status

A read-only command that checks a project's repository signals and reports its current Shipshape deck state.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check Git changes, commits ahead of the upstream repository, required project files and values, tagged specifications, perturbation statements, and the watchbill file.
Why use it?
It gathers several checks in one place without changing files, so you can quickly see whether the project is clean and properly configured.

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/dmytri/shipshape/status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dmytri/shipshape
Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 316 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 $0.00013 $0.00316
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00158
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00032

Measured 2d ago against content hash fea14e0d1d24, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

commands/status.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

Shipshape status

This command mechanizes the derived-state rule from the Shipshape skills: harbour and deck state are derived from durable signals, never stored. Doctrine lives in the skills; this command adds none.

Derive current deck state from repository signals and report it. Run read-only checks. Change nothing.

  1. Tree: run git status --short and, when an upstream exists, git rev-list --count @{upstream}..HEAD. Report working tree cleanliness and commits ahead of upstream.
  2. Rigging: report whether RIGGING.md exists at the project root and whether the required values are present: language under Stack, implementation and specs under Directories, focused under Commands, and perturb under Perturbation.
  3. Harbour signals: count @captain and @shipwright tags in the specs directory.
  4. Perturbations: count PERTURBATION statements in the implementation directory.
  5. Watchbill: report whether watchbill.json exists and matches the fixed watchbill shape the shipshape skill defines.
  6. Report the signals as a short table. Close with the suggested entry: RIGGING.md absent routes to /shipwright for fitting out, per the shipshape skill's Entry; a dirty tree needs Boatswain, per the Captain skill; otherwise Captain.
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 · 18 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A fea14e0d1d24

Subscribe to this mod's changes

status is a command published in the GitHub repository dmytri/shipshape (7 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed 0BSD. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 316 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 2026-08-31.