Next Action

by agenticnotetaking

Next Action is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by agenticnotetaking in arscontexta.

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claude-codeclaude-code-pluginknowledge-baseknowledge-managementmarkdownsecond-brain

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Install Next Action

Copy Next Action 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/agenticnotetaking/arscontexta/tree/main/skill-sources/next ~/.claude/skills/next

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/agenticnotetaking/arscontexta.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skill-sources/next/SKILL.md in agenticnotetaking/arscontexta
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/next
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Next Action does

Next Action surfaces the most valuable next action by combining task stack, queue state, inbox pressure, health, and goals. Use it with /next or asking what to do next to get one specific action with rationale.

Next Action is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Next Action comes from a repository tagged claude-code, claude-code-plugin, knowledge-base, knowledge-management and markdown.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Runtime Configuration (Step 0 — before any processing)

Read these files to configure domain-specific behavior:

ops/derivation-manifest.md — vocabulary mapping, domain context
- Use vocabulary.notes for the notes folder name
- Use vocabulary.inbox for the inbox folder name
- Use vocabulary.note for the note type name in output
- Use vocabulary.topic_map for MOC references
- Use vocabulary.cmd_reduce for process/extract command
- Use vocabulary.cmd_reflect for connection-finding command
- Use vocabulary.cmd_reweave for backward-pass command
- Use vocabulary.rethink for rethink command name

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

Commands Next Action provides

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

/next
/health
/remember
/ralph
/rethink

Frequently asked about Next Action

What else does agenticnotetaking publish alongside Next Action?
Next Action is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from agenticnotetaking/arscontexta, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Add Domain, Ars Contexta Setup and Ars Contexta Tutorial. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Next Action does, and is maintained by agenticnotetaking in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the agenticnotetaking/arscontexta page.
How does Next Action compare to other Automation skills?
Next Action ranks #345 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 Next Action against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.