status

status is a skill for Claude Code from nicholasglazer/gnosis-mcp. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,789 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A diagnostic command for checking whether the gnosis-mcp server is connected, its data structure is valid, and its document collection is healthy.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when MCP calls fail, return no results, or produce unexpected results; it can check connectivity, database statistics, or extended diagnostics.
Why use it?
It helps identify whether failures come from the server, the client connection, the database, or missing data.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the gnosis plugin — 8 skills, 5 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when MCP calls fail, return no results, or produce unexpected results; it can check connectivity, database statistics, or extended diagnostics.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nicholasglazer/gnosis-mcp/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 nicholasglazer/gnosis-mcp --skill status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicholasglazer/gnosis-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gnosis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 5 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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

README.md
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Your own site
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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

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,789 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Agent Snooping · line 40
    Skill accesses MCP server configuration files (mcp.json). MCP configs contain server URLs, authentication tokens, and tool definitions — reading them allows the skill to discover and potentially abuse other tool integrations.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that read MCP configuration files (mcp.json). MCP server details should be managed by the agent runtime, not read by individual skills.
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 $0.00031 $0.01789
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00894
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00358
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00179

Measured 10d ago against content hash d14dfc083bfe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 10d 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 -fsS http://127.0.0.1:8000/health | jq .
skills/status/SKILL.md · 255 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 255 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Status

Diagnostic for "something is wrong with gnosis-mcp". Produces a compact report the user can screenshot and paste in an issue.

Usage

/gnosis:status              # Full check — connectivity + schema + stats + common failure modes
/gnosis:status quick        # Just connectivity
/gnosis:status stats        # Document / chunk / embedding counts
/gnosis:status diag         # Extended diagnostics (used when something is wrong)

Mode: $ARGUMENTS


Step 1 — connectivity

Preferred path: the MCP itself. If mcp__gnosis__* tools respond, the server is up and MCP is wired correctly.

mcp__gnosis__get_graph_stats()

If that returns data, skip to Step 2.

MCP tool not available

Two common causes:

  1. Server not running — for stdio transport, the MCP client should auto-spawn the server. If not: check .mcp.json / .claude/mcp.json config, confirm gnosis-mcp is on PATH.
  2. Server running, but client not connected — restart the editor once MCP config is correct.

Direct CLI check (works independent of MCP wiring):

gnosis-mcp check

Expected output:

Backend: sqlite (SQLite 3.46.0)
Database: /home/<you>/.local/share/gnosis-mcp/docs.db
chunks_table_exists: true (1742 rows)
fts_table_exists:    true
sqlite_vec:          true
vec_table_exists:    true (1742 rows)
links_table_exists:  true (812 rows)
embeddings_coverage: 100.0%

If check itself returns errors, stop here — the server can't talk to its own database. Likely causes:

  • DB file doesn't exist → gnosis-mcp init-db
  • DB schema old → gnosis-mcp init-db (idempotent, adds any new columns)
  • SQLite extension missing (sqlite_vec: false) → pip install 'gnosis-mcp[embeddings]'

Step 2 — corpus stats

mcp__gnosis__get_graph_stats()

Report in a compact block:

Docs:       412
Chunks:     1,247   (avg 3.0 per doc at current chunk_size)
Orphans:    18      (docs with no graph edges)
Top hubs:
  README.md        37 links
  docs/tools.md    24 links
  docs/config.md   19 links

Edge types:
  related           612
  content_link      410
  git_co_change     225

Read the full file on GitHub · 255 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. 10d ago First seen · 255 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A d14dfc083bfe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

status is a skill published in the GitHub repository nicholasglazer/gnosis-mcp (29 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,789 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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