status-update

status-update is a skill for Claude Code from fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins. It costs 193 tokens per session (2,336 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A status-reporting workflow that stores project information in a data file and generates a project page plus a portfolio dashboard.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after shipping features, completing reviews or test campaigns, closing gaps, or finishing coordinated batches of work.
Why use it?
It makes progress visible over time and keeps the project report and portfolio view derived from the same source.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the status-update plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it after shipping features, completing reviews or test campaigns, closing gaps, or finishing coordinated batches of work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins/status-update
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 fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins --skill status-update
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install status-update, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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 status-update

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins/status-update/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins/status-update)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins/status-update"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins/status-update/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for status-update

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins/status-update"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins/status-update.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 193 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,336 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 $0.00193 $0.02336
Opus 5.5 $0.00077 $0.00934
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00039 $0.00467
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00234

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3c0e9b652d68, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

status-update 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/render.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/status-update/skills/status-update/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Status update — the page is the report

A status update written into chat is read once and then scrolls away. The same content as a page is still there tomorrow, and the portfolio dashboard beside it answers the question the chat message never could: how does this project compare to the other twenty-six.

So the deliverable here is two files and a two-line reply, never a wall of prose.

You write one file — <project>/.status/project.json. Everything else is derived from it by scripts/render.py: the project's own STATUS.html, its row in ~/Dev/.status/portfolio.json, and the portfolio dashboard at ~/Dev/STATUS.html. Deriving the dashboard row rather than writing it twice is what stops the two files disagreeing, and drift between them would be invisible until someone read both.

Deliver exactly that. Do not also paste the report into chat, and do not expand this into a portfolio survey — that belongs to ship-armada:ship-armada.

Protocol

  1. Identify the project. Walk up from the working directory to the child of ~/Dev. If you are in ~/Dev itself, ask which project rather than guessing.

  2. Read the existing data at <project>/.status/project.json if it is there. You are updating a record, not starting one, and the fields you have no news about keep their previous values.

  3. Gather the delta from what you already know. This session is the primary source. Top it up cheaply with git -C <project> log --oneline --since=<the file's updated stamp> and git -C <project> status --porcelain. Open other files only where you have reason to think a specific field changed.

  4. Write <project>/.status/project.json. The full field list is in references/data-contract.md; read it before your first write in a project. Every field is optional except project, updated and verdict, and a field you have no honest value for is left out rather than filled with a zero — the pages render "not reported" and "nobody checked this" as distinct states, and both are more useful than a false zero.

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 177 lines · 193 tokens per session scan A 3c0e9b652d68

Subscribe to this mod's changes

status-update is a skill published in the GitHub repository fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 193 tokens to every session and 2,336 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-04.