status

status is a skill for Claude Code from VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile. It costs 58 tokens per session (2,781 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A job-search status and calibration report. It reads application files to show what is active, waiting, abandoned, or worth pursuing, then compares past predictions with actual results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review the whole application queue or narrow the report to a company or path, and to check whether predicted outcomes such as interviews match what actually happened.
Why use it?
It helps reveal where the job search stands and whether its assessments are reliable instead of simply optimistic. It can also write the findings back to the job-search records.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the slushpile plugin — 11 skills, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review the whole application queue or narrow the report to a company or path, and to check whether predicted outcomes such as interviews match what actually happened.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vonterraproject501c3/slushpile/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 VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile --skill status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install slushpile, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 8 agents.

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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vonterraproject501c3/slushpile/status/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/vonterraproject501c3/slushpile/status)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vonterraproject501c3/slushpile/status"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vonterraproject501c3/slushpile/status/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vonterraproject501c3/slushpile/status"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vonterraproject501c3/slushpile/status.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,781 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00058 $0.02781
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.01391
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00556
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00278

Measured 10d ago against content hash ba3e608574cb, 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 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 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.

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 · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Status

Every other skill in this pipeline writes application.yaml. This one reads them all back.

Two questions, answered together on purpose:

Where does the search stand? What is in flight, what is waiting on the user, what has gone silent past the point of hope, and which of the assessed-not-applied roles is worth the next slot.

Is the pipeline any good? The regression of what the review predicted against what actually happened. A pipeline that grades most applications INTERVIEW and converts five percent is not producing signal, it is producing optimism, and nothing else in the system will ever contradict it.

Announce at start: "Reading every application.yaml in the workspace. Reporting queue state and pipeline calibration."

Arguments:

  • $1 — optional. A company name or a path, to narrow the report. With nothing, the whole workspace.

Example:

/slushpile:status
/slushpile:status Acme

Why Calibration Lives Here

The calibration regression was originally its own command, run monthly. It did not get run.

A maintenance ritual with no forcing function competes against whatever the user actually opened the terminal to do, and it loses every time — most reliably when the pipeline is drifting, because a drifting pipeline is one that keeps saying encouraging things. Folding it into the command someone runs to see their queue means the drift arrives whether or not they asked for it.

The cost is that this skill does two jobs. That is the intended trade.

Prerequisites

  • applications/**/application.yaml — the corpus. Everything here is read from these.
  • job_search.md — the tracker, and where the calibration table is written back
  • preferences.yaml — for calibration_priors, which this skill maintains

If no application.yaml files exist, say so and stop. There is nothing to report on and a status page assembled from zero records looks the same as one assembled from a healthy search.

Phase 1: Read the Corpus

Find every application.yaml under applications/. Read each one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 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 · 173 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A ba3e608574cb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

status is a skill published in the GitHub repository VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile (15 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 2,781 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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