flow-next-strategy SKILL.md skillA

flow-next-strategy from gmickel/flow-next is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add gmickel/flow-next/flow-next-strategy@git:20261106.f99dbf0

Pins git:20261106.f99dbf0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
gmickel/flow-next
Path
plugins/flow-next/codex/skills/flow-next-strategy/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
14
Latest version
git:20261106.f99dbf0, committed Nov 6, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 2, 2026
Size
10,816 bytes
Repository stars
718
License
MIT

Create or update repo-root STRATEGY.md (problem, approach, users, metrics, tracks). Use for strategy or roadmap doc requests.

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

# /flow-next:strategy — repo-root STRATEGY.md anchor

`flow-next-strategy` produces and maintains `STRATEGY.md` — a short, durable anchor at the repo root (peer of `README.md` / `GLOSSARY.md`) that captures what the product is, who it serves, how it succeeds, and where the team is investing. Downstream skills (`/flow-next:prospect`, `/flow-next:plan`, `/flow-next:refine`, `/flow-next:capture`, `/flow-next:sync`) read it as grounding when `sections_filled >= 1`.

The document is short and structured on purpose. Good answers to a handful of sharp questions produce a better strategy than any amount of prose. This skill asks those questions, pushes back on weak answers, and writes the doc.

**Date the strategy document from `date -u +%Y-%m-%d`** (run it; never assume the year).

Read [working-rules.md](../../references/working-rules.md) first unless you already have this run; it holds for every step of this skill.

## Preamble

flowctl is **bundled — NOT installed globally.** `which flowctl` will fail (expected). Define once; subsequent blocks use `$FLOWCTL`:

```bash
FLOWCTL="${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}/scripts/flowctl"
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add gmickel/flow-next/flow-next-strategy@sha256:d2fa95b265bf08f7

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261106.f99dbf0, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 14 versions of this file, between Aug 2, 2026 and Nov 6, 2026, about one every 7 days.

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git:20260802.e34abed2026-08-02 e34abed 11,512 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10816 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

GitHub

gmickel/flow-next · 718 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ilg4egek5u25smps
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gmickel/flow-next/flow-next-strategy
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d2fa95b265bf08f7da21af4f96e6460aff8a72e91b16f5648ecd0afc32eaadf3

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