill published in the GitHub repository jakkaj/tools (5 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 252 tokens to every session and 4,898 once invoked, about $0.0013 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 2026-08-31.

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