status

status is a skill for Claude Code from drewdrewthis/orchardist. It costs 41 tokens per session (197 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that reports the live state of Claude Code sessions on a machine, including whether each session is working, idle, or waiting for input.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check running sessions, see what they are doing, and identify sessions waiting for a response.
Why use it?
It shows which sessions are active and which need attention, while ignoring records belonging to stopped processes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the claude-session-state plugin — 1 skill, 8 hooks shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add drewdrewthis/orchardist
Claude Code
/plugin install claude-session-state

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-session-state, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 8 hooks.

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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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 197 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 5.1 $0.00041 $0.00197
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00098
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00039
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00020

Measured 6d ago against content hash e1c72d663d8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

plugin-sources/claude-session-state/skills/status/SKILL.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Session status

Live per-session state files: ${CLAUDE_SESSION_STATE_DIR:-~/.local/state/claude-sessions/state}/<sid>.json (contract: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/docs/STATE_SCHEMA.md).

  1. Preferred: orchard status --json (pid-checked, formatted). If the orchard binary is absent:
  2. Read the state dir directly. A file is live only if kill -0 <pid> succeeds — skip dead-pid files (crashed sessions).
  3. state = working|idle|input; message says why a session needs attention; first_prompt is its mission; transcript_path has full history.
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 First seen · 14 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A e1c72d663d8e

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status is a skill published in the GitHub repository drewdrewthis/orchardist (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 197 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 2026-08-31.