lying-status

lying-status is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CrumbtrailDev/crumbtrail-cli. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,904 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A troubleshooting guide for cases where a displayed status does not match the actual work, such as showing “saved” when nothing was saved or “complete” when work is missing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate false success messages, stuck progress states, incomplete imports, missing side effects, and successful responses whose bodies describe failure.
Why use it?
It helps compare the status reported to the user with the underlying write, job, import, stream, or sync result.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the crumbtrail-skills plugin — 13 skills 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 skills/crumbtraildev/crumbtrail-cli/lying-status
Any agent
npx skills add CrumbtrailDev/crumbtrail-cli --skill lying-status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CrumbtrailDev/crumbtrail-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install crumbtrail-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 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 lying-status

README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,904 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 $0.00000 $0.01904
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00952
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00381
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00190

Measured 4d ago against content hash 4062fa55e1a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lying-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 4d 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/crumbtrail-skills/skills/lying-status/SKILL.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The lying status

Status and work travel on different paths. The work is a write, a job, a stream, a sync. The status is a flag, a response code, a progress record, a toast. Nothing makes the two atomic, so whenever the work fails after the status was committed, or the status is computed from something other than the work, the two diverge and the interface reports something that did not happen.

This is the archetype Crumbtrail is strongest on, for a structural reason: the product records the status plane and the work plane separately and can therefore contradict one with the other. Most of the queries below exist to put those two planes side by side.

Symptom

The interface said saved, sent, applied, synced, imported, complete, or showed a green check. The effect is missing, partial, or smaller than reported. Nothing errored.

Variants that are the same archetype: a progress record stuck at in progress with nothing running behind it; an import that reports a row count larger than the rows that exist; a job marked done that left work behind; a response with a success status whose body describes a failure.

What Crumbtrail can see

The status plane and the work plane, and both are ordinary parts of a recording:

  • The status plane: response status codes, response bodies, console output, and the interface events around them. Bodies are summarized when large and sensitive fields are replaced with a redaction marker, but a count or a flag in a body normally survives intact.
  • The work plane, where the database adapter is installed: row changes with the table, the primary key, the operation, the before and after column values, the request id that caused them and the call site file and line. This is the ground truth a status can be checked against.
  • The middle: backend request start, end and error records with the route, the status code and the duration, where the backend SDK is installed. This is what tells you whether the status came from the same process that did or did not do the work.

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 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. 4d ago First seen · 166 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 4062fa55e1a8

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lying-status is a skill published in the GitHub repository CrumbtrailDev/crumbtrail-cli (0 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,904 tokens. 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.