Flow Next Guide

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

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Install Flow Next Guide

Copy Flow Next Guide 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/plugins/flow-next/skills/flow-next-guide ~/.claude/skills/flow-next-guide

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

What Flow Next Guide does

Flow Next Guide recommends the smallest sufficient flow-next route for a situation. Use it when you need to choose between strategy, prospecting, charting, capture, interview, plan, work, or visual review.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Guide - smallest-sufficient workflow router

Stateless prompt-first router. Recommends one next workflow from the starting state. Does not create specs, charts, tasks, artifacts, or flowctl state. Chart is an optional discovery route - never a mandatory stage and never a new pipeline stage.

Role: routing coordinator (inline skill - keep AskUserQuestion reachable). On portable hosts without AskUserQuestion, fall back to a plain-text numbered prompt with a final Other - type your own answer option. (sync-codex.sh rewrites AskUserQuestion to a plain-text numbered prompt in the Codex mirror.)

Preamble

CRITICAL: flowctl is BUNDLED - NOT installed globally. which flowctl will fail (expected). Define once; probe blocks use $FLOWCTL:

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

Frequently asked about Flow Next Guide

What else does gmickel publish alongside Flow Next Guide?
Flow Next Guide 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 Guide 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 Guide compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Flow Next Guide ranks #1757 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 Guide against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.