Status Update

Give the user an accurate control-panel view of the work, not a transcript. Default to a quick update that is easy to scan and easy to drill into by selecting any bold label.

Read the request

Arguments are [detailed] [scope to report on], and the user's own words carry the same meaning ("give me the detail", "just the deploy work"). A detailed token, or an equivalent ask for depth, selects the expanded report in Expand only on request; anything else is the scope. With no argument and no stated scope, write the quick update for the whole task.

Establish current truth

Treat a status request as read-only. Do not interrupt workers, edit files, restart commands, deploy, or otherwise alter the task merely to report it.