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---
name: peeking-work
description: Use to read a dispatched task's progress when asked or when evidence disagrees with its recorded state.
---
## Read progress
- Resolve one canonical instruction from the task, plan, or session identity using [peek mechanics](references/peek-mechanics.md). Ask when several instructions match.
+ Resolve one canonical instruction from the task, plan, or session identity using [peek mechanics](references/peek-mechanics.md).
+ Ask when several instructions match.
- Read its status and the recent entries of its sibling `.progress.jsonl` first. If these answer the question, report that result. Otherwise use the reference's read-only `herdr agent read` command.
+ Read its status and the recent entries of its sibling `.progress.jsonl` first.
+ If these answer the question, report that result.
+ Otherwise use the reference's read-only `herdr agent read` command.
- Summarize current activity and any evidence/status discrepancy. Checkpoint resolution returns to [dispatching-work](../dispatching-work/SKILL.md#handle-events).
+ Summarize current activity and any evidence/status discrepancy.
+ Checkpoint resolution returns to [dispatching-work](../dispatching-work/SKILL.md#handle-events).
**Complete when:** the caller has an evidence-backed progress answer or the specific reason the dispatch cannot be read.