Official agent skill

Status

by aws-samples in aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents

Check ABCA platform status — stack health, running tasks, and recent task history.

OfficialMIT-0Auto-check: notesDevOps & Cloud

Install Status

skills CLI

$ npx skills add aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents --skill status -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents status --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/docs/abca-plugin/skills/status .claude/skills/status && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "status" agent skill from https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents/tree/main/docs/abca-plugin/skills/status into .claude/skills/status/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "status", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents/tree/main/docs/abca-plugin/skills/status

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents --skill status -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents status --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/docs/abca-plugin/skills/status .agents/skills/status && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "status" agent skill from https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents/tree/main/docs/abca-plugin/skills/status into .agents/skills/status/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "status", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents --skill status -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents status --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/docs/abca-plugin/skills/status .cursor/skills/status && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "status" agent skill from https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents/tree/main/docs/abca-plugin/skills/status into .cursor/skills/status/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "status", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents.git --path docs/abca-plugin/skills/status

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents --skill status -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents status --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/docs/abca-plugin/skills/status .gemini/skills/status && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "status" agent skill from https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents/tree/main/docs/abca-plugin/skills/status into .gemini/skills/status/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "status", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents status

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents --skill status -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/docs/abca-plugin/skills/status .github/skills/status && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "status" agent skill from https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents/tree/main/docs/abca-plugin/skills/status into .github/skills/status/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "status", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents --skill status -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents status --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/docs/abca-plugin/skills/status .opencode/skills/status && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "status" agent skill from https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents/tree/main/docs/abca-plugin/skills/status into .opencode/skills/status/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "status", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: status
GitHub stars: 157
Token cost: ~438 tokens
SKILL.md length: 99 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 6
Repo updated: Oct 7, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: MIT-0

At a glance

Check ABCA platform status — stack health, running tasks, and recent task history.

Works in 4 steps: Stack status → Running tasks → Recent completed tasks → …
The user says status
SKILL.md covers Checks to Run and Output Format
Calls node, mise and aws

What it does

Status is an agent skill from aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Check ABCA platform status — stack health, running tasks, and recent task history. Use when the user says "status", "health check", "is ABCA running", "check platform", or "what's the state".

Its SKILL.md is about 440 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in DevOps & Cloud. It works with Amazon Web Services. The repository describes itself as: Autonomous background coding agents on AWS. Turn tasks into pull requests via isolated runtimes, with built-in orchestration, observability, and governance. The licence is MIT-0.

When your agent uses it

The user says status
Is ABCA running
Whats the state

Example prompts

“status”
“health check”
“is ABCA running”
“/status”

Requirements

Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash, Read

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

Stack status
Running tasks
Recent completed tasks
Local build health

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cd9bc54. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

Tool permissions
Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:
- Bash
- Read
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
- node
- mise
- aws
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use aws, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Status loads about 438 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 50 tokens; SKILL.md has 99 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~50
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~438

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check: notes

The automated check noted patterns worth knowing about, such as sudo or a known installer.

NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md
```
allowed-tools: Bash, Read
```

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents at commit cd9bc54, republished under its MIT-0 licence (© aws-samples). 99 words, ~438 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/status/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).

name: status
description: Check ABCA platform status — stack health, running tasks, and recent task history. Use when the user says "status", "health check", "is ABCA running", "check platform", or "what's the state".
allowed-tools: Bash, Read

ABCA Platform Status

Check the current state of the ABCA platform and report a concise status summary.

Running the CLI: the node cli/lib/bin/bgagent.js … checks below need node on PATH; in a non-interactive or mise-managed shell, prefix with mise exec --.

Checks to Run

Run these in parallel where possible:

Stack status:

bash

aws cloudformation describe-stacks --stack-name backgroundagent-dev \
  --query 'Stacks[0].{Status:StackStatus,Updated:LastUpdatedTime}' --output json 2>&1 || echo "Stack not found"

Running tasks:

bash

node cli/lib/bin/bgagent.js list --status RUNNING,SUBMITTED,HYDRATING --output json 2>&1 || echo "CLI not configured"

Recent completed tasks:

bash

node cli/lib/bin/bgagent.js list --limit 5 --output json 2>&1 || echo "CLI not configured"

Local build health:

bash

export MISE_EXPERIMENTAL=1 && mise //cdk:compile 2>&1 | tail -5

Output Format

Present a concise status report:

ABCA Platform Status
====================
Stack:    [UPDATE_COMPLETE | CREATE_COMPLETE | ...]
Updated:  [timestamp]
Active:   [N] tasks running
Recent:   [N] tasks in last batch (show status breakdown)
Build:    [PASS | FAIL with error summary]

If the CLI isn't configured, note this and suggest running the setup skill.

Tip: For real-time streaming of a specific task's progress, suggest bgagent watch <TASK_ID> instead of polling status.

Files

Just SKILL.md in docs/abca-plugin/skills/status of aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cd9bc54

Compare with similar skills

Status next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Cloud Cost Optimizationwshobson/agents	40k	13 repos	~1.7k	Automated safety check: Pass	MIT	2 days ago
AWS Cdk Developmentzxkane/aws-skills	367	2 repos	~2.5k	Automated safety check: Pass	MIT	3 mo ago
Senior DevOps Toolkitmaslennikov-ig/claude-code-orchestrator-kit	259	6 repos	~1.1k	Automated safety check: Notes	Custom licence	7 mo ago
Terravision Cloud Diagramspatrickchugh/terravision	1.6k	—	~5.6k	Automated safety check: Notes	AGPL-3.0-only	yesterday
Setup Osworldxlang-ai/OSWorld-V2	351	1 repos	~2.6k	Automated safety check: Notes	Apache-2.0	6 days ago

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Questions about Status

What does Status do?

Check ABCA platform status — stack health, running tasks, and recent task history. Status is an agent skill from aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Check ABCA platform status — stack health, running tasks, and recent task history.

When should I use Status?

Status fits situations like: the user says status; is ABCA running; whats the state.

How do I install Status in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents --skill status -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (docs/abca-plugin/skills/status in aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents) into .claude/skills/status in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Status in Codex?

Run `npx skills add aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents --skill status -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (docs/abca-plugin/skills/status in aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents) into .agents/skills/status in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Status in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents --skill status -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/status, .gemini/skills/status, .github/skills/status and .opencode/skills/status in your project.

What does Status need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Status needs the command-line tools its instructions call (node, mise and aws). Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Bash, Read.

Does Status access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Status safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found notes only (pre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: bash)), nothing it rates as a warning. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Status use?

Status is published under the MIT-0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Status use?

About 438 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Status?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Status: Cloud Cost Optimization (wshobson/agents, 40k stars), AWS Cdk Development (zxkane/aws-skills, 367 stars), Senior DevOps Toolkit (maslennikov-ig/claude-code-orchestrator-kit, 259 stars) and Terravision Cloud Diagrams (patrickchugh/terravision, 1.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Status?

aws-samples (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents, which has 157 GitHub stars. The repository holds 6 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: aws-samples/sample-autonomous-cloud-coding-agents on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Status

Install Status

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Requirements

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

ABCA Platform Status

Checks to Run

Output Format

Files

Compare with similar skills

Similar skills

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AWS Cdk Development

Senior DevOps Toolkit

Terravision Cloud Diagrams

Setup Osworld

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Questions about Status

Install Status

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Requirements

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

ABCA Platform Status

Checks to Run

Output Format

Files

Compare with similar skills

Similar skills

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