# chainctl skills status

URL: https://chainguard-docs-preview-git-create-pull-request-patch.chainguard.app/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_skills_status.md
Last Modified: October 7, 2026
Tags: chainctl, Reference, Product

 chainctl skills status Check a harden job or wait for it to finish.
Synopsis Check the job ID printed by skills harden without uploading or submitting the skill again. Progress names the pipeline stage once the job is running. –wait tracks the job to completion and downloads the hardened skill and report to ./hardened/NAME, with .hardened-artifact.json recording the published reference and digest. A timeout or interrupt leaves the job running. A skill the post-hardening scan rejected downloads unmodified to ./unhardened/NAME and exits nonzero, naming the scanner and rule that rejected it. Other failures exit nonzero and name the stage the job failed in.
chainctl skills status --group <org> --id <job-id> [flags] Examples chainctl skills status --group my-org --id <job-id> chainctl skills status --group my-org --id <job-id> --wait --timeout 30m Options -g, --group string Target organization name or UIDP (required). --id string Harden job ID (required). --timeout duration Maximum command duration with --wait (0 means no timeout). --wait Wait for hardening to finish and download the result. Options inherited from parent commands --api string The url of the Chainguard platform API. (default "https://console-api.enforce.dev") --audience string The Chainguard token audience to request. (default "https://console-api.enforce.dev") --config string A specific chainctl config file. Uses CHAINCTL_CONFIG environment variable if a file is not passed explicitly. --console string The url of the Chainguard platform Console. (default "https://console.chainguard.dev") --force-color Force color output even when stdout is not a TTY. -h, --help Help for chainctl --issuer string The url of the Chainguard STS endpoint. (default "https://issuer.enforce.dev") --log-level string Set the log level (debug, info) (default "ERROR") -o, --output string Output format. One of: [csv, env, go-template, id, json, markdown, none, table, terse, tree, wide] -v, --v int Set the log verbosity level. SEE ALSO chainctl skills	- Skills registry related commands.