diff --git a/bin/pkg-status b/bin/pkg-status
new file mode 120000
index 00000000..6b85d3a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/pkg-status
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../libexec/peek.sh
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/libexec/peek.sh b/libexec/peek.sh
index 2b3297bd..075d19d4 100755
--- a/libexec/peek.sh
+++ b/libexec/peek.sh
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 
 set -e
 
-if ! d=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null); then
-  echo "tea.xyz/brewkit: error: cwd is not a git repo" >&2
+if ! d="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)"; then
+  echo "tea.xyz/brewkit: error: cwd is not inside a git repo" >&2
   exit 1
 fi
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ fi
 
 # sadly we seemingly need to reference origin/main
 DIVERGENCE_SHA="$(git merge-base HEAD origin/main)"
-CHANGED_FILES="$(git diff --name-only "$DIVERGENCE_SHA")"
+CHANGED_FILES="$(git diff --name-only "$DIVERGENCE_SHA") $(git status --untracked-files)"
 
 for CHANGED_FILE in $CHANGED_FILES; do
   PROJECT=$(echo "$CHANGED_FILE" | sed -n 's#projects/\(.*\)/package\.yml$#\1#p')