project-status

project-status is a skill for Claude Code from Abilityai/abilities. It costs 106 tokens per session (3,865 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only daily report for one managed project, showing recent progress, completed work, waiting decisions, and an estimated finish date.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to see what changed since the previous day, what needs your attention, and when the remaining critical work is expected to finish.
Why use it?
It gives the operator a regular status view without changing the project or dispatching work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the agent-dev plugin — 47 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to see what changed since the previous day, what needs your attention, and when the remaining critical work is expected to finish.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abilityai/abilities/project-status
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Abilityai/abilities --skill project-status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/abilities

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills.

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 project-status

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/abilityai/abilities/project-status/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/abilityai/abilities/project-status)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for project-status

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/abilityai/abilities/project-status"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/abilityai/abilities/project-status.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,865 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 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 5.1 $0.00106 $0.03865
Opus 5.5 $0.00042 $0.01546
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00773
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00386

Measured 6d ago against content hash b4d256cdad75, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-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 6d 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.

plugins/agent-dev/skills/project-status/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Status

ℹ️ First, set expectations: before anything else, print one short line with this skill's version and its most recent change — the top entry of metadata.changelog above — e.g. project-status v1.4.1 — recent: arguments no longer break the config resolver. Then proceed.

Purpose

One short daily answer to two questions about one managed project: how is it going and when will it be done. The steward (/project-steward) moves the work and escalates; this skill reports, and turns what waits on the operator into Trinity asks. It never dispatches. Its only registry writes are relaying an ended ask (one comment + the needs-operator → active label flip) — the managing agent is the project's sole issue writer, so this stays inside the standard (§2).

Daily, even when quiet. This is an operator-requested heartbeat for one project, so a no-change day still delivers a one-line report ("nothing moved; projected done ") — unlike the steward, which stays silent when nothing changed.

State dependencies

Source Location Read Write
Convention doc PROJECT_STANDARD.md (repo root) or fleet/project-standard.md (orchestrator) — §0 is the configuration ✓
Epic + tasks $REGISTRY, label project:<slug>; plus every repo in $MEMBER_REPOS (comma-separated, §0) for member issues ✓ relay of an ended ask only
Build ledger <workspace>/plan.md — see Ledger contract ✓ ✓ (Status / Evidence cells only, from verified evidence)
Steward digest $STATE_DIR/digests/<today>.md ✓
Status history <workspace>/status/YYYY-MM-DD.md + status/asks.json ✓ ✓

The workspace is the epic body's ## Workspace field resolved through the standard's §15 resolver — never derived from the slug.

Ledger contract

plan.md is a markdown table with at least these columns (others are free): Step · Issue (owner/repo#N, or blank for work with no issue) · Estimate (d) (working days) · Depends on (comma-separated step ids, or blank) · Status (todo · in-progress · waiting-on-operator · done) · Evidence (merged PR, commit, file — what proves done). The ledger is the project's plan; this skill only ever edits the Status and Evidence cells, from evidence, never from a summary. /build-chain-style chain ledgers already have this shape.

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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. 6d ago Changed · +1 lines b4d256cdad75
  2. 7d ago Changed · +24 lines 455bffe63704
  3. 9d ago First seen · 111 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A a94ef2daf973

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-status is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/abilities (12 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 3,865 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-08.