What is crucible-status?

A project-progress report for Crucible writing projects, covering planning, outlining, drafting, and editing.

Use it to check chapter counts, word counts, outline coverage, foreshadowing tracking, and the next review stage.

It shows what is finished, what is missing, and where the project currently stands instead of making you inspect several state files yourself.

crucible-status — Command for Claude Code by forsonny

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add forsonny/The-Crucible-Writing-System-For-Claude

Claude Code

/plugin install The-Crucible-Writing-System-For-Claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install The-Crucible-Writing-System-For-Claude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 8 commands, 5 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 712 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00018	$0.00712
Opus 5	$0.00009	$0.00356
Sonnet 5	$0.00004	$0.00142
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00071

Measured 13d ago against content hash b2f1e29af471, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

crucible-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 13d 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/crucible-status.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/crucible-status

Display comprehensive status of your Crucible writing project.

Execution Instructions

IMPORTANT: When this command is invoked, you MUST:

Run the status reporter script to gather project data:

python "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/status_reporter.py" "." "text"

If the script is not available or fails, manually gather status by reading:
- .crucible/state/planning-state.json
- .crucible/state/outline-state.json
- .crucible/state/draft-state.json
- .crucible/state/edit-state.json
Present the formatted output to the user

Usage

/crucible-suite:crucible-status - Show full project status

What This Shows

Project Overview

Project title and target word count
Current phase (planning/outlining/writing/editing)
Overall completion percentage

Planning Status

Which planning documents are complete
Missing or incomplete sections
Last modified dates

Outline Status

Chapters outlined vs. total
Beat coverage verification
Foreshadowing thread tracking

Writing Status

Chapters written vs. outlined
Current word count vs. target
Scenes completed in current chapter
Next bi-chapter review trigger

Editing Status

Chapters through each editing level
Issues found and resolved
Word count changes

Recent Activity

Last 5 actions taken
Files recently modified
Backup status

Example Output

CRUCIBLE PROJECT STATUS
═══════════════════════════════════════

📚 The Memory Forge
   Phase: WRITING
   Progress: 42% complete

PLANNING    ████████████████████ 100%
├─ Thesis       ✓ complete
├─ Strand Maps  ✓ complete (3/3)
├─ Forge Points ✓ complete (5/5)
├─ Dark Mirror  ✓ complete
├─ Constellation ✓ complete
├─ Mercy Ledger ✓ complete
└─ World Forge  ✓ complete

OUTLINING   ████████████████████ 100%
├─ Chapters outlined: 25/25
├─ Foreshadowing threads: 12 tracked
└─ All beats mapped: ✓

WRITING     ████████░░░░░░░░░░░░  42%
├─ Chapters written: 10/25
├─ Current chapter: 11 (scene 2/4)
├─ Word count: 63,450 / 150,000
└─ Next review: After chapter 12

EDITING     ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░   0%
└─ Not yet started

Last backup: 2 hours ago

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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.

13d ago First seen · 108 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A b2f1e29af471

Subscribe to this mod's changes

crucible-status is a command published in the GitHub repository forsonny/The-Crucible-Writing-System-For-Claude (60 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 712 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.

Planning Writing and docs

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