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Status by emaballarin — Agent Skill

Name: Status
Author: emaballarin

Status

Print the current autoresearch run's state — goal, baseline, noise floor, best-so-far, run tallies, budget, branch, and the last few iterations. Use for `/ar:status`, "how is the loop doing", "what's the best so far", or any read-only check on an autoresearch experiment. Reconstructs everything from `./.ar/ar.jsonl` on disk, so it works in a fresh session with no prior history. Strictly read-only — never iterates, edits, commits, or reverts.

emaballarin 0711c77 2.1 KB Updated Sep 17, 2026

File contents

/ar:status — read-only state

Report where the run stands. Change nothing.

Steps

Read state:
```
cat ./.ar/ar.jsonl 2>/dev/null | tail -50; git branch --show-current
```
No ar.jsonl means no run in this repo — say so, point at /ar:start, stop.
Reconstruct from the last config header and its segment's result lines: run count, keep/discard/crash tallies, best-so-far and its commit, plateau streak, elapsed budget. Method in ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/resume-loop.md §1.

Print the status block:

AR ACTIVE — <goal>
  direction   minimize (val_bpb)
  baseline    0.981    noise floor 0.004 (±1.0×)
  best        0.842    @ a1b2c3d  (run 7)
  runs        23 total — 6 keep · 15 discard · 2 crash
  budget      23/100 runs · 4h12m/8h00m
  branch      ar/reduce-val-bpb-22-07-2026  (from main @ 9f31c07)
  last 3      r21 discard 0.851 · r22 discard 0.849 · r23 keep 0.842 ✓
  plateau     0 consecutive non-improvements

Flag anything anomalous without acting on it: the checked-out branch differing from config.branch, a Result: pending trailer on HEAD (an iteration interrupted mid-measurement), an exhausted budget, or a stopped sentinel.

Hard rules

Read-only. No edits, commits, branch switches, reverts, or iterations — whatever the state looks like. Reporting a problem is the entire job here; fixing it belongs to /ar:resume.
State is read from ./.ar/ only.
Report the numbers as recorded. Never recompute a metric, and never infer one that was not measured.

---name: statusdescription: Print the current autoresearch run's state — goal, baseline, noise floor, best-so-far, run tallies, budget, branch, and the last few iterations. Use for `/ar:status`, "how is the loop doing", "what's the best so far", or any read-only check on an autoresearch experiment. Reconstructs everything from `./.ar/ar.jsonl` on disk, so it works in a fresh session with no prior history. Strictly read-only — never iterates, edits, commits, or reverts.---# /ar:status — read-only stateReport where the run stands. Change nothing.## Steps1. Read state: ```bash cat ./.ar/ar.jsonl 2>/dev/null | tail -50; git branch --show-current ``` No `ar.jsonl` means no run in this repo — say so, point at `/ar:start`, stop.2. Reconstruct from the **last** config header and its segment's result lines: run count, keep/discard/crash tallies, best-so-far and its commit, plateau streak, elapsed budget. Method in `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/resume-loop.md` §1.3. Print the status block: ``` AR ACTIVE — <goal> direction minimize (val_bpb) baseline 0.981 noise floor 0.004 (±1.0×) best 0.842 @ a1b2c3d (run 7) runs 23 total — 6 keep · 15 discard · 2 crash budget 23/100 runs · 4h12m/8h00m branch ar/reduce-val-bpb-22-07-2026 (from main @ 9f31c07) last 3 r21 discard 0.851 · r22 discard 0.849 · r23 keep 0.842 ✓ plateau 0 consecutive non-improvements ```4. Flag anything anomalous without acting on it: the checked-out branch differing from `config.branch`, a `Result: pending` trailer on `HEAD` (an iteration interrupted mid-measurement), an exhausted budget, or a `stopped` sentinel.## Hard rules1. **Read-only.** No edits, commits, branch switches, reverts, or iterations — whatever the state looks like. Reporting a problem is the entire job here; fixing it belongs to `/ar:resume`.2. State is read from `./.ar/` only.3. Report the numbers as recorded. Never recompute a metric, and never infer one that was not measured.

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