Flow Next Plan

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

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

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Install Flow Next Plan

Copy Flow Next Plan 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/plan/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/plan/baseline/SKILL.md in gmickel/flow-next
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/baseline
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Flow Next Plan does

Flow Next Plan creates structured specs and task lists from feature requests or Flow IDs. Use it when planning a feature or refining an implementation plan without writing code.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Flow plan

Turn a rough idea into a spec with tasks in .flow/. This skill does not write code.

Follow this skill and linked workflows exactly. Deviations cause drift, bad gates, retries, and user frustration.

IMPORTANT: This plugin uses .flow/ for ALL task tracking. Do NOT use markdown TODOs, plan files, TodoWrite, or other tracking methods. All task state must be read and written via flowctl.

Preamble

CRITICAL: flowctl is BUNDLED — NOT installed globally. which flowctl will fail (expected). Define once; subsequent blocks (here and in steps.md) use $FLOWCTL:

FLOWCTL="${DROID_PLUGIN_ROOT:-${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}}/scripts/flowctl"
[ -x "$FLOWCTL" ] || FLOWCTL=".flow/bin/flowctl"

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

Frequently asked about Flow Next Plan

What else does gmickel publish alongside Flow Next Plan?
Flow Next Plan 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 Plan 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 Plan compare to other Automation skills?
Flow Next Plan ranks #1079 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 Plan against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.