git:20260916.01a0b9d to git:20260923.e805728

3 added, 5 removed. Audit A to A.

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name: status

- description: Use when someone needs to know where a Kraft work item has got to, or

- when a handed-off item should be watched until it finishes - the phase it is in, the

- node coming next, any gate it is waiting on, and a follow that ends by itself.

+ description: "Use when someone asks where a Kraft work item has got to, or wants a handed-off item watched until it finishes."

---

Kraft's tools come from the `kraft` MCP server. If `kraft` is not on PATH, this

plugin has been installed without the program it drives: say so and point at

https://github.com/itsOmidKarami/kraft#install rather than reporting a

connection error.

# Where a Kraft work item has got to

## The phase line

```bash

- kraft show ID --json | jq -r '

+ kraft view show ID --json | jq -r '

"\(.status): \(.current_node_id) → next \(.next_node_id // "done")" +

(if .pending_gate then " · gate \(.pending_gate)" else "" end)

```

One line: the status, the node running now, the node coming next, and the gate

it is waiting on if there is one. `next_node_id` is null on the last node of the

chain, which renders as `done`; on an item nobody has started yet it is node

zero, because that is what starting it will run.

Drop the id to ask about the work item you are standing in: `kraft view show --json`

resolves it from the worktree.

## Watching it until it ends

Arm a monitor on:

```bash

- kraft events ID -f

+ kraft view events ID -f

```

Do not pass `--type`. `-f` ends itself on `work_item_completed` or

`work_item_abandoned`, so the monitor disarms on its own; a type filter would go

silent through exactly the escalation the person needs to hear about. A chain

emits tens of events over its life, not thousands.

`--json` makes that stream NDJSON, one object per line.

## What to report

Say the phase and the next node. If a gate is pending, say which one and that it

is waiting on a person - a work item sitting at a gate is not stuck, and calling

it stuck sends someone looking for a fault that is not there.