status

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Project status at a glance — dashboard, active plans, attention items

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the status skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by perpetualsoftware/pad in plugin/skills/status/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Run pad project dashboard --format json. Before presenting results, handle these two failure modes:

  • pad CLI missing (command not found): say so and point at https://getpad.dev/install. Don't retry or guess at alternate paths.
  • No .pad.toml found in the directory tree: say this project isn't linked to a Pad workspace yet and suggest /pad:onboard.

If the response's needs_onboarding field is true, lead with the same active offer the main skill uses — before anything else: "This workspace is brand new and isn't set up yet. Want me to set it up? I'll ask a few quick questions and adapt it to your project." This is an offer, not an auto-run; mention /pad:onboard as the shortcut for later.

Otherwise, present it conversationally: collection summaries, active plan progress, attention items (stalled/overdue), and suggested next actions.

Connection header (show this first, above the dashboard). Also run pad session status --format json and lead with a one-line connection state, so a user who types /pad:status after reading the push docs sees whether this session is wired to Pad's live stream:

  • announced_armed true → "Set to accept pushes (armed)." announced_armed means consent is on, NOT that a monitor is connected — so only add a live claim from the server: if server_reachable is true, "server sees accepting_sessions of connected_sessions sessions accepting pushes"; if false, "(server not reachable)".
  • local_state is disarmed and auto_arm is true → "Disconnected this session (auto_arm will re-arm the next session)."
  • local_state is error → "Local push state unreadable — failing closed; run /pad:connect to reset."
  • otherwise not accepting → "Not accepting pushes — run /pad:connect to receive them here."

Keep it to one line; it's a header, not the main event. If pad session status fails (e.g. padd unreachable), skip the header rather than blocking the dashboard.

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