Hat	Stage	Upstream gate	Output
Cross-cutting	Status	None (read-only)	Terminal report (no file writes)

When to Use

• Start of a workbench session — orient before deciding next action.
• Before dispatching ralph — confirm upstream gates are green.
• After long-running dispatch — see which repos landed and which did not.

Prerequisites

• Workbench initialised — EPIC-PIPELINE.md exists, .workbench-state/approved.json exists (empty is fine).
• project.conf sourced (REPOS list).

Reads in Parallel (Never Infers)

1. EPIC-PIPELINE.md
2. .workbench-state/approved.json
3. .workbench-state/published.json
4. .workbench-state/rejected.json
5. Directory listings — product/outputs/prds/, engineering/outputs/{specs,tdds,adrs,erd}/, qa/outputs/{bdd,test-cases,test-specs}/, design/outputs/{screens,handoffs}/.
6. Per repo — repos/{repo}/.ralph/fix_plan.md, ralph/{repo}.pid, ralph/logs/{repo}.log last line.

Output Format (Verbatim)

# Workbench status — {today}

## Epics
| Epic | Context | PRDs (draft/published/approved) | Next action |

## PRDs
| PRD | Title | Stage | Spec | TDD | BDD | Test-cases | Design | Exec |

Legend: ✓ approved, ~ published/awaiting-approval, · draft, — none

## Engineering
| Artifact | Count draft | Count published | Count approved |

## QA
| Artifact | Count draft | Count published | Count approved |

## Ralph per repo
| Repo | fix_plan? | Lines | Dispatch state | Last log line |

## Blockers
- {artifact id} — {what's blocking} — {owner}

## Next 3 actions
1. {specific command or file edit — not a vague TODO}

Stage Resolution

Rule	Stage
Appears in approved.json	approved
Else in published.json	published
Else file exists with status: draft	draft
Else	missing

Dispatch State

idle (no pidfile) · running (pidfile + live PID) · stale (pidfile, PID gone) · done (log ends exit code 0) · failed (non-zero).

Do Not

• Infer approved from existence of a file. .workbench-state/approved.json is the only gate.
• Stall on a missing repo checkout — render fix_plan?: ✗ (not cloned) and move on.
• Compute cell counts > 50 without truncating. Show 50+ and link to directory.

Source

skills/pmo-status/SKILL.md