journal-recent

journal-recent is a command for Claude Code from chrismbryant/claude-journal-mcp. It costs 0 tokens per session (441 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for viewing recent entries in a work journal. A work journal is a record of what you did, when, and on which project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list recent work, review entries from a project, or catch up on yesterday’s tasks.
Why use it?
It helps restore recent context when you have forgotten what you were working on or cleared a conversation.

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 list recent work, review entries from a project, or catch up on yesterday’s tasks.

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

Getting it into your agent

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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.

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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 441 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 $0.00441
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00220
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00044

Measured 12d ago against content hash 268a5175d3fd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

journal-recent 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 12d 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-recent.md · 77 lines

What it actually says

Show Recent Journal Entries

You are helping the user view their recent journal entries.

This command is especially useful after /clear to restore context about recent work.

Process

  1. Determine scope:

    • Ask how many recent entries to show (default: 10)
    • Ask if they want to filter by project
  2. Use the MCP tool: Call journal_list_recent:

    journal_list_recent(
      limit=10 (or user's preference),
      project="project-name" (optional)
    )
    
  3. Present results:

    • Show entries chronologically (newest first)
    • Highlight key information:
      • Date/time
      • Project name
      • Title
      • Brief description
    • Include entry IDs for reference
    • Summarize what they were working on

Use Cases

After /clear:

User: "What was I working on?"
→ journal_list_recent(limit=10)
→ Summarize: "You were recently working on X, Y, and Z"

Start of day:

User: "What did I do yesterday?"
→ journal_list_recent(limit=20)
→ Filter to yesterday's entries and summarize

Project context:

User: "Show recent work on my-api"
→ journal_list_recent(project="my-api", limit=15)

Presentation Format

Present entries like:

**Recent Journal Entries** (10 shown)

[42] Implemented OAuth login (2024-01-15 14:30)
📁 my-app | 🏷️ auth, oauth
Built OAuth2 flow with JWT tokens for user authentication

[41] Fixed cache memory leak (2024-01-15 10:15)
🏷️ bugfix, performance
Cache wasn't clearing old entries, causing gradual memory growth

...

Context Recovery Tips

After showing entries, help user:

  • "You were focusing on authentication in my-app"
  • "Last thing was fixing a performance issue"
  • "Ready to continue where you left off?"
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. 12d ago First seen · 77 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 268a5175d3fd

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journal-recent 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 441 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.