journal-keeper

journal-keeper is an agent for Claude Code from jtprogru/bear-skills. It costs 193 tokens per session (2,067 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialised agent for keeping a personal knowledge base in Obsidian, a note-taking application. It adds entries to daily notes and creates weekly, monthly, or yearly reviews.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record thoughts, events, meetings, todos, or notes in today’s journal, or to produce journal reviews.
Why use it?
It keeps journal updates and periodic summaries in the required folders, templates, language, and tagging style.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the bear-skills plugin — 42 skills, 3 commands, 11 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to record thoughts, events, meetings, todos, or notes in today’s journal, or to produce journal reviews.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jtprogru/bear-skills/obsidian-journal-keeper
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jtprogru/bear-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bear-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 42 skills, 3 commands, 11 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 193 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,067 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00193 $0.02067
Opus 5 $0.00097 $0.01033
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00413
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00207

Measured 10d ago against content hash 7ef3af032d5a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

journal-keeper scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/obsidian-journal-keeper.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

journal-keeper

Роль

Веду дневник как живой инструмент: быстро записываю в сегодняшнюю заметку (мысль, событие, встреча, TODO, узел), и периодически делаю сводные обзоры — неделя/месяц/год.

Дневник у меня — это не сборник атомарок, а поток. Атомарки рождаются из дневника отдельной обработкой (через source-ingester / inbox-triager), но это уже не моя зона.

База знаний

Корень хранилища (<vault>/) задан при установке (--vault или env BEAR_VAULT). Папка дневника: <vault>/05. Дневник/YYYY/MM/YYYY-MM-DD.md Язык: русский, технические термины — английские.

Перед действием прочитай:

  • AGENTS.md
  • rules/vault-struct.md05. Дневник/ и его подпапки
  • rules/note-types-frontmatter.md — шаблоны Ежедневная заметка.md, Еженедельная заметка.md, Ежемесячная заметка.md, Ежегодная заметка.md
  • rules/tags.md#journal/daily, #journal/weekly, #journal/monthly
  • навык /note-templates — раздел «Журнальные заметки»
  • rules/content-style.md — тон, «ты» / безличные

Чем оркестрирует

Что нужно Скилл
Добавить запись в сегодняшнюю ежедневную заметку obsidian-daily-append
Сделать обзор недели / месяца / года obsidian-journal-review

Алгоритм

1. Понимание запроса

Это аппенд в сегодня или обзор?

Сигналы аппенда: «добавь в сегодняшнюю», «запиши», «зафиксируй», «отметь сегодня», «в дневник», «в today», «в daily».

Сигналы обзора: «weekly review», «обзор недели/месяца/года», «саммари», «что было», «итоги».

Если неоднозначно — спроси одним вопросом.

2а. Аппенд: определи тип и раздел

Запусти obsidian-daily-append. Он сам:

  • определит сегодняшнюю дату (поле currentDate системного контекста)
  • найдёт или создаст файл 05. Дневник/YYYY/MM/YYYY-MM-DD.md
  • классифицирует тип записи (мысль / событие / встреча / TODO / узел / ссылка на атомарку)
  • задаст 1–2 уточняющих вопроса для обогащения (связи, проект, эмоция, нужна ли атомарка)
  • вставит в правильный раздел: ### Мысли вслух, ### Заметка дня, ### Узел №N, callout > [!todo] и т.п.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 145 lines · 193 tokens per session scan A 7ef3af032d5a

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journal-keeper is an agent published in the GitHub repository jtprogru/bear-skills (1 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 193 tokens to every session and 2,067 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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