patch-status

patch-status is a skill for Claude Code from lexfrei/ccc. It costs 100 tokens per session (907 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A status checker for Linux kernel patches using Patchwork, a service that tracks what maintainers do with submitted patches, together with the related mailing-list discussion.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps you check whether a patch or patch series is new, accepted, rejected, or awaiting changes, then choose whether to wait, repost, or contact maintainers.
Why use it?
It prevents you from judging a patch only by its email replies when its official review state may say something different.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the lkml plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps you check whether a patch or patch series is new, accepted, rejected, or awaiting changes, then choose whether to wait, repost, or contact maintainers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lexfrei/ccc/patch-status
View source ↗ lexfrei/ccc
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 lexfrei/ccc --skill patch-status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lexfrei/ccc

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lkml, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 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 patch-status

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lexfrei/ccc/patch-status/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/lexfrei/ccc/patch-status)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lexfrei/ccc/patch-status"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lexfrei/ccc/patch-status/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 patch-status

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lexfrei/ccc/patch-status"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lexfrei/ccc/patch-status.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 907 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00100 $0.00907
Opus 5.5 $0.00040 $0.00363
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00181
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00091

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c42e4d07b1e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

patch-status scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl --silent "https://patchwork.kernel.org/api/1.2/patches/?project=netdevbpf&msgid=<message-id>" | jq '.[0] | {state, delegate: .delegate.username, web: .web_url}'
skills/lkml/skills/patch-status/SKILL.md · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Patchwork tracks what maintainers will do with a patch; the mailing list tracks what people said about it. Check both before concluding anything: a thread with zero replies can still be accepted, and a thread full of praise can sit at changes-requested.

Query by Message-ID

curl --silent "https://patchwork.kernel.org/api/1.2/patches/?project=netdevbpf&msgid=<message-id>" | jq '.[0] | {state, delegate: .delegate.username, web: .web_url}'
  • <message-id> is bare, without angle brackets — the ID of a patch mail (1/N, 2/N, ...). Cover letters are not patches; querying a 0/N ID returns an empty list.
  • project=netdevbpf covers netdev and bpf. Other kernel subsystems have their own project slugs on the same instance — list them via https://patchwork.kernel.org/api/1.2/projects/ and match by list_email. Some subsystems do not use patchwork at all; an empty result for every patch of a series means look at the thread and the maintainer's git tree instead.
  • Other projects run their own instances with the same API (U-Boot lives on patchwork.ozlabs.org, project=uboot).

What the states mean

state meaning your move
new in the queue, nobody triaged it wait
under-review a maintainer is looking wait
changes-requested review asked for changes answer every comment in-thread, then new version as a new thread
superseded a newer version of the series replaced it check the newest version instead
accepted / queued applied to the maintainer tree done; netdev also sends an "applied" mail to the thread
rejected / not-applicable will not be taken as-is read the thread for the reason before doing anything
deferred / awaiting-upstream parked on something external find what it waits for in the thread

delegate set to a maintainer (e.g. netdev) means the series is in that queue — a good sign, not a request for action.

A reply in the thread reading pw-bot: cr (or pw-bot: changes-requested) is a bot command that moved the series to changes-requested. Treat it exactly like the state: the next posting is a new version in a new thread, never a reply with fixed patches.

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 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. 1mo ago First seen · 45 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A c42e4d07b1e6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

patch-status is a skill published in the GitHub repository lexfrei/ccc (11 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 907 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.