status

A read-only report of a Git workflow's current position, including the branch, ticket, commits, pull request, release and quality checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check progress on a branch, ticket, pull request or release, and optionally create an HTML report.
Why use it?
It shows what has already happened and the recommended next step without changing repository or GitHub state.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the git-workflow plugin — 21 skills, 8 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rlajous/claude-code-commands/status
Any agent
npx skills add rlajous/claude-code-commands --skill status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rlajous/claude-code-commands

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install git-workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 8 agents, 2 hooks.

Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,184 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00075 $0.01184
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00592
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00237
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00118

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5055fb7ad395, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/status-report.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.

skills/status/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cross-runtime: follow runtime compatibility for invocation, delegation, configuration precedence, state paths, and permissions.

You are reporting the current position in the git-workflow pipeline and the recommended next step. This is read-only — never modify Git state, never create branches/commits/PRs. Follow each step in order.

Step 1: Parse Arguments

  • --html → also generate a self-contained HTML status report (see Step 6).

Step 2: Load Context

Read the durable workflow context if present:

  • .git-workflow/pr-context.json — ticket id/title, branch, type, timestamps written by /start, /tdd, /commit.
  • .git-workflow/config.yamlworkflow.developmentBranch/productionBranch, issue tracker.

If a canonical file is absent, read its matching legacy .claude/ fallback as defined in the compatibility reference. If neither form exists, fall back to live Git/GitHub state only.

Step 3: Gather Live State (read-only)

git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD                 # current branch
git status --porcelain                          # uncommitted changes?
git log --oneline origin/{devBranch}..HEAD      # commits ahead of the dev branch

If gh is available and authenticated, also gather (skip gracefully on failure):

gh pr view --json number,title,state,reviewDecision,statusCheckRollup,url   # PR for current branch, if any
gh release list --limit 1                                                     # latest release

Step 4: Determine Pipeline Position

Infer which stage the work is in, in this order:

Signal Stage
On dev/prod branch, clean tree Idle — no active feature
Feature branch, no commits ahead Started — branch created, nothing committed
Feature branch, uncommitted changes In progress — changes not yet committed
Commits ahead, no PR Committed — ready to open a PR
PR open, checks pending/failing In review (CI/{state})
PR open, CHANGES_REQUESTED In review — changes requested
PR open, APPROVED Approved — ready to merge
On a release/* branch Releasing

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 3d ago First seen · 106 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 5055fb7ad395

Subscribe to this mod's changes

status is a skill published in the GitHub repository rlajous/claude-code-commands (30 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,184 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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