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Steve Morin

/project-next

Answer "what should I work on?" from the actual trunk.

What it does

Reads PROJECTS.md and projects/ and builds a composite menu: what is in progress, the next few unstarted projects by ID, and the files touched most recently. Read-only by construction — it never edits project state, so running it to get oriented cannot cost you anything.

When to reach for it

Returning to a repo after time away, or at the start of a working session when the honest answer to "what now" is "no idea".

It's working if

  • The menu is short enough to choose from without opening PROJECTS.md yourself.
  • Something on it is a project you had lost track of.
  • The rows it calls in-progress match the files you actually touched last.

Install this skill

Then type /project-next in your agent.

npx skills@latest add smorinlabs/smorinlabs-harness -s project-next

Or install the whole project-harness plugin — this skill plus 4 others.

/plugin install project-harness@smorinlabs-harness

Where it fits

  • /project-audit — the deeper pass when the trunk itself looks untrustworthy.
  • /session-recap — the session-level equivalent — orients you in a conversation rather than a backlog.