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Read project status
A connected Claude can answer "where does this stand" without you opening Work. Ask it plainly, or use the project_status prompt. To pair a Claude, see Connect Claude.
Status is a read of the subject. The record of the tools an agent called shows who looked. It does not show where the work stands.
Which read answers which question
| Ask | The agent reads |
|---|---|
| Everything open, at once | meet://board/<days>: every open subject with its open tasks and issues, plus what finished in the last <days> (1 to 90) |
| One subject | search, then open on that row's door: recent interactions, open tasks, open issues |
| One subject, with goals | meet://subject/<kind>/<id>, where kind is lead, project, partner or event |
| What changed lately | meet://feed/<limit>: interactions, newest first, 1 to 100 |
| Which subjects are busy | meet://subjects/<kind>: open-task counts and last activity |
| Today | now: people around, the next 24 hours, your tasks and issues, quick notes |
| A meeting's transcript | transcript, on a meeting link from an interaction |
The brief prompt makes the one-subject read for you. The prep_next_meeting prompt makes the read before a call.
The six stages
A stage is one of queued, doing, review, blocked, done, dropped.
No other stage exists. Starlings computes the stage from the row and never stores
it. "In progress" and "waiting" are the agent's words, not stages. An open
issue with no agent:* label is queued. This does not mean that anyone
has started.
What a status read does not do
- It does not write.
task,record_decisionandset_goalchange the thing you asked about. A Claude answering a status question should ask before touching any of them. - It does not post to Talk. Reads leave no line in a subject's Talk. Only writes do.
- It is not the call record. Every read adds a row that you can see under Settings → Account → Connected Claudes. That row shows that the agent looked. It does not answer the status question.
Where it works
| Capability | macOS Host | macOS Join | Web | iOS / iPadOS | Agent access |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Projects and leads, with their tasks and issues | Works | Works | Works | Works | search (MCP), open (MCP), task (MCP), record_decision (MCP), set_goal (MCP), meet://subject/{kind}/{id}, meet://subjects/{kind}, meet://board/{days}, /api/crm/tasks, /api/crm/mine, /api/crm/recently-closed, /api/crm/unowned, /api/crm/goals, /api/crm/decisions, /api/crm/subjects, /api/crm/organizations |
| Issues that read like GitHub's own | Works | Works | Partial | Works | create_issue (MCP), /api/crm/issue |
| Interaction history on a project or lead | Works | Works | Works | Works | meet://feed/{limit}, /api/crm/feed |
| An agent starts a meetingHave | Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available | start_meeting (MCP), schedule (MCP), meetctl host |
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