project-status

namespace	aiwg
name	project-status
platforms	["all"]
description	Cross-framework project status aggregator — discovers contributors from installed frameworks, runs declarative detection, produces a unified status report.
triggers	["help me know what is next","tell me where this project stands and what to do next","generate or refresh project status","project status"]
commandHint	{"argumentHint":"[project-directory=.] [--json] [--guidance \"text\"]","allowedTools":"Read, Glob, Grep, Bash","model":"haiku","category":"aiwg-utility","modelRole":"efficiency","modelTier":"economy"}

Skill access pattern (post-kernel-pivot, 2026.5+)

Skill names referenced in this document are AIWG skills, not slash commands. Most are not kernel-listed and cannot be invoked as /skill-name by the platform. Reach them via:

aiwg discover "<capability>"
aiwg show skill <name>

Only kernel-listed skills (aiwg-doctor, aiwg-refresh, aiwg-status, aiwg-help, use, steward) are directly invokable as slash commands. See skill-discovery rule.

Project Status (Cross-Framework Aggregator)

Task

Produce a unified status report covering every installed framework, addon, or extension that ships a kind: status contributor and is in active use on this project.

This is the cross-framework aggregator described in ADR-023 §Reference contributor frontmatter. It replaces the prior SDLC-only project-status behavior. SDLC-specific reporting now lives in the SDLC framework's status contributor at agentic/code/frameworks/sdlc-complete/status/contributor.md — when SDLC is the only contributor in use, the resulting report is functionally equivalent to the prior behavior.

Parameters

• [project-directory] (optional): Path to project root. Default: current directory .
• --json (optional): Emit machine-readable JSON instead of human-readable markdown
• --guidance "text" (optional): Extra context the agent should weigh while interpreting contributor blocks

Workflow

Step 1: Locate the registry and project root

Read .aiwg/frameworks/registry.json from the project root. The registry lists installed frameworks/addons/extensions by id. If the file is missing, treat it as zero installed frameworks — discovery still finds project-local contributors.

cat ./.aiwg/frameworks/registry.json 2>/dev/null

Step 2: Discover candidate contributors

Two sources, processed in order:

1. Framework-shipped contributors — for each id in the registry, look up its source path under the AIWG installation. Try in order:

   • <AIWG_ROOT>/agentic/code/frameworks/<id>/status/contributor.md
   • <AIWG_ROOT>/agentic/code/addons/<id>/status/contributor.md
   • <AIWG_ROOT>/agentic/code/extensions/<id>/status/contributor.md

   Use Glob to discover, then Read to load the contributor file.

2. Project-local contributors — every *.md file in <project-root>/.aiwg/contributors/status/. These are user-authored contributors that do not require forking a framework.

Step 3: Validate and run detection

For each candidate file:

1. Parse YAML frontmatter. Skip with a warning if frontmatter is malformed or missing required fields (kind, domain, description, detect.glob). The schema is published at <AIWG_ROOT>/agentic/code/addons/aiwg-utils/skills/project-status/contributor.schema.json — aiwg validate-metadata enforces it at deploy time, so most files reaching this step are valid.
2. Run the contributor's detect.glob patterns against the project root using Glob. Deduplicate matches. If unique match count is less than detect.minCount (default 1), the contributor is installed but not in use — silently filter out.
3. For surviving contributors, the agent reads the contributor file's body to learn what to report and how to format it.

Step 4: Gather state per contributor

For each in-use contributor, follow its body's guidance to read source files and compute reported state. Contributors are descriptive — they tell the agent what to look at; they do not run code.

Keep blocks compact. Per ADR-023 §Output voice, contributors emit observed state (counts, dates, phase names). Do not synthesize prescriptive "recommended commands" inside a contributor's block.

Step 5: Render the unified report

Default (markdown) output shape:

Project: <project-name> (<detected-domain-summary>)
├─ <Domain 1>: <one-line summary> (origin: <framework-id>)
│  ├─ <fact 1>
│  ├─ <fact 2>
│  └─ <fact N>
├─ <Domain 2>: <one-line summary> (origin: <framework-id>)
│  └─ ...
└─ <Domain K>: <one-line summary> (origin: project-local)
   └─ ...

Every block carries an origin: stamp — the framework id (e.g. sdlc-complete, media-curator) or the literal project-local. This lets the user see at a glance whether a finding came from a framework's contributor or a project-specific override.

Step 6: Handle empty discovery

If discovery returns zero in-use contributors:

• In a project that has frameworks installed but none are in use yet: surface "No active framework contributors detected. Run intake-wizard if this is a new project, or check .aiwg/frameworks/registry.json to confirm what's installed."
• In a project with no .aiwg/: defer to the heuristic fallback described in <AIWG_ROOT>/agentic/code/addons/aiwg-utils/skills/project-status/heuristic-fallback.md (added by issue #941). When that file is not yet present, surface a short "No project state detected" message.

--json output

Returns a structured array of contributor blocks. Stable shape:

{
  "project_root": "/abs/path",
  "contributors": [
    {
      "origin": "sdlc-complete",
      "domain": "SDLC",
      "summary": "Construction phase, iteration 12, 3 open risks",
      "detail": [
        { "label": "Phase", "value": "Construction (entered 2026-04-01)" },
        { "label": "Iteration", "value": "12 of 18 planned" }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "skipped": [
    { "origin": "media-curator", "reason":  
  

Downstream tooling (CI status badges, dashboards) consumes this shape directly.

Failure mode

Per ADR-023 §Failure mode:

• A contributor that fails frontmatter parsing or validation is skipped with reason schema-violation; aggregation continues.
• A contributor whose detection throws (rare — only filesystem permission errors should cause this) is skipped with reason detection-error.
• One bad contributor never aborts the whole report.

When --json is set, skips appear under the skipped array. In markdown output, skips are summarized under a ─ Skipped contributors footer when non-empty.

Anti-Patterns

• Do not invent contributor state. If a contributor's detection matches but its source files are absent or unreadable, emit the block with a clear "details unavailable" note rather than fabricating values.
• Do not merge or reorder contributor blocks. Registry order and project-local-last is the contract per ADR-023 §Discovery Algorithm. Users rely on it for predictable diffs over time.
• Do not call into other AIWG commands (aiwg index build, aiwg run …) from this skill. Status reporting is read-only. If a contributor needs built indexes, surface their absence rather than building them mid-report.

References

• @.aiwg/architecture/decisions/ADR-023-contributor-discovery-convention.md — Convention this skill implements
• @$AIWG_ROOT/agentic/code/addons/aiwg-utils/skills/project-status/contributor.schema.json — Published JSON Schema for kind: status frontmatter
• @$AIWG_ROOT/src/contributors/discover.ts — TS reference implementation used by aiwg validate-metadata; demonstrates the discovery algorithm in code
• @$AIWG_ROOT/agentic/code/frameworks/sdlc-complete/status/contributor.md — Reference status contributor (SDLC framework)
• @$AIWG_ROOT/agentic/code/frameworks/media-curator/status/contributor.md — Reference status contributor (media archives)
• @$AIWG_ROOT/agentic/code/frameworks/research-complete/status/contributor.md — Reference status contributor (research corpora)
• @$AIWG_ROOT/agentic/code/frameworks/sdlc-complete/skills/project-health-check/SKILL.md — Complementary skill: code and team health metrics (out of scope for project-status)