Synthetic Probe

Synthetic Probe 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 Synthetic Probe

Copy Synthetic Probe 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/reached-path/fixtures/synthetic ~/.claude/skills/synthetic

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

What Synthetic Probe does

Synthetic Probe reads one of two reference files based on the selected route and returns the token it finds. Use it in eval arenas where an agent must follow a constrained file-reading path.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Use the Read tool to read references/active.md (relative to this skill directory).
Reply with exactly one line: ACTIVE=<token> where <token> is the token value from that file.

Route beta

Use the Read tool to read references/cold.md (relative to this skill directory).
Reply with exactly one line: COLD=<token> where <token> is the token value from that file.

Constraints

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

Frequently asked about Synthetic Probe

What else does gmickel publish alongside Synthetic Probe?
Synthetic Probe 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 Synthetic Probe 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 Synthetic Probe compare to other Automation skills?
Synthetic Probe ranks #1080 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 Synthetic Probe against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.