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h-status — Read-only project memory

Use the native Pi tool haft_query rather than shelling out manually.

Contract truth: typed neighborhood and recall are V9 CONTRACT capabilities. Source, schema, skill, or local-test presence is not installed-runtime proof and does not establish Pi host parity. A readiness claim requires current EXACT-CANDIDATE EVIDENCE from P14 tied to one exact candidate; RC or release status additionally requires release authority. Pi support is experimental, and contract inclusion or evidence alone does not establish CURRENT PRODUCT status.

If the operator's current question is not about project status, resumption, coverage, or reliance on recorded project state, return without calling this skill. Do not run status after completing unrelated work merely to backfill a governance-looking report.

Start with:

json
{
  "action": "status",
  "full": false
}

If status reports several canonical project scopes, retry the same read-only call with one exact scope_id from the reported available values:

json
{
  "action": "status",
  "full": false,
  "scope_id": "<exact emitted ScopeID>"
}

Choose the scope from the operator's current object or question. Never select the first value, sort the values into a winner, or collapse mixed scopes. If the current use does not identify one scope, report the available ScopeIDs and narrow only that question; unrelated already-authorized Work continues.

Read the output as project evidence:

• overseer drift or stale decisions change what is safe to claim,
• default status is a compact cockpit, not an audit dump; omitted detail is not evidence of absence,
• Unassessed describes evidence maturity (no active evidence or unavailable evidence lookup), not missing predictions; claim counts are separate,
• verify_after is a planned evidence-check date, not a deadline or gate; zero-claim tactical decisions have no scheduled check,
• module coverage may appear only as a one-line cue; call haft_query with

{ "action": "coverage" } for the full module list and bounded exact affected_files link gaps when the code index is current,

• call haft_query with { "action": "contract_generation" } for read-only

generated-fragment carrier hints before editing Pi tool, skill, or prompt wording,

• call haft_query with { "action": "drift_events", "limit": 5 },

{ "action": "decision_reconcile", "limit": 5 }, or { "action": "governing_set", "limit": 5 } for compact drift fanout, reconciliation, and current-authority drill-downs; add "full": true only for full audit payloads,

• call haft_query with { "action": "status", "full": true } when you need

detailed decision/problem/note status,

• call haft_query with { "action": "drift_events", "full": true } for

complete currently recorded drift fanout,

• call haft_query with { "action": "decision_reconcile", "full": true }

for a read-only reconciliation audit,

• chat summaries are not durable project memory unless a receiving use warranted an artifact.
• read-only/generated text is discovery only; it is not evidence truth, gate passage, global approval, or operator authorization.

Coverage reads stored module data and the current derived code index. If the code index is uninitialized, stale, or degraded, report the file-gap projection as unavailable rather than empty-clean; do not trigger a rescan from h-status. A missing exact affected_files link is not proof that a file is undocumented, unconstrained, or incorrect.

For an exact current EntityOfConcern and bounded context, call memory neighborhood under haft.memory.v1, project_current, agent_orientation.v2, explicit facets, and a dimensioned budget. Read snapshot/projection basis, interpretation_contract, facet coverage, item semantic/lifecycle/evidence/projection postures, and applied_budget. Only complete supports known emptiness at that exact basis. Read affordances may hydrate more basis but never choose a skill or next action. Resolve aliases before neighborhood; recall only inside the resolved scope. Do not merge retry_required stale reads with current facts or turn abstained into empty memory.

Cockpit items are attention, not project-wide human gates. Continue unrelated already-authorized Work. Interrupt only an operation that would mutate the affected binding or authority, cross an explicit human lifecycle gate, or rely on unresolved contradictory binding content. Never ask for bare approval to acknowledge status, evidence, historicity, or cleanup.

When status exposes a real gate, inspect its referenced read-only basis instead of repeating the label. Give a self-contained Human Gate Brief with the gate kind, readable subject, affected operation and blocker; all real current options; each option's changes, non-changes, consequence or return condition, and weakest link; any existing comparison/parity basis, selection policy, and non-dominated or Pareto set, or an explicit statement that none exists or applies; the advisory recommendation; freshness or expiry; and a question asking for the human engineer's assessment of the options, trade-offs, and recommendation in natural language. IDs and hashes never replace readable meaning. Accept ordinary language as the substantive answer. When one current brief makes effect, subject, option, and scope unambiguous, the host may route it for DecisionRecord binding, manual profile application, or a later non-default project-memory model change as host_routed_operator_request, without a skill name or second confirmation. It is not reusable authority; a bare yes or да works only for that one current brief. h-commission remains a separately manual authority act. The brief itself is explanation rather than authority. If the basis cannot supply the details, report that the gate is not yet askable and name the needed drill-down.

Use coverage and related drill-downs for module/file decision coverage. Do not mutate artifacts, infer a project phase, or prescribe a universal next step. Binding decisions require a direct operator request; commissions remain explicit manual actions.