next SKILL.md skillA
next from swingerman/engineer is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add swingerman/engineer/next@git:20261020.a98004ePins git:20261020.a98004e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- swingerman/engineer
- Path
engineer/skills/next/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20261020.a98004e, committed Oct 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 19, 2026
- Size
- 12,694 bytes
- Repository stars
- 162
- License
- MIT
Use at the start of a work session, or any time the question is "what should I pick up now" across the whole project. Triggers — "/engineer.next", "what's next", "what should I work on", "what should I do next", "where do I pick up".
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# next
The session-start skill — the human's re-entry point. Surveys every source of DAE state and answers one question: **what should I pick up now?**
Read-only and advisory. It changes nothing, produces no artifact, and emits **no handoff** (the recommendation is the whole output; a handoff would just restate it). This is a deliberate exception to the agentic-summary contract — `next` is a query, not a task that changes state.
`next` is the read-side bookend to `session-summary`: `session-summary` writes "here's where I left off, next tasks" at session end; `next` consumes that — and everything else — at session start.
## When to use
Start of a session, or any "what now?" moment. Project-scope; surveys the whole project — there is no narrower scope.
**Not for:** loading context on a feature you've already chosen (`prime-context`); checking artifact consistency (`consistency-check`); a per-feature next-step (each skill's handoff already carries `recommended_next`).
## Workflow
### Step 1 — Resolve and survey
Resolve the methodology root + manifest via `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/dae_resolve.py` (see `references/resolving.md`). Then read, read-only:
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add swingerman/engineer/next@sha256:54b5efe4bd63556eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.a98004e, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_4zkzhivxozoluy44)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jun 19, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 25 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261020.a98004e latest | 2026-10-20 | a98004e | 12,694 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260729.715119e | 2026-07-29 | 715119e | 12,331 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260710.5dd248a | 2026-07-10 | 5dd248a | 12,084 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260627.576fd6a | 2026-06-27 | 576fd6a | 11,302 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260621.aec5f95 | 2026-06-21 | aec5f95 | 8,874 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260619.d0fa8c9 | 2026-06-19 | d0fa8c9 | 7,471 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12694 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
swingerman/engineer · 162 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-27 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4zkzhivxozoluy44 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=swingerman/engineer/next GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/54b5efe4bd63556ec3c3d0ffd97c70ab555ab0f667bb8105a262f7830d6a69ef
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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