dev-status-tracking

dev-status-tracking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,748 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A context-management approach for long development projects using AI assistants. It keeps a status file with project decisions and progress so the assistant can recover important context when a conversation becomes too long.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up project status tracking, automatic update rules, and a pattern for separating major activities into chats. It is intended for complex, ongoing development work.
Why use it?
AI conversations have limited context, so earlier work can be forgotten or compressed. A persistent status record reduces the chance of repeating work or losing track of decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the design-engineer plugin — 35 skills, 11 commands, 10 agents, 6 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/volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin/dev-status-tracking
Any agent
npx skills add volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin --skill dev-status-tracking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install design-engineer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 35 skills, 11 commands, 10 agents, 6 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,748 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 $0.00035 $0.01748
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00874
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00175

Measured 4d ago against content hash 838c56269340, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dev-status-tracking 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 4d 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.

skills/dev-status-tracking/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context Management

Why This Matters

When you work on something complex with AI, it forgets things. Every conversation has a token limit (~200,000 tokens), and when you hit it, earlier parts get compressed or lost. AI might forget components already built, decisions already made, and approaches that did not work.

The solution is simple: keep a status file for AI to read at the start of every development task. Sub-agents also help by running heavy work in separate chats with separate token limits, preserving the main conversation's budget.

Interaction Method

If AskUserQuestion is available, use it for all prompts below.

If not, present each question as a numbered list and wait for a reply before proceeding. For multiSelect questions, accept comma-separated numbers (e.g. 1, 3). Never skip or auto-answer without explicit user consent.


Step 0: Before starting

  1. Announce your execution plan: Before doing anything, state what you will do in this activity: "Here's what I'm going to do: 1) set up a development status file for your project, 2) configure automatic update rules in CLAUDE.md, 3) implement the one-activity-per-chat pattern for context preservation, 4) share context survival strategies for long-running projects." This is a commitment device – harder to skip steps you just announced.

  2. Conditional teaching: Ask the user if they are familiar with context management in AI-assisted development – why AI forgets things and how a status file helps. If yes, give a one-sentence refresher. If no, explain it in simple terms: every AI conversation has a memory limit, and when you hit it, earlier context gets compressed or lost – a status file is a persistent document AI reads at the start of every task so it knows what's been built, what's in progress, and what to avoid.

    Required: ALWAYS ask the question, ALWAYS give the refresher when the user says yes. Never skip this step because the user "is a designer" or "already demonstrated familiarity earlier." Users want a memory refresh on every activity, including ones they know. Phrases like "I'll skip the explainer (you're a designer)" are forbidden — they signal the model has decided ON BEHALF OF the user that a refresher isn't needed. The user, not the model, decides what's redundant. The refresher takes one sentence; the cost is trivial; the value to a tired user mid-session is high.

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 4d ago First seen · 140 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 838c56269340

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dev-status-tracking is a skill published in the GitHub repository volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin (19 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,748 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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