next-step

next-step is a skill for Claude Code from sd0xdev/sd0x-harness. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,559 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A change-aware advisor that examines the current Git worktree, review state, project phase, and required checks to suggest the next development step. A Git worktree is the set of files currently checked out in a repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to get findings from the current repository, progress through an unfinished feature workflow, or summarize completed work and prepare a commit description.
Why use it?
It helps when a session starts with unfinished changes or when the workflow is unclear. It points out missing gates, such as code review or tests, before suggesting what to do next.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the sd0x-dev-flow plugin — 101 skills, 16 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to get findings from the current repository, progress through an unfinished feature workflow, or summarize completed work and prepare a commit description.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness/next-step
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 sd0xdev/sd0x-harness --skill next-step
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sd0x-dev-flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 101 skills, 16 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,559 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 61
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00063 $0.01559
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00624
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00312
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00156

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b8fc41d2b49c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

next-step 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/analyze.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/next-step/SKILL.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Next Step Advisor

When NOT to Use

  • Auto-loop already handling review/precommit flow (hooks track and assist)
  • User gave a clear, specific instruction (just do it)
  • Mid-execution of a skill workflow (follow that skill's progression)

Procedure

  1. Run bash scripts/run-skill.sh next-step analyze.js to collect deterministic findings
  2. Parse the JSON output — findings, gates, diff summary, phase, feature_context, next_actions, backlog
  3. If P0/P1 findings exist → format top 3 as actionable suggestions (Findings Mode)
  4. If mid-pipeline (gates not all passed, no P0/P1) → use progression tables to suggest next step
  5. If phase = post_precommit → suggest doc sync + request update (use next_actions)
  6. If phase = feature_complete → output feature complete summary with backlog
  7. If all gates pass and no P0/P1 → output session summary with commit seed (Summary Mode, P2/P3 shown as oversights)

Script Integration

The analyze script runs 18 deterministic heuristics against git state, review state, and feature context:

Priority Heuristics Meaning
P0 Gate missing (code review, doc review, precommit) Required steps not completed
P1 Test gap, security hotspot, migration risk, doc-sync-needed, request-stale, corpus-unreadable Important oversights
P2 README missing, skill-lint needed, locale drift, mixed concerns, ac-incomplete, intent-advisory (planning docs without exact intent-.md) Quality improvements
P3 Main branch warning, requirements-advisory, feature-complete Informational

The script exits with code 0 (no P0/P1), 1 (has P1), or 2 (has P0).

Output Fields (v2)

Field Type Description
phase string mid_development / post_precommit / ready_to_commit / feature_complete / clean
feature_context object { key, source, confidence, docs_path, has_tech_spec, has_requirements, has_requests }
next_actions array [{ id, command, args, reason, confidence }] sorted by confidence desc
backlog object/null { total_features, incomplete_features } — only when phase = feature_complete

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 1mo ago First seen · 156 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A b8fc41d2b49c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

next-step is a skill published in the GitHub repository sd0xdev/sd0x-harness (194 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,559 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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