
Ops Next
- 55 installs
- 3.2k repo stars
- Updated August 2, 2026
- davepoon/buildwithclaude
Answer 'what should I do next' by ranking fires, unread comms, ready-to-merge PRs, Linear sprint, and revenue work, then routing to the right skill.
About
Answers the business-level 'what next' by ranking a priority stack (fires, unread comms, ready PRs, Linear sprint, revenue work) from pre-gathered data. A developer uses it to decide and jump to the highest-priority ops task.
- Priority stack: fires > comms > PRs > Linear sprint > revenue work
- Routes directly to the relevant ops skill from pre-gathered data
Ops Next by the numbers
- 55 all-time installs (skills.sh)
- Ranked #1,591 of 3,280 Productivity & Planning skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
- Data as of Aug 3, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
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| Installs | 55 |
|---|---|
| repo stars | ★ 3.2k |
| Last updated | August 2, 2026 |
| Repository | davepoon/buildwithclaude ↗ |
What it does
Answer 'what should I do next' by ranking fires, unread comms, ready-to-merge PRs, Linear sprint, and revenue work, then routing to the right skill.
Files
Runtime Context
Before advising, load: 1. Preferences: cat ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/plugins/data/ops-ops-marketplace}/preferences.json — read owner, primary_project, default_channels 2. Daemon health: cat ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR}/daemon-health.json — flag any action_needed as priority 3. Ops memories: Check ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR}/memories/topics_active.md for ongoing work context
OPS ► NEXT ACTION
CLI/API Reference
gh CLI (GitHub)
| Command | Usage | Output |
|---|---|---|
gh pr list --state open --json number,title,statusCheckRollup,reviewDecision | Open PRs with CI/review status | JSON array |
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Agent Teams support
If CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1 is set, use Agent Teams when gathering priority data in parallel. This enables:
- Agents share context and can coordinate mid-flight
- You can steer priorities in real-time
- Agents report progress as they complete
Team setup (only when flag is enabled):
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")If the flag is NOT set, use standard fire-and-forget subagents.
Pre-gathered data
Infrastructure & fires
```! ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-infra 2>/dev/null || echo '{"clusters":[]}'
### Git & PRs
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-prs 2>/dev/null || echo '[]'
### CI status
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-ci 2>/dev/null || echo '[]'
### Unread messages
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-unread 2>/dev/null || echo '{}'
### GSD active phases
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
---
## Your task
Apply the priority stack to all pre-gathered data:
### Priority 1 — FIRES
Check infra data for: unhealthy ECS tasks, stopped services, failed deployments.
Check CI for: broken `main` or `dev` branches.
If any fires exist → **recommend `/ops-fires` immediately**.
### Priority 2 — URGENT COMMS
Check unread counts. If WhatsApp or email has unread messages from humans (not automated):
- Estimate urgency from sender/preview if available
- If urgent comms → **recommend `/ops-inbox [channel]`**
### Priority 3 — READY-TO-MERGE PRs
Check PRs for: CI green + no unresolved review comments + not draft.
If any ready → **recommend reviewing that PR now**.
Check: `gh pr list --state open --json number,title,statusCheckRollup,reviewDecision 2>/dev/null`
### Priority 4 — LINEAR SPRINT
Fetch current sprint issues: use `mcp__linear__list_issues` filtered to current cycle (use Linear GraphQL fallback for cycle queries if needed).
Find highest-priority issue that is in progress or unstarted.
### Priority 5 — GSD WORK
From GSD state, find the highest revenue-impact active phase across all projects.
Revenue weighting: read `revenue.stage` and `priority` from `scripts/registry.json` — projects with lower priority numbers (higher priority) and revenue stage of `growth` or `active` outrank `pre-launch` or `development`. Within the same tier, prioritize closest-to-done phases.
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## Output format
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Use AskUserQuestion. When user selects an option, invoke the corresponding skill directly — don't describe it, do it.
If `$ARGUMENTS` contains context (e.g., "focus on <project-alias>"), constrain the analysis to that context.
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## Native tool usage
### Tasks — action tracking
After the user selects an action, use `TaskCreate` to track it. When routing to the corresponding skill, the task persists as a reminder of what the user chose to focus on.
### WebFetch — enrichment fallback
When pre-gathered data is stale or incomplete, use `WebFetch` to pull fresh data from APIs (Linear GraphQL, Sentry, GitHub) directly.