Status

Print the current task state so the human knows exactly where they are and what's next — without reading four directories themselves.

What this skill reads

• .claude/sdlc/plans/ — active plan and whether it has a signed gate
• .claude/sdlc/gates/ — active gate, which phase it covers, whether it is signed
• .claude/sdlc/sign-offs/ — which sign-off files have landed (if any)

This skill writes nothing. It never modifies any artifact.

Step 1 — Identify the active plan

Scan .claude/sdlc/plans/*.md, excluding versioned files (*.v1.md, *.v2.md, etc. — any file matching *.v[0-9]*.md). Versioned files are superseded archives; the active plan is always the unversioned <slug>.md file.

If the directory is absent or no non-versioned files exist, print:

No active task found.
Next: run /start or /plan to begin a task.

and stop.

If multiple non-versioned plan files exist, use the most recently modified one.

Step 2 — Identify the active gate

Scan .claude/sdlc/gates/*.md. Gate filenames follow the pattern <phase>-<task-slug>.md.

Map phase names to order: plan=1, analyze=2, design=3, build=4, test=5, deploy=6, support=7. Select the gate with the highest phase number. Break ties by taking the most recently modified file.

A gate is signed if its content contains a non-empty Signed at: field. A gate is unsigned if that field is absent, blank, or holds a placeholder.

If no gates exist yet, the active gate is "none" — the plan has been drafted but not yet signed.

Step 3 — Determine sign-off state

Sign-off rendering applies only when all three conditions hold:

1. An active, signed gate exists.
2. That gate contains a ## Required sign-offs block (a markdown list of role names).
3. .claude/sdlc/sign-offs/ exists as a directory.

If any condition is unmet, skip the sign-off line entirely.

Extract required roles — parse the ## Required sign-offs block as a markdown bullet list. Each item is a role name (e.g. security, product, compliance).

Extract REQ-ID — find the first REQ-\d+ token in the gate file's Work-item reference: field (e.g. Work-item reference: https://…/REQ-042 or no ticket REQ-042). If no token is found, skip the sign-off line and append to the Next line:

(add a REQ-ID to Work-item reference to enable sign-off tracking)

Check presence — for each required role, check whether .claude/sdlc/sign-offs/<REQ-ID>-<role>.md exists. Ignore .queue/ sidecars; they are transport state, not filed sign-offs.

Step 4 — Render

Print the status block. Omit any line whose data is unavailable.

Plan:      <task-slug> (<signed | unsigned>)
Gate:      <phase>-<task-slug> (<signed | unsigned — awaiting sign-offs | none>)
Sign-offs: <role> ✓ | <role> ✓ | <role> □
Next:      <one-line action>

Next line content by state:

State	Next line
No plan	run /start or /plan to begin a task
Plan exists, no gate	run /<current-phase-command> to produce the gate artifact
Gate unsigned, no sign-offs block	sign the gate in .claude/sdlc/gates/<gate-file>.md
Gate unsigned, sign-offs pending	await <missing-roles> sign-off, or /help sign-offs for the file format
Gate signed, all sign-offs present	advance to the next phase — run /<next-phase-command>
Gate signed, no sign-offs block	advance to the next phase — run /<next-phase-command>

Use the phase order (plan→analyze→design→build→test→deploy→support) to determine current and next phase commands.

Step 5 — Graceful degradation

Missing resource	Behavior
.claude/sdlc/plans/ absent or empty	Print "No active task found." and stop
.claude/sdlc/gates/ absent or empty	Omit Gate and Sign-offs lines; Next = produce gate
.claude/sdlc/sign-offs/ absent	Omit Sign-offs line silently
## Required sign-offs absent from gate	Omit Sign-offs line silently
No REQ-\d+ in Work-item reference	Omit Sign-offs line; append note to Next line

Never error out. If a directory or file is unreadable, omit the corresponding line and continue.

Example output

Single-signer, gate unsigned:

Plan:  auth-refresh (signed)
Gate:  design-auth-refresh (unsigned)
Next:  sign the gate in .claude/sdlc/gates/design-auth-refresh.md

Multi-team, sign-offs pending:

Plan:      auth-refresh (signed)
Gate:      design-auth-refresh (signed)
Sign-offs: security ✓ | product ✓ | compliance □
Next:      await compliance sign-off, or /help sign-offs for the file format

All clear:

Plan:      auth-refresh (signed)
Gate:      design-auth-refresh (signed)
Sign-offs: security ✓ | product ✓ | compliance ✓
Next:      advance to build — run /build

No task in flight:

No active task found.
Next:      run /start or /plan to begin a task

References

• docs/rfcs/multi-team-approval.md §3.1–3.2 — sign-off file contract and gate-file ## Required sign-offs block
• templates/gate.md — gate file shape this skill reads
• hooks/approval-reconcile.sh — the hook that enforces sign-off presence at phase-advance time

Next step hint

After printing the status snapshot, pipe the next_suggestions conditions to skills/_shared/next-hint.sh and print any output:

printf '%s\n' \
  'no_active_work|run /start to begin a new task, or /plan if you already know what to build' \
  'pending_signoff_for_current_user|write your sign-off at sign-offs/<REQ-ID>-<role>.md' \
  'plan_drafted_and_unsigned|sign the plan gate to unlock /analyze' \
  'phase_active_gate_unsigned|continue with the active phase commands, or sign the gate when ready' \
  'analyze_gate_signed|run /design' \
  'design_gate_signed|run /build' \
  'build_gate_signed|run /test' \
  'test_gate_signed|run /deploy' \
  'deploy_gate_signed|run /support, then /docs' \
  | bash skills/_shared/next-hint.sh

Print any output verbatim. If the script outputs nothing, add nothing.