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progress-check is agent-read markdown (skill) from tjcages/skills: Give sparse, evidence-based progress updates for long-running agent tasks and projects. Use when work will take more than 15 minutes, spans multiple milestones, involves delegated agents, or when the user asks for progress bars, status cadence, fewer updates, or a global cross-agent progress rule. Not for short answers or tasks with no meaningful intermediate state..

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What the file says

# Progress Check

Full method: [METHODOLOGY.md](./METHODOLOGY.md). Chat shape:
[RESPONSE.md](./RESPONSE.md). Examples: [EXAMPLES.md](./EXAMPLES.md).

## Choose the mode

- **Report progress:** default for qualifying long-running work.
- **Install globally:** only when the user asks to persist this behavior across
  agents or projects.

## Report progress

1. Define a small set of observable milestones before estimating a percentage.
   Weight by work and risk, not elapsed time.
2. Send one baseline update after scope is understood.
3. Send a routine update only when at least 30 minutes have passed **and** one
   of these is true: a milestone completed, verified progress rose by at least
   10 percentage points, or the next action materially changed.
4. Report a new blocker immediately when the user can act on it. Report
   completion immediately.
5. Never repeat an unchanged bar or send a routine “still working” message.

Keep each update to at most three short items: completed evidence, current
work, and next step or blocker. End with exactly one overall bar styled as
inline code on its own line:

`Performance rollout  [██████████████████░░] 90%`
…

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Source

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tjcages/skills · 4 stars · license none · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main

API

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