Check where you are in the project and what work is in progress.

Status Check

This skill helps you understand the current state of the project before starting new work.

Usage

/status

What This Skill Does

Step 0: Sync team state

# Sync team state before showing status
forge sync || true

Step 1: Smart Status (ranked issues with conflict detection)

bash scripts/smart-status.sh

This command dynamically computes and displays all issues ranked by composite score (priority, dependency impact, type, staleness, epic proximity). Output includes active sessions, conflict risk annotations, and grouped categories. No manual querying needed.

For full context on any issue: forge show <id>

For the full workflow contract and command reference at session start, run forge prime.

Step 1b: Reconcile stale in-progress issues

Check if any in-progress issues were already merged but not closed (can happen if /verify was skipped or backup was restored from stale snapshot):

# Detect default branch dynamically (prefer main over master)
DEFAULT_BRANCH=$(git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD 2>/dev/null | sed 's|refs/remotes/origin/||')
if [ -z "$DEFAULT_BRANCH" ]; then
  if git rev-parse --verify main >/dev/null 2>&1; then DEFAULT_BRANCH="main"
  elif git rev-parse --verify master >/dev/null 2>&1; then DEFAULT_BRANCH="master"
  else echo "ERROR: No main or master branch found -- skipping stale reconciliation" >&2; DEFAULT_BRANCH=""; fi
fi

# For each in_progress issue, check if its PR was already merged
if [ -n "$DEFAULT_BRANCH" ]; then
  forge list --status=in_progress --json 2>/dev/null | jq -r '.[].id' | while read id; do
    # Search git log for the issue ID in commit messages (fixed-strings for literal match)
    if git log --oneline --first-parent "$DEFAULT_BRANCH" --fixed-strings --grep="$id" | grep -q .; then
      echo "STALE: $id -- found in git history, likely already merged"
    fi
  done
fi

If stale issues are found, close them:

forge close <id> --force --reason="Already merged -- detected during status reconciliation"

Step 2: Review Recent Commits

git log --oneline -10

Step 3: Determine Context

• New feature: No active work, ready to start fresh
• Continuing work: In-progress issues found, resume where left off
• Review needed: Work marked complete, needs review/merge

Team context

Show current developer's active work and team overview:

# Show my active issues
forge team workload --me 2>&1 || true

# One-line team summary
forge team dashboard 2>&1 | head -5 || true

Next Steps

• If starting new work: Run /plan <feature-name>
• If continuing work: Resume with appropriate phase command
• If reviewing: Run /review <pr-number> (the pre-merge doc gate is embedded in /ship and /review)