Flow Next Pilot

Flow Next Pilot is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by gmickel in flow-next.

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Install Flow Next Pilot

Copy Flow Next Pilot 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-pilot ~/.claude/skills/flow-next-pilot

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-pilot/SKILL.md in gmickel/flow-next
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/flow-next-pilot
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Flow Next Pilot does

Flow Next Pilot advances one ready spec by exactly one pipeline stage per invocation and ends with a PILOT_VERDICT for the driver. Use it to run plan, review, work, qa, or make-pr steps in a host-controlled loop without asking the user questions.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

/flow-next:pilot — single-tick autonomous build-loop conductor

A tick is one invocation of /flow-next:pilot: select one ready spec, classify its current stage (plan, plan-review, work, the opt-in qa, make-pr), dispatch exactly one existing stage skill, verify state advanced, and end with one terminal PILOT_VERDICT line. It is intentionally not a runner; /loop in Claude Code or /goal in Claude Code / Codex owns repeated invocation.

Pilot and Ralph are alternative autonomous drivers. Ralph is an external shell loop with receipt plumbing; pilot is an in-session conductor for host loop primitives. Never nest them, and never reuse Ralph harness state inside pilot.

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

Commands Flow Next Pilot provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/loop
/goal

Frequently asked about Flow Next Pilot

What else does gmickel publish alongside Flow Next Pilot?
Flow Next Pilot 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 Pilot 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 Pilot compare to other Automation skills?
Flow Next Pilot ranks #1078 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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 Pilot against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.