status

A command that reports the contents and configuration of a Markdown search index.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect index health, embedding model details, storage size, and the recorded update information.
Why use it?
It lets you check how many files, text sections, vectors, and links are indexed, how much storage they use, and whether the embedding setup is compatible.

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/geckse/markdown-vdb/status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/geckse/markdown-vdb
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 1,329 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 $0.01329
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00665
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00133

Measured 2d ago against content hash 403458c25cdb, 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.

docs/cli/commands/status.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

mdvdb status

Show whole-index counts, storage size, the embedding configuration recorded in the index, and whether the configured embedding space is compatible with that index.

Usage

mdvdb status [OPTIONS]

Options

This command has no command-specific options. Only global options apply.

Global Options

These options apply to all commands. See Commands Index for details.

Flag Short Description
--verbose -v Increase log verbosity (-v info, -vv debug, -vvv trace)
--root Project root directory (defaults to current directory)
--no-color Disable colored output
--json Output results as JSON

Human-Readable Output

When run without --json, status displays a formatted summary:

  ● Index Status

  Documents:  57
  Chunks:     342
  Vectors:    367
  Edges:      25
  File size:  12.4 MB
  Updated:    3 minutes ago

  Embedding:  OpenAI
  Model:      text-embedding-3-small
  Dimensions: 1536
  Compatibility: Ready

Output Fields

Field Description
Documents Number of unique markdown files in the index
Chunks Total number of text chunks across all files
Vectors Total HNSW vectors: document chunks plus semantic-edge vectors
Edges Number of semantic-edge vectors stored in HNSW
File size Size of the index file on disk (human-readable)
Updated Time since the index was last saved (relative format)
Embedding Name of the configured embedding provider
Model Embedding model identifier
Dimensions Vector dimensionality
Compatibility Whether semantic operations can use the current configuration or require a reindex

Examples

# Show index status
mdvdb status

# Show status as JSON
mdvdb status --json

# Show status for a specific project
mdvdb status --root /path/to/project

JSON Output

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 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 · 151 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 403458c25cdb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

status is a command published in the GitHub repository geckse/markdown-vdb (23 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 1,329 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.