Flow Next Plan

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

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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/plugins/flow-next/skills/flow-next-plan ~/.claude/skills/flow-next-plan

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

What Flow Next Plan does

Flow Next Plan creates structured build plans from feature requests or Flow IDs. Use it when turning an understood request into a spec and task breakdown in .flow/ before implementation.

Flow Next Plan is cataloged under AI Engineering 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.

.flow/ is the only task tracker. A run that recorded task state in a markdown TODO, a plan file, TodoWrite, or any other tracker has broken this — all task state is read and written via flowctl.

Chart boundary (fn-135)

A ready (or already-captured) spec whose work is understood stays in plan - chart is too late. An unshaped oversized freeform idea with consequential unknowns is not plan input: recommend /flow-next:chart first (or /flow-next:guide when unsure). Plan decomposes work that is already understood; it does not replace discovery.

Preamble

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 AI Engineering skills?
Flow Next Plan ranks #1759 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 Plan against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.