flow-next-refine SKILL.md skillA
flow-next-refine from gmickel/flow-next is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add gmickel/flow-next/flow-next-refine@git:20261106.f99dbf0Pins 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/skills/flow-next-refine/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 15
- Latest version
- git:20261106.f99dbf0, committed Nov 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 11, 2026
- Size
- 21,616 bytes
- Repository stars
- 718
- License
- MIT
Refine a spec, task, or spec file before building - one question pass for the decisions that would change what gets built, optionally focused by a free-text --scope lens (business, technical, qa, ...), or a read-only research pass (--scope=research) that resolves library versions, changed APIs, and gotchas from external docs into the spec. Use when a named product, authority, or costly-to-reverse technical decision is open, or when the spec names a library or API the repo does not already use.…
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 refine
Refine a spec, task, or spec file: settle the decisions that would change what gets built and that only the person can make, then write the answers back. Everything else you resolve by investigation, record, or leave to implementation. `--scope=research` is a separate pass that asks nothing and writes the spec's external-library unknowns back from official docs.
All task state is read and written through `flowctl`; `.flow/` is the only tracker (no markdown TODOs, plan files or TodoWrite).
Refine clarifies a spec that can already be specified. Route back to `/flow-next:chart` only when the answers show the effort itself is not yet specifiable; unsure of the hop, use `flow-next:flow-next-flow --explain`.
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` fails). Define once; later blocks use `$FLOWCTL`:
```bash
FLOWCTL="${DROID_PLUGIN_ROOT:-${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}}/scripts/flowctl"
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add gmickel/flow-next/flow-next-refine@sha256:e060ff1ba0b3eb19The 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_qc5sv4t3l6g36svk)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 15 versions of this file, between Sep 11, 2026 and Nov 6, 2026, about one every 4 days.
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| git:20261106.f99dbf0 latest | 2026-11-06 | f99dbf0 | 21,616 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261027.272a402 | 2026-10-27 | 272a402 | 21,596 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261009.2e870de | 2026-10-09 | 2e870de | 21,467 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261005.03ae8e1 | 2026-10-05 | 03ae8e1 | 20,675 B | A | view · diff |
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| git:20260911.f92da65 | 2026-09-11 | f92da65 | 42,013 B | A | view |
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Source
gmickel/flow-next · 718 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qc5sv4t3l6g36svk GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gmickel/flow-next/flow-next-refine GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e060ff1ba0b3eb191a0cdd6b2652542bc5e1bc83a60a3258ca1e7b17eae2fc9a
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