What's Next

What's Next is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by kharmanskyi in open-steps.

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Install What's Next

Copy What's Next 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/kharmanskyi/open-steps/tree/main/skills/os-whats-next ~/.claude/skills/os-whats-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/kharmanskyi/open-steps.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/os-whats-next/SKILL.md in kharmanskyi/open-steps
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/os-whats-next
Collection: One of 7 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3101 skills

What What's Next does

What's Next picks the next piece of work when you ask what to do now, what is left, or what is blocked. It reads recent state, open pull requests, and the backlog, then recommends one plain next task or a finished merge.

What's Next is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. What's Next comes from a repository tagged agent-skill, agent-skills, ai-agents, claude-code and claude-code-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

os-whats-next

Answer "what do we do now" with the next move, not a map. The user does not need the dependency graph - they need what got finished, what to take next, and why, in plain words. This skill decides; os-step-by-step walks the user through their part; os-done-or-not reports what came of it.

Language

Write in the language the user speaks in this session, detected from the conversation. Commands, file names and identifiers stay English.

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

Frequently asked about What's Next

What else does kharmanskyi publish alongside What's Next?
What's Next is one of 7 skills that DirSkills catalogs from kharmanskyi/open-steps, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Ask Simple, Check Work and Done Or Not. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way What's Next does, and is maintained by kharmanskyi in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the kharmanskyi/open-steps page.
How does What's Next compare to other AI Engineering skills?
What's Next ranks #2683 by stars among the 3101 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 What's Next against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.