runglance

runglance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Openly-Useful/project-status. It costs 99 tokens per session (1,353 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A local status display and companion tool for showing what an agent run is doing, whether it is stale or explicitly locked, and what has finished.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor agents, skills, tests, workflows, and automations; inspect setup; expose limited status through MCP; and track runtime information without storing prompts, credentials, source files, or raw tool arguments.
Why use it?
It separates confirmed facts from calculations, estimates, and unknowns, avoiding misleading claims about quotas, context limits, or stalled work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the runglance plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to monitor agents, skills, tests, workflows, and automations; inspect setup; expose limited status through MCP; and track runtime information without storing prompts, credentials, source files, or raw tool arguments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openly-useful/project-status/runglance
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 Openly-Useful/project-status --skill runglance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Openly-Useful/project-status

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install runglance, 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 runglance

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/openly-useful/project-status/runglance.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/openly-useful/project-status/runglance)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/openly-useful/project-status/runglance"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/openly-useful/project-status/runglance.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,353 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 $0.00099 $0.01353
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00677
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00271
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00135

Measured today against content hash b00a18265750, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

runglance 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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/entrypoint.mjs, scripts/runglance-adapter.mjs, scripts/runglance-core.mjs, …), 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/claude/runglance/skills/runglance/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

StatusGlance / RunGlance

Give users an immediate, evidence-honest answer to “what is running, is it stuck, and what finished?” Keep the terminal HUD local and dependency-free; use the MCP companion only when a model needs bounded status queries.

Default invocation: one read-only snapshot

Calling $runglance means inspect existing activity once. Use the known task session and runtime, or one bounded MCP query. Do not start a run, install hooks, watch, run tests, update the ledger, or emit a finish receipt merely to answer status. If no telemetry exists, report not connected / no events observed; do not manufacture activity.

node <skill-dir>/scripts/runglance.mjs show --session-id <known-session> --preset swarm

An explicit session or isolated runtime prevents cross-project selection. Multiple sessions without a selection are ambiguous. Show each lane's latest concrete result, blocker/next action, and measured progress when its denominator exists; otherwise show unknown. Distinguish implemented, tested, and accepted. Report repeated revision or stale evidence without launching corrective work from a status-only request.

During authorized execution, record meaningful lifecycle/progress deltas and milestone verification, not every message or refresh. Reuse host events and existing task IDs. Use one local deterministic HUD process only when live watching was requested; do not schedule model polling. Loop roles are responsibilities, not mandatory extra agents.

Preserve the truth boundary

  • Report host-provided facts as exact, calculated facts as derived, opt-in approximations as estimated, and unavailable facts as unknown.
  • Never convert token counts into subscription quota, invent context capacity, or treat silence as a lock.
  • Report locked only after an explicit lock event with an owner. A missed heartbeat can report stale.
  • Keep run progress separate from project readiness. A passing check proves only that check.
  • Do not persist prompts, responses, transcripts, environment variables, credentials, raw tool arguments, or source files.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. today Changed · +14 lines b00a18265750
  2. 8d ago First seen · 80 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 73bbebe0f5a9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

runglance is a skill published in the GitHub repository Openly-Useful/project-status (0 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 1,353 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.