flow

flow is a skill for Claude Code from Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops. It costs 29 tokens per session (2,684 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow guide for routing software work through development stages such as building, testing, reviewing, and shipping. It can coordinate separate agents when a stage has independent work, including work across multiple repositories.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for requests involving the development lifecycle, the `/ops:flow` command, parallel build and test work, or coordinated multi-repository releases.
Why use it?
It helps decide what should happen next in a development task and coordinate work that can run in parallel.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool; built for gstack.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the ops plugin — 66 skills, 21 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it for requests involving the development lifecycle, the /ops:flow command, parallel build and test work, or coordinated multi-repository releases.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops
Claude Code
/plugin install ops

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 66 skills, 21 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,684 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 $0.00029 $0.02684
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01342
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00537
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00268

Measured 8d ago against content hash a761ba6be329, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 8d 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.

claude-ops/skills/flow/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Teams support

If CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1 is set, use Agent Teams when a lifecycle stage fans out into parallel, coordinated work (e.g. build + test + review running together, or a multi-repo ship). This enables:

  • Stage agents share context mid-flight (the test agent surfaces a regression → the build agent pivots before review starts)
  • You can steer priorities in real time ("land the API change first, then docs")
  • Agents report progress as each stage completes, so you sequence the merge

Team setup (only when the flag is enabled, and only for genuinely parallel stages):

TeamCreate("flow-lifecycle")
Agent(team_name="flow-lifecycle", name="stage-build", ...)
Agent(team_name="flow-lifecycle", name="stage-test", ...)

Steer with SendMessage / broadcast; share work via TaskCreate/TaskUpdate.

If the flag is NOT set, fall back to standard fire-and-forget subagents (the default), or just route the stage to its single canonical command inline.

Runtime Context

Before routing, compute where the user is on the lifecycle:

# FLOW_TARGET: the project you are actually working on. Default to the shell's
# cwd, but pass an explicit path when the harness's tool cwd is not the project
# (see the mode-resolution note below).
FLOW_TARGET="${FLOW_TARGET:-$PWD}"
FLOW_STATE=""
for _d in "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-}" \
          "$HOME/Developer/repos/claude-ops/claude-ops" \
          "$HOME/external-skills/claude-ops" \
          "$HOME/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/ops-marketplace/claude-ops" \
          "$HOME/Projects/claude-ops/claude-ops"; do
  [ -n "$_d" ] && [ -x "$_d/bin/flow-state" ] && { FLOW_STATE="$_d/bin/flow-state"; break; }
done
[ -n "$FLOW_STATE" ] || { echo "flow: no executable bin/flow-state found" >&2; exit 1; }
"$FLOW_STATE" "$FLOW_TARGET"

Both failures are fail-closed on purpose. If no helper resolves, or the target path is not a directory, stop and say so — do not route. MODE is what decides GSD vs gstack, so routing without it silently picks the wrong half of the lifecycle, which is worse than an error.

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 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. 8d ago First seen · 184 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A a761ba6be329

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flow is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops (186 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 2,684 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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