Your next request.
In its own turn.

Why it exists

When a follow-up comes to mind while Claude is working, most people just type it. But a normal message sent mid-task reaches Claude as soon as the current tool call finishes. Send “add a test for an empty list” while it is fixing a bug, and it lands before the tests even run, so both requests end up in one reply.

Slash commands, on the other hand, wait until the turn ends, as Claude Code’s documentation describes. /next is a one-line skill built on that difference.

How it works

The whole skill is a few lines. It hands whatever follows /next to Claude as the next request in the conversation; the waiting is done by Claude Code’s own command queue.

---
name: next
description: Queue a follow-up request that runs after the current turn finishes.
argument-hint: <next request>
disable-model-invocation: true
---

Treat the following as the user's follow-up request and carry it out now,
continuing from the current conversation: $ARGUMENTS

Because of disable-model-invocation: true, only you can run it. It never appears in Claude’s skill list, so it costs no context until you use it.

Using it

• While Claude works, type something like /next run the tests and fix anything that fails. It runs as a new turn once the current one ends.
• To queue several, press Enter after each one. They run in order, one turn each.
• To cancel, press ↑ with the input empty, delete the line and press Enter. Don’t use Ctrl+C for this; it stops Claude.

How it was tested

The repository’s tests/verify.sh drives a real Claude Code session in tmux, queues two /next commands during a multi-step task, and reads the session transcript to see what reached Claude and when. On Claude Code 2.1.283 (macOS), neither request reached Claude during the first turn (0 leaks), and each ran in order as its own turn.

Limits

• It waits for the main turn to end, not for background tasks Claude started.
• Permission prompts still apply.
• It is a personal skill, so it works in local sessions on your machine, not in cloud sessions.