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+---
+description: Quick status check of your agent infrastructure. Shows agents, skills, hooks, deployment, and recent activity.
+argument-hint: ""
+allowed-tools: ["Read", "Glob", "Grep", "Bash"]
+---
+
+You are running `/agent-factory:status` — a quick health check of your agent infrastructure.
+
+## Scan and report
+
+Run all scans, then output a single compact status report.
+
+### Agents
+Glob for `.claude/agents/*.md`. For each agent file:
+- Read the frontmatter to extract: name, model, tools count
+- List as: `[name] (model: [model], tools: [N])`
+- Flag: agents without `<example>` blocks in description (unreliable triggering)
+
+### Skills
+Glob for `.claude/skills/*/SKILL.md` and `.claude/skills/*.md`. For each:
+- Read frontmatter to extract: name, version (if present)
+- List as: `[name] v[version]`
+- Flag: skills without version field
+
+### Hooks
+Glob for `.claude/hooks/*.sh` and `hooks/*.sh`. For each:
+- Check if executable: `test -x [path]`
+- List as: `[filename] ([executable/not executable])`
+- Flag: hook scripts that are not executable
+
+### Settings
+Read `.claude/settings.json` if it exists:
+- Count permission allow rules and deny rules
+- Count hook configurations
+- Summarize: `[N] allow rules, [M] deny rules, [K] hooks configured`
+
+### Deployment
+Check for:
+- `automation/*.sh` → "Local automation scripts found"
+- `automation/*.plist` → "launchd config found"
+- `automation/*.service` → "systemd config found"
+- `docker-compose.yml` or `Dockerfile` → "Docker config found"
+- `HEARTBEAT.md` → "Heartbeat file found"
+
+### Memory
+Check for:
+- `memory/MEMORY.md` → "Long-term memory: found"
+- `memory/SESSION-STATE.md` → "Session state: found"
+- `memory/*.md` (daily logs) → "Daily logs: [N] files"
+- `data/run-state.json` → "Run state: found"
+
+### Recent activity
+If `.claude/hooks/audit.log` or `hooks/audit.log` exists:
+- Read last 5 lines
+- Display as recent tool call log
+
+### Issues
+Compile all flags from above into an issues list:
+- "WARNING: [agent] has no example blocks — may not trigger reliably"
+- "WARNING: [hook] is not executable — run chmod +x"
+- "WARNING: No hooks configured — unattended runs have no guardrails"
+
+## Output format
+
+```
+AGENT FACTORY STATUS
+====================
+
+Agents:     [N] configured
+Skills:     [N] loaded
+Hooks:      [N] configured ([M] executable)
+Settings:   [allow/deny/hooks counts]
+Deployment: [target or "not configured"]
+Memory:     [tiers found]
+
+Issues: [N]
+[list if any]
+```