Status Skill

Show a compact dashboard of everything currently active in this session and its surroundings. Focus on things the user started and forgot about, not on docs or priorities.

When this fires vs. related skills

Don't invoke /next, /brief, or /pickup from here — they're separate flows.

What to check (in order — stop early if nothing active)

1. In-conversation background handles

• Background Bash processes launched with run_in_background: true this session
• Agent calls launched with run_in_background: true
• Active /loop or /batch-tasks invocations in this conversation

Check via the conversation history — these handles surface in prior tool results.

2. Local git state

git status -sb
git log --oneline @{upstream}..HEAD 2>/dev/null | head -5   # unpushed
git worktree list

3. Orchestrator layer (if running on this machine)

Probe http://localhost:8000/health (or project-specific port). If reachable:

• Active workers
• Running loops
• Recent task completions (last hour)

Skip silently if orchestrator isn't running — it's optional.

4. GitHub (only if user mentioned a PR recently)

gh pr list --author "@me" --state open --limit 5
gh run list --limit 3   # recent CI runs

Skip if no recent PR context in conversation.

Output format

━━━ Session Status ━━━
Background here:
  • {handle} — {what it's doing} ({elapsed})
  • ... or "none"

Local git:
  Branch: {name} ({N ahead / M behind} upstream)
  Dirty:  {N files} | Worktrees: {count}
  Unpushed: {count}

Orchestrator: {N workers, M loops active | not running}

GitHub: {open PRs, CI state | skipped}
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
→ {one-line recommendation: continue watching X / poke loop Y / resume your last task}

Rules

• If everything is none / clean / not running: say so in one line, don't pad the dashboard.
• Keep total output ≤20 lines. This is a glance, not a report.
• Do NOT summarize commits, TODOs, or goals — that's /brief or /pickup.
• Do NOT kill, restart, or modify any background process unless the user explicitly asks.
• If a background agent finished since the user last saw it, highlight the result in the "Background here" row (e.g. • worker-3 — DONE 12m ago: tests passed).
• If a background process appears hung (no progress in 5+ minutes for an active-looking task): flag it explicitly; don't kill it unprompted.

Completion Status

• ✅ DONE: Dashboard shown; user has a clear picture of active work.
• ⚠ DONE_WITH_CONCERNS: Some sources unreachable (e.g. orchestrator down) — noted in output.
• ❌ BLOCKED: Unable to read git or conversation state — surface the failure.