journal-review

journal-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit. It costs 98 tokens per session (4,397 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that periodically reviews journal entries to find decisions, lessons, action items, and recurring themes that were not formally recorded. It works from entries stored in a journal folder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review this week, last week, a chosen number of days, or a date range, with optional filtering for decisions, learnings, actions, or themes.
Why use it?
It helps turn scattered daily notes into explicit project knowledge and follow-up work. This can expose decisions or tasks that were mentioned but never tracked.

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/backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit/journal-review
Any agent
npx skills add backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit --skill journal-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,397 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 5.1 $0.00098 $0.04397
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.02198
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00879
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00440

Measured 5d ago against content hash 977e69ec73be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

journal-review 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 5d 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.

contrib/journal-review/SKILL.md · 453 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 453 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/journal-review Workflow

Inputs

User provides:

  • Review period: "this week", "last week", "last N days", "this sprint", a date range (YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD), or omitted (defaults to "this week")
  • Optional: category filter (decisions, learnings, actions, themes, or all)

Scope parameters:

  • JOURNAL_BASE: ~/journal/ (hardcoded, matches /journal and /journal-recall skills)
  • REVIEW_CATEGORIES: decisions, learnings, actions, themes
  • DECISION_SIGNALS: "decided", "chose", "went with", "opted for", "tradeoff", "picked", "selected", "decision:"
  • LEARNING_SIGNALS: "learned", "discovered", "figured out", "TIL", "gotcha", "insight", "realization", "aha"
  • ACTION_SIGNALS: "- [ ]", "TODO", "follow up", "need to", "action item", "next step"
  • Default review period: "this week" (Monday of current week through today)

Step 0 — Configure Review Period

Action: Parse user input to determine the date range for the review.

Date resolution rules:

  1. "this week" (or omitted): Monday of current week through today (inclusive)
  2. "last week": Monday through Sunday of previous week
  3. "last N days": Today minus N through today (inclusive)
  4. "this sprint": Last 14 days (2-week sprint default)
  5. Date range (YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD): Exact range specified
  6. Single date: That date only

Validation:

  • Start date must not be in the future
  • End date must be >= start date
  • Range must not exceed 90 days (safety limit)
  • If validation fails, report error and FAIL

Category filter:

  • If user specifies a category, only scan for that category
  • Default: all categories (decisions, learnings, actions, themes)

Tool declarations: Bash (date calculations)

Checkpoint: Review period resolved to concrete start/end dates, categories determined

Step 1 — Scan Daily and Meeting Entries

Action: Read all daily and meeting entries within the review period.

File discovery:

  1. Use Glob to find daily entries: $JOURNAL_BASE/daily/*.md
  2. Filter by date range: parse YYYY-MM-DD from filename, include if within [start, end]
  3. Use Glob to find meeting entries: $JOURNAL_BASE/meetings/*.md
  4. Filter meetings by date: parse YYYY-MM-DD prefix from filename
  5. Read all matching files

Read the full file on GitHub · 453 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. 5d ago First seen · 453 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 977e69ec73be

Subscribe to this mod's changes

journal-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit (15 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 4,397 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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