whats-next

whats-next is a skill for Claude Code from lycfyi/yskills. It costs 228 tokens per session (2,051 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session handoff tool that rebuilds your understanding of ongoing work after a break or in a new context. It summarizes the relevant conversation or repository and presents a small set of next-step choices.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps resume work across sessions, inspect a worktree or branch, review uncommitted changes and commits, and choose the next action.
Why use it?
Returning to a project can otherwise mean searching through old messages or facing an empty prompt. This tool helps you quickly see what changed, what remains, and what decision is needed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the yskills plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps resume work across sessions, inspect a worktree or branch, review uncommitted changes and commits, and choose the next action.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lycfyi/yskills/whats-next
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 lycfyi/yskills --skill whats-next
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lycfyi/yskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install yskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 228 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,051 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 $0.00228 $0.02051
Opus 5 $0.00114 $0.01026
Sonnet 5 $0.00046 $0.00410
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00205

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2ce9cb3d57ff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

whats-next 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.

skills/whats-next/SKILL.md · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

What's Next

The user runs many sessions in parallel and comes back after hours away. They cannot remember where this conversation stands. The job: rebuild the state FOR them, then hand them a small set of concrete, clickable decisions — never a blank prompt to fill in.

Match the language of the conversation.

Workflow

0. Pick the evidence source

Two invocation shapes, same downstream flow:

  • Warm session — there is real conversation history: the conversation IS the record. Go straight to step 1.
  • Cold start / named target — a fresh context, or the user points at a worktree, branch, or repo path ("这个 worktree 的 diffs", "新分支做到哪了"). There is no conversation to mine; rebuild state from repo evidence instead:
    • Resolve the target first. If ambiguous, git worktree list / branch list. Don't infer the base/target branch from branch names alone — check the remote HEAD or whatever tool of record the setup has. One clarifying question max.
    • Read, in rough priority order: uncommitted changes (git status + diff of the working tree), branch commits not on the base branch (git log base..HEAD with --stat), the actual diff vs. base when commit messages aren't enough, any task/handoff doc that scopes this work (a handoff doc in the repo, the PR description, an issue-tracker ticket named in commits), and recent-commit trailers that record acceptance/deploy state.
    • The mapping: committed-and-merged → DONE; committed on branch but not merged → done-but-not-landed; uncommitted diff → in flight; task-doc items with no corresponding diff → planned, not started. A step described in a doc with no code evidence did NOT happen.
    • Don't read every file end-to-end — read enough to name the milestones and the fork points, and say when a judgment rests on commit messages alone.

1. Reconstruct state (silently)

From the evidence source chosen above, determine:

  • The overall goal of this session, in one sentence.
  • What is already DONE and verified (committed? deployed? approved?). A big code or rule change that is deployed but not yet manually verified by the user is NOT done — classify it as awaiting-manual-verification, a state of its own.
  • What is IN FLIGHT: background agents, workflows, deploys, external waits. Never fabricate a result for anything still running — report it as pending.
  • What is BLOCKED and on what — especially things blocked on the user's own decision.
  • What was PLANNED but not started.

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 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. 8d ago First seen · 158 lines · 228 tokens per session scan A 2ce9cb3d57ff

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whats-next is a skill published in the GitHub repository lycfyi/yskills (23 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 228 tokens to every session and 2,051 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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