Status board
SkillMediaRender the state of the work in flight as an ASCII status board in the terminal, instead of a status paragraph.
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Add Ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by backnotprop/bro in skills/status/SKILL.md and read by Ahel’s review.
Show me where everything stands as a board in the terminal. The board replaces the status paragraph. Do not write both.
- Group rows under a short uppercase header with a rule line, one section per phase or stream of work.
- One row per item: a short name, a dotted leader to a fixed column, one status mark, then a terse note. Keep names short and put the detail in the note.
- Use one glyph per state, the same across the whole board: ✅ done, 🔨 in progress, 🟡 blocked or waiting, ⬜ not started, ✖ dropped or closed. Marks go in the mark column only.
- Write a dependency in the note as
← waits on X. If everything waits on the same thing, say it once. - Close with a section for what waits on the human: decisions, approvals, anything only they can do. Add one line for what is running right now if agents or jobs are in flight.
- Include only rows you can vouch for. Unknown state is ⬜ with "not verified". Never guess a mark.
- Fit about 80 columns, align the columns, and use no box-drawing tables and no prose paragraphs.
INTAKE ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
scope note ......................... ✅ 3 items, agreed
source data ........................ ✅ 1.2k rows, spot checked
field mapping ...................... ✅ 12 of 12 mapped
access keys ........................ 🟡 ← waits on your approval
BUILD ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
importer ........................... ✅ handles the 3 known formats
dedupe pass ........................ 🔨 running, ~200 dupes so far
report layout ...................... ⬜ not started
csv export ......................... ✖ dropped, nobody asked for it
RELEASE ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
staging run ........................ ⬜ ← waits on dedupe pass
team review ........................ ⬜ not scheduled
rollback note ...................... ⬜ not verified
WAITING ON YOU ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
approve the access keys, which closes intake
pick the report layout: one page, or one per region
RUNNING NOW: dedupe pass, about 5 minutes left
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- Sep 2026
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