work-status

work-status is a skill for Claude Code from davepoon/buildwithclaude. It costs 46 tokens per session (280 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A status-reporting workflow for WORK items and TASKs stored in project files. It reads progress records and presents which work is pending, in progress, done, or archived.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to report the state of the work list, a specific WORK item, a task, or the overall task pipeline.
Why use it?
It gives a consistent way to answer project-status questions without manually searching several progress files.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the uc-taskmanager plugin — 4 skills, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to report the state of the work list, a specific…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davepoon/buildwithclaude/work-status
About the project

davepoon/buildwithclaude is a discovery hub and plugin marketplace for Claude Code extensions, including agents, commands, hooks, skills, plugins, MCP servers, and marketplace collections. Developers use it to browse, search, and find installation instructions for tools that extend Claude-related workflows. Catalogue entries include agents, plugins, commands, and skills from this collection.

davepoon/buildwithclaude · 3,419 stars · on GitHub · buildwithclaude.com

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 davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill work-status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install uc-taskmanager, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 6 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.

agentmods badge for work-status

README.md
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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 280 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 $0.00046 $0.00280
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00140
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00056
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00028

Measured yesterday against content hash d8f159a8c7e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

work-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.

plugins/agents-uc-taskmanager/skills/work-status/SKILL.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

WORK Status

Check and report the current status of WORKs and TASKs.

How to Check

  1. Read works/WORK-LIST.md for the master index of all WORKs
  2. For a specific WORK, read works/WORK-NN/PROGRESS.md for TASK-level progress
  3. For a specific TASK, read works/WORK-NN/TASK-NN_result.md for completion details

Status Values

Status Meaning
IN_PROGRESS WORK created, TASKs being executed
DONE All TASKs committed — committer auto-sets on last TASK
COMPLETED Archived to _COMPLETED/ — set during push

Display Format

WORK Status
  WORK-01: User Authentication    ✅ 5/5 completed
  WORK-02: Payment Integration    🔄 2/4 in progress
  WORK-03: Admin Dashboard        ⬜ 0/6 pending

Arguments

Query: $ARGUMENTS

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 · 36 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A d8f159a8c7e8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

work-status is a skill published in the GitHub repository davepoon/buildwithclaude (3,419 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 280 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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