ss-status

ss-status is a skill for Claude Code from MartyBonacci/specswarm. It costs 23 tokens per session (255 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A status-check workflow for SpecSwarm builds, where several automated tasks may work on a software project. It reports whether a build or background session is running and how far it has progressed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check build progress, see whether a task is finished, inspect active background sessions, or answer questions about the current build state.
Why use it?
It gives developers a quick way to check ongoing work without manually inspecting build-state files or background sessions. It is read-only and does not change the build.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the ss plugin — 10 skills, 34 commands, 6 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to check build progress, see whether a task is finished, inspect active background sessions, or answer questions about the current build state.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/martybonacci/specswarm/ss-status
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 MartyBonacci/specswarm --skill ss-status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MartyBonacci/specswarm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ss, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 34 commands, 6 agents, 4 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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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 255 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 $0.00023 $0.00255
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00128
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00051
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00026

Measured 8d ago against content hash 25690f92a63f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ss-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 8d 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/ss/skills/ss-status/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

SpecSwarm Status Check

Provides natural language access to /ss:status command.

Dynamic Context

Current build state: !cat .specswarm/build-loop.state 2>/dev/null || echo "No active build"

When to Invoke

Trigger this skill when the user asks about:

  • Build progress or status
  • Whether something is done or still running
  • Background session status
  • "How's the build going?"

Examples:

  • "How's the build going?"
  • "Is it done yet?"
  • "Check progress"
  • "What's the status?"
  • "Show me background sessions"

Instructions

Auto-execute on clear intent:

  1. Detect that user is asking about build/session status
  2. Execute immediately: Run /ss:status
  3. No confirmation needed — this is a read-only operation

Semantic Understanding

Status equivalents: status, progress, check, how's it going, is it done, still running, background, sessions

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. 8d ago First seen · 43 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 25690f92a63f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ss-status is a skill published in the GitHub repository MartyBonacci/specswarm (65 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 255 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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