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+name: status-matrix
+description: >
+  Print one matrix of everything currently in flight: open and closed tasks,
+  running workflows and background jobs, plus confidence and break risk per
+  item. Trigger on /status-matrix, "status", "übersicht", "wo stehen wir", or
+  whenever the operator asks what is done, what is left, or what is still
+  running. Portable across projects.
+---
+
+One-shot overview, no side effects: this skill reads state and reports it. It
+never edits files, stages, commits, deploys, or starts work — the operator
+decides what to act on after reading the matrix.
+
+## Collect the state
+
+Gather in parallel, skip any source the session does not have, and never invent
+a row for a source you could not read:
+
+1. **Tasks** — the session's todo list, the operator's stated goals this
+   session, and any requirement or plan documents the work follows.
+2. **Working tree** — `git status --short` and `git log --oneline -10`:
+   uncommitted files are open work, commits since the branch point are closed
+   work. Untracked files count as open.
+3. **Running** — background bash jobs, spawned agents not yet reported,
+   scheduled `/loop` wake-ups, and remote runs (CI, deploys). Poll their live
+   state; a job you started is not "running" because you started it.
+4. **Remote** — open PRs and issues for the branch, and their check
+   conclusions, when a forge CLI is available.
+
+## The matrix
+
+One table, most-blocking first, one row per item:
+
+| Item | State | Conf. | Break risk | Evidence / next step |
+
+- **State**: `open`, `running`, `blocked`, `done`. `done` means verified —
+  a passing run, a green check, a reproduction that now succeeds. Work that
+  merely looks finished is `open`.
+- **Conf.** and **Break risk**: two separate percentages per the `confidence`
+  skill — probability the item does what it claims, and probability it breaks
+  something else. Only for rows that changed something; `—` for pure
+  observation rows.
+- **Evidence / next step**: for `done`, the strongest proof line (what ran,
+  what it returned). For everything else, the single next action.
+
+Then at most three lines below the table:
+
+- **Blocked on**: what needs the operator (a decision, a credential, an
+  approval) — omit when nothing does.
+- **Residuals**: what keeps the lowest confidence number below 100.
+- **Running**: what will report back on its own, so the operator does not wait
+  on it manually.
+
+## Rules
+
+- Cover everything in scope, including work the operator did not ask about —
+  a forgotten background job or an unpushed commit is exactly what the matrix
+  exists to surface.
+- Report what the poll returned, never a predicted result for work still in
+  flight; a running item has no confidence number yet.
+- Compress: one row per item, no per-item paragraphs. If a row needs
+  explaining, the operator will ask.