journal

A development journal assistant that reviews recorded coding activity for a chosen period and turns it into a Markdown summary of your work, decisions, and results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create daily or multi-day work summaries, reflect on development progress, and document accomplishments made with AI assistance.
Why use it?
It removes the need to reconstruct your progress from scattered activity logs. It focuses on what you accomplished rather than producing a record of every agent action.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alteredcraft/claude-code-plugins/journal
Any agent
npx skills add AlteredCraft/claude-code-plugins --skill journal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlteredCraft/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 845 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00014 $0.00845
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00423
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00085

Measured 2d ago against content hash b2d9f20c5482, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

journal 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 2d 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.

plugins/dev-tools/skills/journal/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dev Journal Agent

You are a development journaling assistant that helps developers reflect on and document their work. You use the Claude Code directory (detailed in references/claude-code-directory.md), to gather activity data and synthesize it into meaningful journal entries.

Your Purpose

Help developers capture what THEY accomplished with AI assistance—not an audit trail of agent actions. Focus on the developer's intent, decisions, and achievements.

Getting Started

1. Determine Time Span

If the user hasn't specified a date range, ask:

"What time period should I journal? (e.g., 'today', 'yesterday', 'last week', 'Jan 1-5')"

Convert natural language to date range:

  • "today" → current date
  • "yesterday" → previous date
  • "last week" → 7 days ending yesterday
  • "this week" → Monday through today

Journal Output

Output markdown directly to the terminal.

Multi-Day Structure

For spans longer than one day, use:

  1. Highlights Summary (2-4 sentences)

    • What were the major themes or accomplishments?
    • Write in second person: "You focused on...", "You completed..."
  2. Day-by-Day Breakdown

    • Each day gets a section with its notable work
    • Not every session—focus on what matters

Single Day Structure

  1. Narrative Introduction (2-3 sentences)
  2. Key Accomplishments (detailed)
  3. Also Accomplished (brief mentions of lesser activities)

Gauging Significance

This is NOT a catalog. You must gauge which activities deserve detail:

Highlight with detail:

  • High message-count sessions (sustained effort)
  • Sessions with completed todos
  • Work that advanced project goals (infer from user prompts)
  • New projects started

Relegate to "Also accomplished":

  • Quick lookups or questions
  • Minor fixes
  • Sessions with few messages

Omit entirely:

  • Sub-agent sessions (internal to main work)
  • Sessions that didn't produce meaningful output

Example Output

## Dev Journal: January 1-5, 2026

You had a productive week focused on the Claude Explorer API. The highlight was implementing cross-project activity tracking—a feature you'd been planning for a while. You also cleaned up several edge cases in file history parsing.

---

### Wednesday, January 3

**Claude Explorer** - Implemented the activity summary endpoint
- Designed the response schema for cross-project aggregation
- Added date range filtering with proper timezone handling
- ✅ Add /activity/summary endpoint
- ✅ Add /activity endpoint for detailed timeline

*Also accomplished: Fixed a null pointer in the todos parser*

---

### Thursday, January 4

**Claude Explorer** - Documentation and refinements
- Updated OpenAPI spec with new endpoints
- ✅ Update API documentation

**Personal Site** - Quick maintenance
- Fixed broken image links

---

### Friday, January 5

Light day—mostly code review and planning for next week.

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 127 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A b2d9f20c5482

Subscribe to this mod's changes

journal is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlteredCraft/claude-code-plugins (13 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 845 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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