| name | up-next |
| description | List the work that's ready to pick up by scanning the project board for issues with Status "ready-for-work" and presenting a summarized, ranked shortlist. Use when the user asks "what's next", "what's up next", or invokes /up-next. Can hand a chosen issue to /pickup. |
| disable-model-invocation | true |
| argument-hint | [owner/repo — defaults to current repo] |
| allowed-tools | ["Bash","Agent","Read"] |
What's up next
Surface the issues that are ready to be worked on right now and present them as a tight shortlist the user can pick from.
Process
1. Determine the repo
Default to the current repo (cwd). If the user passed an owner/repo, target that instead.
2. Fetch ready work
ready-for-work is a Status field on the org's GitHub Project (v2), not an issue label — so gh issue list --label won't see it. Query the project board instead.
Requires the read:project scope. If a query fails with a missing-scope error, tell the user to run gh auth refresh -s read:project,project (interactive browser flow) and stop until they confirm.
Find the project, then list its items filtered to Status == ready-for-work:
OWNER=galileo-inc
PROJECT=$(gh project list --owner "$OWNER" --format json | jq -r '.projects[0].number')
gh project item-list "$PROJECT" --owner "$OWNER" --format json --limit 100 \
| jq -r '.items[] | select(.status=="ready-for-work")
| {number: .content.number, title: .content.title, url: .content.url,
assignees: .content.assignees, size: .size, repo: .content.repository}'
If the list is empty, say so plainly and stop — don't pad with unrelated issues.
3. Filter and rank
- Drop items that already have an assignee or an in-flight branch/PR (a quick
gh pr list --search "<issue#>" check), unless the user asked to include them.
- Prefer the board's
Size field when present; otherwise infer rough effort.
- For a richer ranking — what each item involves, what's blocked, what's quick — delegate to the
work-finder agent rather than reading every thread inline. Tell it to restrict to the ready-for-work items found above (pass it the issue numbers). Use its output to order the list.
4. Present the shortlist
Numbered list, terse. Per item:
- #num — Title
- Gist — one line on what the work is
- Size — rough effort (S / M / L) if discernible
- Blocked by — only if something blocks it
Keep it scannable. No raw issue dumps.
5. Offer to start
End by offering to feed a chosen issue into /pickup (the ingestion + planning skill). If the user names a number, invoke /pickup <issue#>.
