flow-status

flow-status is a command for coding agents from shenchangmin/cairnkit. It costs 20 tokens per session (301 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only command that summarizes the current Cairnkit workflow run, including its stage, completed history, approvals, and produced files. Cairnkit is the workflow system used by this project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check run progress, inspect pending approvals, find workflow artifacts, or decide whether to resume or start a run.
Why use it?
It gives a quick view of whether work is active, paused for approval, complete, or has not started. It also points to the next workflow command.

Command

Part of the cairnkit plugin — 2 skills, 7 commands, 11 agents shipped together

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/shenchangmin/cairnkit/flow-status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shenchangmin/cairnkit

Or install cairnkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 7 commands, 11 agents.

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.

agentmods badge for flow-status

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 301 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 $0.00020 $0.00301
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00151
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00030

Measured 3d ago against content hash eb71b78cbe55, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

flow-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 3d 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/flow-status.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

/flow-status

Report where the current run stands. This is read-only.

Steps

  1. Run cairn --root . config show.
    • Exit 2 → no cairnkit.yaml; suggest the team-init entrypoint and stop.
    • Exit 0 → if has_run is false, report "no run yet" and suggest the flow-run entrypoint.
  2. Run cairn --root . state show.
    • Exit 4 → STATE corrupt; show the repair guidance from stderr verbatim and stop.
    • Exit 0 → parse the JSON, then run cairn --root . state resume for the paused flag.
  3. Present a concise human summary:
    • Stage and whether the run is paused (awaiting a CLARIFY approval — name what).
    • History (stages completed so far).
    • Artifacts produced (paths under docs/workflows/<run-id>/).
    • Next action: if paused → resume through the flow-run entrypoint after review. If the stage is DONE, say the run is complete and suggest using that entrypoint to start a new run. Otherwise use it to continue the active run.
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. 3d ago First seen · 25 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A eb71b78cbe55

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flow-status is a command published in the GitHub repository shenchangmin/cairnkit (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 301 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 2026-08-31.