bf-status

bf-status is a skill for Claude Code from chan4lk/specclaw. It costs 148 tokens per session (1,427 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only status command for a brownfield rebuild, meaning a project being rebuilt while existing code and behavior still matter. It reports each phase, its outputs, blocking open items, and the next command to run.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect the progress of the analyze, architecture, domain, UI, baseline, planning, and related rebuild phases.
Why use it?
It replaces scattered phase information with one current view of what is complete and what is holding the rebuild back.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the specclaw plugin — 32 skills, 21 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect the progress of the analyze, architecture, domain, UI, baseline, planning, and related rebuild phases.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chan4lk/specclaw/bf-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 chan4lk/specclaw --skill bf-status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chan4lk/specclaw

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install specclaw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 21 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.

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Per session 148 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,427 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00148 $0.01427
Opus 5 $0.00074 $0.00714
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00285
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00143

Measured 3d ago against content hash 281007718501, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bf-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.

plugins/specclaw/skills/bf-status/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

specclaw bf-status

First, run specclaw-ensure-init .specclaw — idempotently creates .specclaw/ if it doesn't exist (silent if already initialized; auto-inits using the current directory's basename as the project name).

Show where the brownfield workstream stands. Read-only side-command — no specclaw-validate-change call, no <change> involved, matching the status/patterns/bf-analyze pattern.

  1. Compute and render:

    specclaw-bf-status .specclaw
    

    Deterministic, read-only, cheap. Everything it reports is recomputed from each phase's own declared artifacts on every run.

    If it exits non-zero, surface its stderr message verbatim and stop — the only failures are a missing <specclaw_dir> (run /specclaw:init) and a missing argument. Don't retry, don't guess a different path.

  2. Relay its output to the user. It is already a finished markdown report — a phase table, a Needs attention list, and a Next line. Present it as-is rather than paraphrasing it into prose. The attention list in particular is a work list someone can act on today; summarising it away is exactly the failure this command exists to fix.

  3. Lead with the Next line, then name anything in Needs attention the user should know is human work no command can do for them: answering a blocking question, capturing a fixture or a screenshot, confirming the module map. Those are the items that silently stall a rebuild, because no command ever fails on account of them.

  4. If the user asked about one specific module rather than the workstream as a whole, run the per-module view instead — it answers a different question and this command deliberately does not duplicate it:

    specclaw-bf-rebuild-collect module-status .specclaw
    

    That writes .specclaw/analysis/module-status.md: one row per MOD-### with backlog items planned/total, scenarios captured/designed, the latest module-scoped replay verdict, stub-tainted item counts, and open questions naming that module.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. 3d ago First seen · 61 lines · 148 tokens per session scan A 281007718501

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bf-status is a skill published in the GitHub repository chan4lk/specclaw (12 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 148 tokens to every session and 1,427 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 2026-09-05.

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