I have my zsh set up so that if I just press Enter without writing anything it will run ls -l or git status if it's a git directory.
It's actually a oh-my-zsh plugin, called "magic-enter".
I defined MAGIC_ENTER_GIT_COMMAND="git status" and then included the plugin.
You can find a different but similar plugin here: https://github.com/zshzoo/magic-enter/blob/main/magic-enter....