gentle-sdd-status

gentle-sdd-status is a command for Claude Code from Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai. It costs 9 tokens per session (727 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of sdd-status, MIT.

A read-only command that reports the current status of a software change managed through structured development documents. SDD means Spec-Driven Development: planning and implementing from written requirements and design.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking requirements, design, task, review, and archive progress for an active change.
Why use it?
It shows what stage the change is in and what can happen next without editing files or starting work.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Checking requirements, design, task, review, and archive progress for an active change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/gentleman-programming/gentle-ai/gentle-sdd-status
About the project

Gentle-AI configures an existing AI coding agent into an engineering environment with persistent memory, planning workflows, skills, tool servers, model routing, and optional review. Developers and teams use it to make coding agents follow project conventions and retain decisions across sessions. The catalogue entries are its skills, commands, agents, and instruction.

Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai · 6,475 stars · on GitHub · gentle-ai.gentlemanprogramming.com

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 727 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00009 $0.00727
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00364
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00073

Measured 7d ago against content hash fdcfab9d3d97, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gentle-sdd-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 7d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to sdd-status — 9 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

internal/assets/claude/commands/gentle-sdd-status.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Show structured SDD status for an active change. This command is read-only: do not launch SDD executors and do not edit files.

HARD GATE:

SDD Session Preflight must already be complete for this session. It must include execution mode, artifact store, chained PR strategy, and review budget. If missing, ask the exact orchestrator preflight prompt and STOP. Do not inspect status in the same turn.

CONTEXT:

  • Working directory: Detect agent-side before proceeding by running git rev-parse --show-toplevel with the Bash tool; if that fails, run pwd with the Bash tool.
  • Current project: Derive agent-side from the detected working directory basename. Do not use slash-command shell interpolation for this value.
  • Change name: $ARGUMENTS

TASK:

  1. If the gentle-ai binary is available, run gentle-ai sdd-status [change] --cwd <repo> --json --instructions and treat its JSON as authoritative — but only when the session artifact store is openspec or hybrid. When the session artifact store is engram, do NOT invoke the native dispatcher at all — it cannot see the change (it reads only openspec/changes/); resolve status entirely from Engram (mem_search + mem_get_observation on the change's topic keys) using the manual status schema in ~/.claude/skills/_shared/sdd-status-contract.md (the same schema used when the binary is unavailable). The dispatcher is authoritative only for openspec/hybrid. If unavailable, read ~/.claude/skills/_shared/sdd-status-contract.md and follow it.
  2. Resolve the active change:
    • If $ARGUMENTS is provided, validate that exact change in the selected artifact store.
    • If omitted and exactly one active change exists, select it and say how it was selected.
    • If omitted or ambiguous with multiple active changes, ask the user to choose and STOP. Do not guess.
  3. Inspect the selected artifact store from session preflight. Do not hardcode Engram.
  4. Return structured status with:
    • Active change selection and schemaName.
    • planningHome, changeRoot, artifactPaths, and contextFiles.
    • Artifact statuses for proposal, specs, design, tasks, apply-progress, and verify-report.
    • Task progress: total, completed, pending, and allComplete.
    • Dependency states for proposal, specs, design, tasks, apply, verify, and archive.
    • Next recommended action.
    • actionContext mode, workspace root, and allowed edit roots.

READ-ONLY RULES:

  • Do not create, update, or delete artifacts.
  • Do not mark tasks complete.
  • Do not launch apply, verify, archive, or continue.
  • Do not infer routing from free text. Use nextRecommended and dependency states. If blockedReasons is non-empty, do not proceed to apply, archive, or terminal work. If nextRecommended is verify, verification/remediation may run only to refresh evidence; if nextRecommended is resolve-blockers, report blockedReasons and stop; if nextRecommended is a planning token (propose, spec, design, or tasks), launch the corresponding planning phase.
  • If status cannot be resolved safely, return status: blocked with the missing information.
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. 7d ago First seen · 41 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A fdcfab9d3d97

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gentle-sdd-status is a command published in the GitHub repository Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai (6,475 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 727 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to sdd-status, differing in 9 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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