Ops Next

What it does

Example prompts

• “what should I do next”
• “/ops-next”

Requirements

• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash, Read, Grep, Glob, Skill, Agent, TeamCreate, SendMessage, AskUserQuestion, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate, WebFetch, mcp__linear__list_issues, mcp__claude_ai_Slack__slack_search_public_and_private

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Preferences: cat ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/plugins/data/ops-ops-marketplace}/preferences.json — read owner, primary_project…
2. 2Daemon health: cat ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR}/daemon-health.json — flag any action_needed as priority
3. 3Ops memories: Check ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR}/memories/topics_active.md for ongoing work context

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 10bfc43. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Bash
  • Read
  • Grep
  • Glob
  • Skill
  • Agent
  • TeamCreate
  • SendMessage
  • AskUserQuestion
  • TaskCreate

  …and 4 more on the same allowed-tools line.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • gh
  • jq

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use gh, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Ops Next loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 52 tokens; SKILL.md has 399 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~52

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

• NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md

  allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Grep, Glob, Skill, Agent, TeamCreate, SendMessage, AskUserQuestion, TaskCreate, TaskUpda

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from davepoon/buildwithclaude at commit 10bfc43, republished under its MIT licence (© davepoon). 399 words, ~1,428 tokens.

name

ops-next

description

Business-level "what should I do next". Priority stack — fires > unread comms > ready-to-merge PRs > Linear sprint > revenue-generating GSD work. Uses pre-gathered data and routes to the right skill.

allowed-tools

Bash, Read, Grep, Glob, Skill, Agent, TeamCreate, SendMessage, AskUserQuestion, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate, WebFetch, mcp__linear__list_issues, mcp__claude_ai_Slack__slack_search_public_and_private

argument-hint

[context]

effort

low

maxTurns

15

TeamCreate("next-team")
Agent(team_name="next-team", name="fires-checker", prompt="Check infra health and CI for production fires")
Agent(team_name="next-team", name="comms-checker", prompt="Check unread messages across all channels")
Agent(team_name="next-team", name="prs-checker", prompt="Find PRs ready to merge — CI green, reviews approved")
Agent(team_name="next-team", name="sprint-checker", prompt="Check Linear sprint for highest-priority in-progress issues")

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-infra 2>/dev/null || echo '{"clusters":[]}'

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-prs 2>/dev/null || echo '[]'

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-ci 2>/dev/null || echo '[]'

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-unread 2>/dev/null || echo '{}'

for d in $(jq -r '.projects[] | select(.gsd == true) | .paths[]' "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/registry.json" 2>/dev/null); do
  expanded="${d/#\~/$HOME}"
  if [ -f "$expanded/.planning/STATE.md" ]; then
    alias=$(basename "$expanded")
    cat "$expanded/.planning/STATE.md" 2>/dev/null | head -30
    echo "---NEXT---"
  fi
done

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 OPS ► NEXT ACTION
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

 TOP PRIORITY: [fires|comms|PR|sprint|gsd]
 ▶ [specific action in one sentence]

 WHY: [1-2 sentence rationale]

──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 Full priority stack:
 1. [action] — [why] → [/skill or command]
 2. [action] — [why] → [/skill or command]
 3. [action] — [why] → [/skill or command]
 4. [action] — [why] → [/skill or command]
 5. [action] — [why] → [/skill or command]

──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 a) Do #1 now
 b) Do #2 now
 c) Show me everything (/ops-go)
 d) I'll decide — just show the briefing

 → Pick or describe what you want
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────

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Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/claude-ops/skills/ops-next of davepoon/buildwithclaude.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 10bfc43