rf-status

name	rf-status
description	Show the current state of the research project — what has been done, what artifacts exist, what's still missing, and recommended next steps. Use when the user wants a progress overview or doesn't know where they left off. Trigger phrases: "where are we", "what have we done", "show project status", "what's next", "/rf-status".

Project Status

Read the current project state and report a clear progress snapshot.

Step 1 — Load Context

Check for _rf/research-context.md. If it doesn't exist, tell the user to run /rf-init first and stop.

Read the research context: project type, topic, deadline, citation style.

Step 2 — Scan Artifacts

Check _rf-output/ for existing artifacts. For each category, note what exists:

Document Analysis

• _rf-output/doc-analysis/ — any ingested/summarized/extracted documents?

Literature Review

• _rf-output/literature/ — any scouted papers, synthesis, or gap analysis?

Citations

• _rf-output/citations/ — any generated or formatted reference lists?

Thesis / PFE

• _rf-output/thesis/ — any structure, section drafts, or review outputs?

Step 3 — Compute Progress

For each module, assess:

• Not started — no artifacts found
• In progress — some artifacts exist, incomplete
• Done — key artifacts present and complete

Also check: how many days until the deadline (from research-context.md)?

Step 4 — Report

Output a clean status table like:

ResearchForge — Project Status
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Project:   [title]
Type:      [PFE / Master's / Paper]
Deadline:  [date] — [N days remaining]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ✅ Research context       initialized
  ✅ Document analysis      3 documents processed
  🔄 Literature review      scout done, synthesis pending
  ❌ Citation list          not started
  🔄 Thesis structure       outline complete, sections pending

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Recommended next step: /rf-lit-synthesize

Then ask: "Would you like to jump to [recommended skill]?"