/status

name: status
description: Read-only shift status covering items, parked decisions, snags, the deadline and STOP or stall state; starts no work.
license: MIT
metadata:
  internal: true

Report the shift status for the host-opened project **without starting or changing anything** — this is read-only. Modify no file, begin no work.

Resolve the installed plugin root to an absolute `$NIGHTSHIFT_PLUGIN_ROOT` — `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}` on Claude Code, `$PLUGIN_ROOT` on Codex when set, otherwise the absolute path this skill was attached from (`skills/status/SKILL.md`). Run every command below through `"$NIGHTSHIFT_PLUGIN_ROOT/runtime/ns"` — native Windows: `& "$NIGHTSHIFT_PLUGIN_ROOT\runtime\windows\ns.ps1"` in the PowerShell tool, same verbs — which resolves the host and the workspace; `ns help` lists the verbs, and `ns bind` prints the six resolved facts (`TASK_ROOT`, `NIGHTSHIFT_WORKSPACE`, `NS`, `NIGHTSHIFT_PLUGIN_ROOT`, `HOST`, `SOURCE`); `$NS` below is that `NS`. Never a bare relative path: the working directory persists between calls. Each `$NS/...` path below is where the current layout keeps that file; `ns path <key>` prints where this workspace keeps it, and `ns path --list` names every key.

1. Run the two read-only inspectors

"$NIGHTSHIFT_PLUGIN_ROOT/runtime/ns" status
"$NIGHTSHIFT_PLUGIN_ROOT/runtime/ns" doctor

`ns status` prints every fact: workspace, schema, armed or not, item counts and the current open item, parked entries, staged drafts and Hunt orders, recent snag dispositions, opportunity counts and any building entry, deadline remaining, `STOP`, stall attempts, session, lease, watch reason, work mode and target, artifact receipts, the completion record, and recent transitions. `ns doctor` adds the checks Status cannot make safely on its own — process liveness, the lease lines, and every Warning about a path that is not a usable file.

2. Render, never re-derive

Every number and every name above is already computed. Do not count boxes, subtract a deadline from the clock, read a marker, or work out what a state means: the fact lines carry their own meaning where there is one to carry.

Do not reimplement liveness, do not read the runtime-owned lease file directly, and never re-derive policy precedence. The inspectors validate through the shared library, classify the recorded pid and the watchman pid themselves, and never print a session id, a session scope, or an ownership capability.

Write a compact, glanceable summary in plain language. Lead with what matters tonight — that is your judgement, and the only judgement this skill asks for. What the facts say is not.

**Relay every Warning either inspector prints.** Each one is a real finding: a planted symlink where a marker should be is not an empty night, a malformed work mode is not a working site, and a failed clock-out is not a finished shift. Say what it means for the owner and name the confirm action the inspector offers. Never soften a warning into silence.

Do not print a project tool's raw output, credentials, raw evidence, a session id, or a transcript path. The inspectors do not emit them; do not go looking.

The project inventory is a separate optional report the owner asks for by name: `"$NIGHTSHIFT_PLUGIN_ROOT/runtime/ns" inventory`. Status never prints it unasked — a table of packages is not a glance.