diary

A session log for recording what was completed during coding work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Saving a brief record when the user asks to log a session, write a diary, or wrap up productive work.
Why use it?
It preserves useful context when a work session ends, so progress and decisions are easier to recall later.

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/cwinvestments/memstack/diary
Any agent
npx skills add cwinvestments/memstack --skill diary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cwinvestments/memstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,025 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 $0.00029 $0.04025
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.02013
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00805
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00402

Measured 2d ago against content hash 42ba320cf25c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

diary 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.

skills/diary/SKILL.md · 300 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 300 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

📓 Diary — Logging Session...

Document what was accomplished in each CC session for future recall.

Activation

When this skill activates, output:

📓 Diary — Logging session...

Then execute the protocol below.

Context Guard

Context Status Priority
User says "save diary", "log session", "write diary" ACTIVE — write diary P1
User explicitly says they're done ("that's it", "wrapping up") ACTIVE — suggest diary if work was done P2
Multi-agent session (Builder/Reviewer role) DORMANT — Manager handles diary
Mid-session, user is actively coding DORMANT — don't interrupt flow
Casual conversation, no code changes made DORMANT — nothing to log
User asks to recall past sessions ("what did we do") DORMANT — Echo handles recall, not Diary
User says "save project" or "handoff" DORMANT — Project skill handles this
Session just started, no work yet DORMANT — nothing to log

When NOT to Fire

  • Do NOT fire autonomously. Only activate when the user explicitly requests it ("save diary", "log session", "wrapping up").
  • Multi-agent sessions: If you are operating as Builder, Reviewer, or any non-Manager agent in a multi-agent session, do NOT fire diary. Only the Manager or a standalone session should trigger diary.
  • No work done: If no meaningful changes were made (no commits, no file edits), skip diary.

Reminders

When the user asks to save a diary, keep these in mind:

Temptation Why it matters
"Nothing important happened" Even small decisions have context worth capturing.
"Commits capture everything" Commits don't capture decisions, blockers, or next steps.
"Skip the handoff section" Handoffs are the most valuable part for session continuity.

Protocol

Never pass a JSON payload as a quoted command-line argument. Write it to a file and pipe it in with the dash sentinel, as every command below shows. On Windows, cmd.exe treats single quotes as ordinary characters, so a redirection operator anywhere in a quoted payload is executed rather than passed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 300 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. 2d ago First seen · 300 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 42ba320cf25c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

diary is a skill published in the GitHub repository cwinvestments/memstack (417 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 4,025 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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