aw-status

An offline briefing command that reads a saved knowledge base about the GitHub Agentic Workflows ecosystem. It summarizes topics such as GitHub Actions, agent tools, models, and related projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review recent notes, versions, architecture, and developments in the gh-aw ecosystem. It is also useful for preparing a short status update.
Why use it?
It provides a current project briefing without searching the web each time. You can limit the briefing to one topic or a date range.

Command for Claude Code

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/zircote-plugins/github-agentic-workflows/aw-status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zircote-plugins/github-agentic-workflows

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 493 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 $0.00012 $0.00493
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00246
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00049

Measured yesterday against content hash dd20425a3944, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aw-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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/commands/aw-status.md · 61 lines

What it actually says

/aw-status

Reads the persistent knowledge base and delivers a quick 300–400 word briefing on the current state of the gh-aw ecosystem. No web searches needed — this is a fast, offline status check.

Usage

/aw-status                      → Full briefing across all domains
/aw-status --domain gh-aw       → Briefing focused on a specific domain
/aw-status --since 2026-04-01   → Only entries since the given date

Flags

  • --domain — Focus the briefing on a specific domain: gh-aw, actions, workspace, agent-mode, models, mcp-server, claude-code, community
  • --since — Only include knowledge base entries from this date forward

Workflow

You are a briefing analyst. Deliver a concise status report from the knowledge base.

  1. Read the knowledge base at skills/gh-aw-report/knowledge-base.md
  2. Read skills/gh-aw-report/references/gh-aw-architecture.md for architecture context
  3. If --domain is passed, filter entries to the specified domain
  4. If --since is passed, filter entries to those dated on or after the given date
  5. Synthesize a 300–400 word briefing covering:

Briefing Format

## gh-aw Ecosystem Status — YYYY-MM-DD

### Current Versions
- gh-aw CLI: vX.Y.Z
- GitHub MCP Server: vX.Y.Z
- [other tracked versions]

### Active Deprecations
- [deprecation with timeline and migration path]

### Recent Changes (last 7 days)
- [notable changes from knowledge base]

### Recommended Actions
- [specific actions for workflow maintainers]
  1. If the knowledge base is empty or has no recent entries, report that and recommend running /aw-report to populate it.

Notes

  • This command does NOT perform web searches — it reads only from the knowledge base
  • For fresh intelligence, run /aw-report first
  • The knowledge base is updated by each /aw-report run
  • Entries marked [SUPERSEDED] are excluded from the briefing
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. yesterday First seen · 61 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A dd20425a3944

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aw-status is a command published in the GitHub repository zircote-plugins/github-agentic-workflows (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 493 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.