ace:status

A compact command-line view of a project's current phase, plan, status, and overall progress.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for a fast project check based on the project, roadmap, and state files.
Why use it?
It gives a quick answer about where the project stands and what command should come next without showing a full progress report.

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/agricidaniel/ace-claude-code/status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/ace-claude-code
Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 549 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 $0.00011 $0.00549
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00275
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00055

Measured 2d ago against content hash a542b5c100db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ace: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 2d 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.

.ace/commands/status.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

This is a lightweight alternative to /ace:progress - same information, faster output.

1. Quick State Check

if PROJECT.md does not exist:
    Display:
    [!] No project. Run /ace:new-project or /ace:init
    EXIT

if ROADMAP.md does not exist:
    Display:
    [!] No roadmap. Run /ace:create-roadmap
    EXIT

2. Compact Status Display

Read STATE.md and display:

+----------------------------------------------+
|  [Project Name]                              |
+----------------------------------------------+
  Phase: [X]/[Y] - [Phase Name]
  Plan:  [A]/[B] - [Plan Name]
  Status: [Ready/In Progress/Complete]

  [##########..........] 50%

  Next: /ace:[suggested-command]
+----------------------------------------------+

3. Progress Bar Calculation

Calculate overall progress:
- Count completed phases
- Count completed plans in current phase
- Show as visual bar: [####........] XX%

Formula:
  completedPhases = phases marked complete
  currentPhasePlans = plans completed in current phase / total plans
  overallProgress = (completedPhases + currentPhasePlans) / totalPhases * 100

4. Quick Next Action

Based on STATUS field in STATE.md:

Status Suggestion
needs-roadmap /ace:create-roadmap
ready-to-plan /ace:plan-phase [N]
ready-to-execute /ace:execute-plan
in-progress /ace:resume-work
phase-complete /ace:plan-phase [N+1]
all-complete Project finished!

5. Resume File Detection

if .continue-here*.md exists:
    Add to output:
    [i] Resume file found - run /ace:resume-work

<success_criteria>

  • Status displayed in 5 lines or less
  • Progress bar shown
  • Next action clearly suggested
  • Executes quickly (minimal file reads) </success_criteria>

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 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. 2d ago First seen · 99 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A a542b5c100db

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ace:status is a command published in the GitHub repository AgriciDaniel/ace-claude-code (24 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 549 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.