journal-add

journal-add is a command for Claude Code from chrismbryant/claude-journal-mcp. It costs 0 tokens per session (374 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for saving a new journal entry with a title, description, optional project, and optional tags.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to log features, bug fixes, refactors, technologies used, and other engineering work.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to record completed work instead of relying on memory or scattered notes.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the claude-journal plugin — 3 skills, 6 commands, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to log features, bug fixes, refactors, technologies used, and other engineering work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/chrismbryant/claude-journal-mcp/journal-add
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/chrismbryant/claude-journal-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-journal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 6 commands, 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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 374 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 $0.00000 $0.00374
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00187
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00037

Measured 11d ago against content hash d3c53b786432, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

journal-add 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 11d 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.

commands/journal-add.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Add Journal Entry

You are helping the user add a journal entry.

Process

  1. Gather information:

    • Title (required): Ask for a brief title
    • Description (required): Ask for 1-2 sentence description
    • Project (optional): Ask if this is related to a specific project/repo
      • If user is in a git repo, suggest using the repo name
      • If not specified, can be left empty
    • Tags (optional): Suggest relevant tags based on the content
      • Technical terms mentioned
      • Type of work (feature, bugfix, refactor, etc.)
      • Technologies used
  2. Use the MCP tool: Call journal_add with the gathered information:

    journal_add(
      title="User's title",
      description="User's description",
      project="project-name" (if provided),
      tags=["tag1", "tag2"] (if provided)
    )
    
  3. Confirm success: Tell the user their entry was saved and show the ID for reference.

Examples

Example 1: Simple entry

  • Title: "Implemented OAuth login"
  • Description: "Built OAuth2 flow with JWT tokens for user authentication"
  • Project: "my-app"
  • Tags: ["auth", "oauth", "backend"]

Example 2: Bug fix

  • Title: "Fixed memory leak in cache"
  • Description: "Cache wasn't clearing old entries, causing gradual memory growth"
  • Tags: ["bugfix", "performance", "cache"]

Tips

  • Suggest concise titles (3-7 words)
  • Descriptions should be complete sentences
  • Tags help with searching later
  • Project name helps organize multi-repo work
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. 11d ago First seen · 51 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d3c53b786432

Subscribe to this mod's changes

journal-add is a command published in the GitHub repository chrismbryant/claude-journal-mcp (6 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 374 tokens. 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.