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next is agent-read markdown (skill) from swingerman/engineer: 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"..
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns 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@git:20260729.715119emdr add swingerman/engineer/next@sha256:b65bb971e36b06a7Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_4zkzhivxozoluy44)
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260729.715119e latest | 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 (12331 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 · 150 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-22 · 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/b65bb971e36b06a7f0be7e45462ba703af0c9649a4d864d70e5ce16259703321
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