Flow Next Capture

Flow Next Capture is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by gmickel in flow-next.

685 stars54 forkson gmickel/flow-nextAdded 2026/08/23Repository updated 2026/08/22

agentic-workflowai-agentai-workflowanthropicautonomous-agentclaude-codeclaude-code-pluginclicode-reviewcodexexecutionfactory-droidmarketplaceopenai-codexplanningpluginralph-modesdlcspec-driven-developmentworkflow

Install in seconds

Install Flow Next Capture

Copy Flow Next Capture into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/gmickel/flow-next/tree/main/optimization/capture/baseline ~/.claude/skills/baseline

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/gmickel/flow-next.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: optimization/capture/baseline/SKILL.md in gmickel/flow-next
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/baseline
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Flow Next Capture does

Flow Next Capture turns a conversation into a flow-next spec with source tags, then asks for read-back before writing it. Use it when a discussion has enough detail to become `.flow/specs/<spec-id>.md`.

Flow Next Capture is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Flow Next Capture comes from a repository tagged agentic-workflow, ai-agent, ai-workflow, anthropic and autonomous-agent.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

/flow-next:capture — agent-native conversation → spec

A free-form discussion (or a /flow-next:prospect survivor) frequently produces enough material for a complete spec, but stops short of the formal flowctl spec create + spec set-plan heredoc documented in CLAUDE.md. Without an explicit synthesis step, that context decays — the next session loses the conversation, the spec never lands, and the user re-explains the same idea to /flow-next:plan.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Flow Next Capture

What else does gmickel publish alongside Flow Next Capture?
Flow Next Capture is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from gmickel/flow-next, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Codebase Feature Map, Export Context and Flow Interview. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Flow Next Capture does, and is maintained by gmickel in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the gmickel/flow-next page.
How does Flow Next Capture compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Flow Next Capture ranks #1754 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Flow Next Capture against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.