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Suggest next actions after completing any task. Auto-invocation via Stop hook + UserPromptSubmit reactive backstop, owned by the `next-invocation-guard` plugin (local-only, ported from `resources/next-trigger.sh` + `resources/next-reactive-guard.sh`). Fires when assistant response contains completion keywords (locale patterns in `data/*.regex`). stall-detect - detect stalled follow-up steps and invoke /fix [stall-detect.md], ask-gates - recording-skip / decision-deferral forced-ask / TaskList primary-source / current-work confirmation gates [ask-gates.md], suggestion-patterns - per-context "After X" next-action option templates [suggestion-patterns.md]. Use when "next action", "what next", "stall", "stuck", "not progressing", "follow-up missing" is mentioned.

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Downloads

2.8k

Updated

Oct 9, 2026

Version

0.11.0

Source

CLAWHUB

About

What it does, and when to use it.

Capability contract not published. No trust telemetry is available yet. 2.8K downloads reported by the source. Last updated 10/9/2026.

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Contract metadata is missing or unavailable for deterministic execution.

Risk flags: missing_or_unavailable_contract, trust_data_unavailable, schema_references_missing

Public facts

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Vendor: Clawhubvendor · observed Oct 9, 2026
Protocol compatibility: OpenClawcompatibility · observed Oct 9, 2026
Adoption signal: 2.8K downloadsadoption · observed Oct 9, 2026
Latest release: 0.11.0release · observed Sep 30, 2026
Handshake status: UNKNOWNsecurity

Install and run

Setup complexity: low.

clawhub skill install s17ay1v6v88r2m102pvvc44gz183qcrm:next

Install using `clawhub skill install s17ay1v6v88r2m102pvvc44gz183qcrm:next` in an isolated environment before connecting it to live workloads.
No published capability contract is available yet, so validate auth and request/response behavior manually.
Review the upstream CLAWHUB listing at https://clawhub.ai/drumrobot/next before using production credentials.

Contract: missing

curl -s "https://www.xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/clawhub-drumrobot-next/snapshot"

Documentation

CLAWHUB

153,455 characters of source documentation, loaded on request.

Extracted files

5 files captured from the source.

SKILL.md

---
metadata:
  author: es6kr
  version: "0.1.1"
name: next
depends-on:
  - fix
  - hook-kit
description: |
  Suggest next actions after completing any task. Auto-invocation via Stop hook + UserPromptSubmit reactive backstop, owned by the `next-invocation-guard` plugin (local-only, ported from `resources/next-trigger.sh` + `resources/next-reactive-guard.sh`). Fires when assistant response contains completion keywords (locale patterns in `data/*.regex`).
  stall-detect - detect stalled follow-up steps and invoke /fix [stall-detect.md], ask-gates - recording-skip / decision-deferral forced-ask / TaskList primary-source / current-work confirmation gates [ask-gates.md], suggestion-patterns - per-context "After X" next-action option templates [suggestion-patterns.md].
  Use when "next action", "what next", "stall", "stuck", "not progressing", "follow-up missing" is mentioned.
---

# Next Action Suggester

## Topic Dispatch

**When this skill is invoked with a topic specifier (e.g., `/next suggestion-patterns` or `Skill("next", "suggestion-patterns")`), load and follow only the matching topic file. Do not echo the Topics table or summarize other topics in the response.** The Topics table below is an index — for a normal invocation, follow the Instructions and Read each topic when you reach the step that references it.

## Topics

| Topic | Description | Guide |
|-------|-------------|-------|
| stall-detect | Detect stalled follow-up steps and invoke /fix | [stall-detect.md](./stall-detect.md) |
| ask-gates | Step 0.3/0.4/0.45/0.5/0.7 ask gates: recording-skip, decision-deferral forced-ask, invocation-argument priority, TaskList primary-source, current-work confirmation | [ask-gates.md](./ask-gates.md) |
| suggestion-patterns | Per-context "After X" next-action option templates | [suggestion-patterns.md](./suggestion-patterns.md) |

After task completion, use `AskUserQuestion` to suggest next steps and get user selection.

## When to use

Use `next` skill in the following scenarios:
- **Explicit invocation**: When the user explicitly calls `/next` or requests next actions ("what next", "next action").
  - **User Analysis Request Priority (HARD STOP)**: When `/next` is invoked alongside a specific request to analyze an issue or cause (e.g. `/next/fix analyze why next wasn't called`), perform the 5-Why analysis and present the investigation report **FIRST thing** before presenting any `AskUserQuestion` options.
- **Automatic trigger (in supported environments)**: In environments with Stop-hook support (`resources/next-trigger.sh`), auto-triggers on completion keywords.
- **Manual auto-invocation prohibition (HARD STOP)**: In environments without active Stop hooks (or after completing recording/fix tasks), do NOT manually append `next` options unless explicitly requested by the user or required by `ask-gates.md`. Specifically after `/fix` execution, do NOT automatically invoke `next` unless `/next` was explicitly requested in the user prompt.

After task

_meta.json

{
  "ownerId": "kn74k8yfvftx6f062qa8fzyd8h8373jd",
  "slug": "next",
  "version": "0.11.0",
  "publishedAt": 1790778072862
}

ask-gates.md

# Ask Gates — recording-skip / TaskList primary-source / current-work confirmation

> **Applies even when this file wasn't Read this turn (HARD STOP — recurrence, 3rd occurrence)**: a Stop hook (e.g. `next-invocation-guard`'s `next-trigger.sh`) can force an `AskUserQuestion` directly, without `Skill("next")` ever being invoked — its block message reads narrowly as "just call AskUserQuestion, nothing else." That narrow framing is not license to skip the cross-cutting rules that would normally apply via this file and `suggestion-patterns.md`. The PR/issue full-URL requirement (`suggestion-patterns.md` "Cross-cutting rule — PR/issue references in options require the full URL") applies to **every** `AskUserQuestion` that references a PR/issue number, regardless of entry path. Recurrence: `failed-attempts.md` "ask-option-pr-ref-missing-url" (3rd, 2026-08-22) — the 1st and 2nd occurrences both went through `Skill("next")` with a skipped topic Read; the 3rd bypassed `Skill("next")` entirely via a Stop-hook-forced direct ask, so a self-check that only fires *inside* the skill's own Step 2 never ran. Before calling `AskUserQuestion` from a Stop-hook directive, still check: does any option reference a PR/issue number? If yes, does each distinct number have its own full URL?

## Step 0.3: Recording/management topic ask-skip gate (HARD STOP)

**If the just-completed work is a "simple recording/management topic", skip the next-action ask entirely.** Stop hook auto-triggers next skill on every task completion, but recording-topic completion is not a user-decision branch point.

### Default = ask. Skip = exception (closed list — HARD STOP)

**The skip-target table below is a CLOSED list.** Any just-completed work that does not exactly match a row in the table = **ask is required** (proceed to Step 0.4+). Do not extrapolate skip justification to "similar" cases such as plan/research authoring, user-awaiting-reply states, or "prior turn already asked" rationales.

| # | Don't (skip extrapolation — forbidden) | Do (closed-list discipline) |
|---|------|------|
| 1 | "Plan/research/analysis authoring just completed → similar to recording → skip" | Plan/research/analysis is **not** recording (it creates new decision axes: proceed / refine / hold). Ask required |
| 2 | "User is awaiting reply on a prior chat-text question → skip the next-action ask" | Awaiting-reply on one axis ≠ no decision on the next-action axis. trade-off ask and next-action ask are **separate axes** — both required |
| 3 | "Re-asking would revert the user's prior Other selection → skip" | Prior ask = topic-decision axis (e.g., PR tag). Next-action ask = progress-decision axis (proceed / refine / hold). Different axes, no revert |
| 4 | "Stop hook re-triggered next, but I already asked once this turn → skip" | The just-completed work is the trigger condition, not "have I asked in this turn". If the work changed (new artifact, new state), ask again |
| 5 | "TaskList has just one item and it depend

CHANGELOG.md

# Changelog

## [0.11.0](https://github.com/es6kr/skills/compare/next-v0.10.2...next-v0.11.0) (2026-09-30)


### Features

* **next:** enhance candidate discovery, context heuristics, and decision gates ([bdf3cd9](https://github.com/es6kr/skills/commit/bdf3cd9c3a38091cff85be9db382d7a1d8def496))


### Bug Fixes

* **next:** add already-satisfied candidate verification to option diversity gate ([1b6fc6c](https://github.com/es6kr/skills/commit/1b6fc6c11c94f91c1f2a75b22db7bd0ca8ae58b7))
* **next:** add CodeRabbit tier x visibility gate to After-PR-creation pattern ([7bcae82](https://github.com/es6kr/skills/commit/7bcae82e38ee1d5eb08b785520518422b64a3ddd))
* **next:** add continuation-over-re-ask gate, positive cleanup trigger, and harness candidate patterns ([88b5a26](https://github.com/es6kr/skills/commit/88b5a265287e85477c9196135e879e5d774544ec))
* **next:** assume &lt;20% context right after /compact; generalize staleness gate to loop promises ([d88230a](https://github.com/es6kr/skills/commit/d88230a152d2d1d19884fb1583bc13bcb9290cde))
* **next:** close chain-blindness gap for Step 0.4 prose-decision drops ([dba4b29](https://github.com/es6kr/skills/commit/dba4b294222a7046432d64564e72752403950cb0))
* **next:** rank registered TaskList items above checklist-only backlog and frame them as actionable proceed ([c09074e](https://github.com/es6kr/skills/commit/c09074e92da799fa9f7be80f47e3abdd2d350b65))
* **next:** require cross-workspace target labeling for fix_plan candidates ([5f7774c](https://github.com/es6kr/skills/commit/5f7774c9a6ddfd1f5053750c97af4dbfc395aa2d))
* **next:** scope End-session-never-Recommended rule to all ask paths ([181f3e2](https://github.com/es6kr/skills/commit/181f3e23631d72ecf184db4c6cb8e2915e37f8cd))

## [0.10.2](https://github.com/es6kr/skills/compare/next-v0.10.1...next-v0.10.2) (2026-09-24)


### Bug Fixes

* **next:** mandate physical cleanup skill invocation before wrapup ([#513](https://github.com/es6kr/skills/issues/513)) ([4773fe2](https://github.com/es6kr/skills/commit/4773fe2ca7ee01f21f7794cb588df605527f6879))
* **next:** prioritize explicit invocation-argument candidates over generic sweep ([#543](https://github.com/es6kr/skills/issues/543)) ([4fd3850](https://github.com/es6kr/skills/commit/4fd38502af59bffb9157c03a4351dabbd66dfc2e))

## [0.10.1](https://github.com/es6kr/skills/compare/next-v0.10.0...next-v0.10.1) (2026-09-18)


### Bug Fixes

* **cleanup:** make the session-end report table self-sufficient ([#487](https://github.com/es6kr/skills/issues/487)) ([c4a0255](https://github.com/es6kr/skills/commit/c4a02557fb8de3b32cf337c549f62535dabf824b))

## [0.10.0](https://github.com/es6kr/skills/compare/next-v0.9.2...next-v0.10.0) (2026-09-06)


### Features

* **cc-plugin:** implement post-commit dev-reflect and cache drift guard ([3f78c05](https://github.com/es6kr/skills/commit/3f78c054e7c00e7c33730d3378c5aff6575566e4))

## [0.9.2](https://github.com/es6kr/skills/compare/next-v0.9.1...next-v0.9.2) (2026-09-01)


###

skill-card.md

## Description:

Suggests practical next actions after a task, including follow-up options for stalled work.

This skill is ready for commercial/non-commercial use.

## Publisher:

[drumrobot](https://clawhub.ai/user/drumrobot)

### License/Terms of Use:

MIT-0

## Use Case:

Developers and other assistant users use this skill to find actionable follow-ups after finishing a task, spot stalled steps, and choose what to do next.

### Deployment Geography for Use:

Global

## Known Risks and Mitigations:

Risk: Persistent hooks can automatically prompt for next actions.

Mitigation: Review hook paths and enable them only if automatic suggestions are wanted.

Risk: Next-action discovery may inspect transcripts, task state, GitHub/CI context, and planning files across visited workspaces.

Mitigation: Limit use to trusted workspaces and review the scope of accessible project information.

Risk: A helper-script lookup may execute code from agent plugin directories.

Mitigation: Verify the helper-script path and contents before enabling hooks.

## Reference(s):

- [Next skill listing](https://clawhub.ai/drumrobot/skills/next)
- [Stall detection](artifact/stall-detect.md)
- [Ask gates](artifact/ask-gates.md)
- [Suggestion patterns](artifact/suggestion-patterns.md)

## Skill Output:

**Output Type(s):** [Guidance, Text]

**Output Format:** [Markdown with next-action options and a user-selection prompt]

**Output Parameters:** [1D]

**Other Properties Related to Output:** [Suggestions depend on the current task and available skills.]

## Skill Version(s):

0.11.0 (source: ClawHub release)

## Ethical Considerations:

Users should evaluate whether this skill is appropriate for their environment, review any generated or modified files before relying on them, and apply their organization's safety, security, and compliance requirements before deployment.

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Machine-readable data

The same record, as JSON, for agents and crawlers.

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