What is anvil-status?

A command that reports the current state of an Anvil debate. An Anvil debate is a tracked discussion whose question, mode, phase, round, research setting, and start time are saved in a project file.

Use it to see the active debate question, current phase and round, whether research is enabled, and when the debate started.

It lets you check whether such a debate is active and where it currently stands without opening the state file yourself.

anvil-status — Command for coding agents by mulkatz: A command that reports the current state of an…

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/mulkatz/anvil/anvil-status

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mulkatz/anvil

Or install anvil, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 commands, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/mulkatz/anvil/anvil-status.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/mulkatz/anvil/anvil-status)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/mulkatz/anvil/anvil-status"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/mulkatz/anvil/anvil-status.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 6 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 243 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00006	$0.00243
Opus 5	$0.00003	$0.00121
Sonnet 5	$0.00001	$0.00049
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00024

Measured 4d ago against content hash 201a9bbc9c44, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

anvil-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 4d 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/anvil-status.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Anvil Status

Check the current debate status:

Check if .claude/anvil-state.local.md exists using Bash: test -f .claude/anvil-state.local.md && echo "EXISTS" || echo "NOT_FOUND"
If NOT_FOUND: Say "No active Anvil debate."
If EXISTS:
- Read .claude/anvil-state.local.md
- Report the following from the YAML frontmatter:
  - Question: the question field
  - Mode: the mode field
  - Phase: the phase field (advocate/critic/synthesizer)
  - Round: round of max_rounds
  - Research: the research field (true/false)
  - Started: the started_at field

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.

4d ago First seen · 26 lines · 6 tokens per session scan A 201a9bbc9c44

Subscribe to this mod's changes

anvil-status is a command published in the GitHub repository mulkatz/anvil (1 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 6 tokens to every session and 243 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.

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