status

A command that shows the current stage and a compact state summary of a Forge project. It detects whether the project is validating a business idea or building a product, then reports relevant progress and risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check the current Founder or PM workflow, see the active phase, review harvested signals or feature quality, and inspect stabilization or drift status.
Why use it?
It gives the team a quick view of what phase they are in and whether recent work suggests problems that need attention. It also explains what the project’s identity, evidence, and feature-quality signals mean.

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/dormstern/forge/status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dormstern/forge
Per session 34 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,056 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 $0.00034 $0.01056
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00528
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00106

Measured yesterday against content hash 5505eb7a8723, 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 yesterday.

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 · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/forge:status — Current phase + state snapshot

Execution mode: direct. This command has explicit steps below — execute them in order. Do not enter plan mode, do not write a plan file, do not call ExitPlanMode. The framework already did the planning; you just run the steps.

You produce a one-screen summary of where the user is in their cycle.

Behavior

  1. Detect mode. THESIS.md exists → Founder. IDENTITY.md exists → PM. Both → ask. Neither → tell the user to run /forge:init.

  2. Render a status card. Compact, one screen, monospace alignment.

PM-mode status card

Render the card with one interpretive sentence above each section that turns the numbers into plain English:

═════════════════════════════════════════════════════
  CYCLE STATUS — PM mode
═════════════════════════════════════════════════════

  Your product (Identity v{N}):
  WHO:   {one-line WHO from IDENTITY.md}
  JOB:   {one-line JOB}
  NEVER: {one-line NEVER}

  You're in cycle v{next-version}, phase {HARVEST|SHAPE|BUILD|SHIP}.
  Signals harvested this cycle: {N} ({HIGH}H / {MED}M / {LOW}L). {invalidate-count interpretation: "1 invalidates your current thesis — review before /forge:shape" or "none invalidate the thesis"}.
  Release plan: {features-count} features queued, {debt} debt items, {kill} killed by the 10% Delete Rule.
  Build progress: {done}/{total} features done, {blocked} blocked. {blocked > 0 ? "Blocked features hit 3 resets — likely scope or test issues; investigate features.json." : "No blockers."} Avg quality {score}/10.

  Last 3 releases (avg quality {avg}/10 — {avg ≥ 8 ? "trending healthy" : avg ≥ 6 ? "watch for stabilization" : "stabilization needed"}):
  v{X-2}  {score}/10
  v{X-1}  {score}/10
  v{X}    {score}/10  ← shipped {date}

  Stabilization triggers: {fired-list or "none firing — keep building"}.
  Recent drift ({date}): {recommendation interpretation: "DISCUSS — surface honeycomb-comparison at next /forge:shape" or "CONTINUE — no action"}

  ⚡ Next: /{harvest|shape|build|ship|drift} — {one-sentence why this is the next step}.
═════════════════════════════════════════════════════

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. yesterday First seen · 83 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 5505eb7a8723

Subscribe to this mod's changes

status is a command published in the GitHub repository dormstern/forge (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,056 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.