orca-status

orca-status is a command for coding agents from adilkalam/orca. It costs 7 tokens per session (821 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that reports the state of the active ORCA recording session. ORCA records session activity in a Git repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use /orca-status to check the session ID, state, start time, step count, and files touched.
Why use it?
It provides a quick view of whether recording is active, how many steps were recorded, and how many files were touched.

Command

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 commands/adilkalam/orca/orca-status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adilkalam/orca

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Per session 7 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 821 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 $0.00007 $0.00821
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00411
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00164
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00082

Measured 3d ago against content hash d3647b061f2f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orca-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 3d 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.

commands/orca-status.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/orca-status - Recording Session Status

PURPOSE: Show current recording session status including session ID, state, step count, and files touched.

EXPECTED OUTCOME: Quick status overview of the active recording session.


Step 1: Check Recording Layer Status

Verify orca-record binary exists:

if [ ! -f ~/.claude/bin/orca-record ]; then
  echo "orca-record not installed. Run: cd ~/.claude && ./install.sh"
  exit 0
fi

Verify git repository:

if ! git rev-parse --git-dir >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  echo "Not in a git repository. Recording layer requires git."
  exit 0
fi

Step 2: Execute Status Command

Run orca-record status:

~/.claude/bin/orca-record status

Expected CLI output format:

Session: sess-19c6983c46029c7
State: ACTIVE
Started: 2026-02-17T14:30:00.000Z
Steps: 5
Files touched: 12

Step 3: Format Output for User

Display formatted status:

Recording Status

Session: sess-19c6983c46029c7
State: ACTIVE
Started: 2026-02-17 14:30
Steps: 5
Files touched: 12

State values:

  • ACTIVE - Active session, events being recorded
  • IDLE - No active session
  • ENDED - Session completed

Step 4: No-Session Case

If no active session:

Recording Status

No active recording session.

Recording starts automatically when you begin working.
Use /continue to see previous sessions.

Step 5: Surface Continuity State (active-task.md is primary)

Recording is telemetry; the primary continuity artifact is active-task.md. Surface its freshness so the user knows whether /session-resume will restore intent:

AT=.orca/orchestration/active-task.md
if [ -f "$AT" ]; then
  mtime=$(stat -f %m "$AT" 2>/dev/null || stat -c %Y "$AT" 2>/dev/null)
  age_h=$(( ( $(date +%s) - mtime ) / 3600 ))
  if [ "$age_h" -lt 48 ]; then
    echo "active-task.md: present, ${age_h}h old -- fresh; run /session-resume to restore intent"
  else
    echo "active-task.md: present, ${age_h}h old -- stale (>48h); re-run /session-save"
  fi
else
  echo "active-task.md: none -- run /session-save to capture intent for the next session"
fi

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 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. 3d ago First seen · 140 lines · 7 tokens per session scan A d3647b061f2f

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orca-status is a command published in the GitHub repository adilkalam/orca (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 7 tokens to every session and 821 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-31.