work-state

work-state is a skill for Claude Code from AcKeskin/contexture. It costs 134 tokens per session (2,700 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only status checker for a project's work stages, from initial idea through archiving. It reports which files are present, missing, outdated, or complete, and identifies the next action.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check the current stage of a project item, find missing or stale planning documents, and see what should happen next.
Why use it?
It removes the need to inspect several folders and cross-check documents by hand to understand where work stands.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR variable.

Good fit Use it to check the current stage of a project item, find missing or stale planning documents, and see what should happen next.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ackeskin/contexture/work-state
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 AcKeskin/contexture --skill work-state
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AcKeskin/contexture

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 134 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,700 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 $0.00134 $0.02700
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.01350
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00540
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00270

Measured 5d ago against content hash 60b33caf35df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

work-state 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 5d 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.

skills/work-state/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

work-state

The scope chain's lifecycle-state driver. One question — where is this slug, and what's next? — answered as structured data computed from the filesystem, not narrated. The chain keeps real per-slug state on disk (vision / spec+INDEX / plan+spec-pin / blueprint / archive); /work-state <slug> reads that state and reports it the same way every time, machine-checked.

Governed by leverage-over-ceremony: replace the multi-directory hand-walk ("list specs, read INDEX, check the plan's pin, infer execute from recap") with one command, instant answer. The expensive part (is an artefact's content good enough) stays the model's/human's job — /work-state does only the cheap, deterministic part.

Where it sits. /checkpoint asks is it good; /work-state asks where is it / what's next. /update-changelog records what shipped (past); /work-state reports where in-flight work stands (present). /close-out closes a slug; /work-state reports when a slug has reached the close. Distinct lenses — /work-state is the one that's purely positional and purely deterministic.

When to run

  • User types /work-state <slug> or /status <slug> (explicit).
  • User asks "where is <slug> in the chain", "what's the next step for <slug>", "is <slug>'s plan stale", "did I ever execute <slug>".
  • Do not auto-fire. Mode A, user-invoked. Read-only — it never writes, never mutates an artefact (the one inviolable property; see "What it does NOT do").

The chain and its dependency graph

The fixed stage order and what each stage depends on (the graph the resolver computes over):

Stage Artefact on disk Depends on
vision .claude/visions/<slug>/ (active version via its INDEX, if present)
spec .claude/specs/<slug>/ active version (.claude/specs/INDEX.md) vision (soft — a spec can exist without a vision)
plan .claude/plans/<slug>/ active version, with a spec: frontmatter pin spec
blueprint .claude/docs/<slug>/ active version (optional stage) plan (soft — blueprint is optional)
execute no artefact of its own plan
archive .claude/archive/<date>-<slug>/ (the close-out terminus) execute

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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. 5d ago First seen · 115 lines · 134 tokens per session scan A 60b33caf35df

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work-state is a skill published in the GitHub repository AcKeskin/contexture (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 134 tokens to every session and 2,700 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-09-03.

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