ca-status
Show the project's current state at a glance — stage, open tasks, open questions, overrides since the last checkpoint, current branch. Read-only.
npx skills add arbiterForge/codeArbiter --skill ca-status --agent codex
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for claude-code, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# $ca-status — state snapshot A read-only summary of `.codearbiter/` state. No skill is routed to; no file is modified. ## Flow The orchestrator reads and presents: 1. **Stage** — the `stage:` maturity value from `<project-root>/.codearbiter/CONTEXT.md` frontmatter. 2. **Pipelines** — every slug in `<project-root>/.codearbiter/specs/` and `plans/`, with how far each got: spec awaiting approval, spec approved / no plan, plan in progress (`ACCEPTED` count vs. total from the plan's status column), or complete. An interrupted pipeline is resumable via `$ca-feature` — say so on its line. 3. **Open tasks** — the in-flight count from `<project-root>/.codearbiter/open-tasks.md` (top-level `- ` bullets excluding done `- [x]`; the same `_taskboardlib` count the SessionStart hook uses). 4. **Open questions** — the count of unresolved `[CONFIRM-NN]` placeholders in `<project-root>/.codearbiter/open-questions.md`. 5. **Overrides since last checkpoint** — entries in `<project-root>/.codearbiter/overrides.log` newer than the marker in `<project-root>/.codearbiter/last-checkpoint`. 6. **Current branch** — from git. ## Output ``` ## Project status — YYYY-MM-DD Stage: N Branch: <current branch> Pipe
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- When NOT to use
- Hard gate
What does the ca-status skill do?
Show the project's current state at a glance — stage, open tasks, open questions, overrides since the last checkpoint, current branch. Read-only.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add arbiterForge/codeArbiter --skill ca-status --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From arbiterForge/codeArbiter, a repository with 138 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.