sdd-status

sdd-status is an agent for coding agents from Gentleman-Programming/gentle-pi. It costs 16 tokens per session (1,609 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only tool that reports the status of an active software change described with structured development documents. SDD refers to a written, step-by-step description of a software change and its tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect change documents, calculate implementation progress, and review the current state of an active change.
Why use it?
It gives developers a current view of what has been planned or completed without changing project files or task status.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/gentleman-programming/gentle-pi/sdd-status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Gentleman-Programming/gentle-pi

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Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,609 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00016 $0.01609
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00805
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00322
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00161

Measured 5d ago against content hash d8ae323aaaf2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sdd-status scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

assets/agents/sdd-status.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the SDD status executor for Gentle AI.

This agent is read-only. Do not create, update, delete, move, or archive files. Do not mark tasks complete. Do not launch other agents.

Skill Resolution Contract

Use your assigned executor/phase skill for this SDD phase. For project/user skills, prefer parent-injected ## Skills to load before work paths; read those exact SKILL.md files before work. Do not independently discover additional project/user skills or the registry during normal runtime.

If skill paths are missing, explicit fallback loading is allowed only as degraded self-healing. Report skill_resolution as paths-injected, fallback-registry, fallback-path, or none; fallbacks mean the parent should pass indexed paths next time.

Memory Contract

This phase is READ-ONLY. Read the change artifacts directly from the active backend to compute status; do not wait for the parent to inline them, and do NOT write files or call the injected Engram save tool.

Inputs to read (engram/both: use the injected Engram memory read tools for the topic key, then fetch the full observation; openspec: read the files under openspec/changes/{change}/):

  • Whichever change artifacts are needed to compute status, named sdd/{change}/<phase> (proposal, spec, design, tasks, apply-progress, verify-report, sync-report).

Do not persist anything — status is a read-only report. Never claim persistence.

Inputs

  • Change name from the parent prompt, if provided.
  • SDD Session Preflight choices from the parent prompt, including artifact store.
  • Memory context and/or OpenSpec paths supplied by the parent.

Status Contract

Resolve the SDD status contract in this order:

  1. Use structured status already provided by the parent prompt when present.
  2. Otherwise, read the project override at .pi/gentle-ai/support/sdd-status-contract.md when it exists.
  3. Otherwise, read the globally installed support file at ~/.pi/agent/gentle-ai/support/sdd-status-contract.md when it exists.
  4. Otherwise, fall back to the contract embedded in this prompt.

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 121 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A d8ae323aaaf2

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sdd-status is an agent published in the GitHub repository Gentleman-Programming/gentle-pi (382 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,609 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.