paul:status

paul:status is a command for coding agents from ChristopherKahler/paul. It costs 16 tokens per session (464 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A deprecated command that displays the current position and progress in the PAUL workflow, which moves through planning, applying changes, and closing the work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use /paul:progress for current milestone details, phase progress, and the next suggested action.
Why use it?
It can show where a project is in that workflow, but the description says to use /paul:progress instead.

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/christopherkahler/paul/status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ChristopherKahler/paul

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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 464 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 $0.00464
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00232
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00046

Measured 4d ago against content hash c483e277d42f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paul: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 4d 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.

src/commands/status.md · 79 lines

What it actually says

⚠️ DEPRECATED: This command is deprecated. Use /paul:progress instead.

/paul:progress provides the same information plus:

  • Visual milestone progress
  • Smarter routing with single next-action suggestion
  • Optional context argument for tailored suggestions

When to use: Use /paul:progress instead for better routing.

<execution_context> </execution_context>

PAUL Status
════════════════════════════════════════

Milestone: [name]
Phase: [X of Y] ([phase name])
Plan: [status]

Loop Position:
┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│  PLAN ──▶ APPLY ──▶ UNIFY          │
│   [✓/○]    [✓/○]    [✓/○]          │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘

Last: [timestamp] — [activity]
Next: [recommended action]

════════════════════════════════════════

<success_criteria>

  • Loop position displayed clearly
  • Phase progress shown
  • Next action suggested </success_criteria>
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. 4d ago First seen · 79 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A c483e277d42f

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paul:status is a command published in the GitHub repository ChristopherKahler/paul (1,212 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 464 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.