journal

journal is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from exon-research/genomi. It costs 27 tokens per session (950 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An append-only research notebook for recording investigation reasoning, evidence links, decisions, disagreements, plans, summaries, and unanswered questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps maintain session or project notes and store reviewed research findings linked to Genomi evidence and operations.
Why use it?
It preserves how conclusions were reached and keeps source-backed findings available for reuse across a longer investigation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps maintain session or project notes and store reviewed research findings linked to Genomi evidence and operations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/exon-research/genomi/journal
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.

Any agent
npx skills add exon-research/genomi --skill journal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/exon-research/genomi

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for journal

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 950 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00027 $0.00950
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00475
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00190
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00095

Measured 8d ago against content hash ec74a7c8e2cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 8d 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/journal/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Journal and Research Memory

Use journal when an investigation spans multiple Genomi tools and the host agent needs to record reasoning, evidence links, or reviewed source findings.

Goal

Record the host agent's observations, hypotheses, decisions, contradictions, plans, summaries, and unresolved questions while preserving traceability to Genomi operations and evidence identifiers.

Journal entries are the append-only notebook. Reviewed research records are source-memory entries in the evidence DB. They live in the same capability because both preserve investigation memory, but they have different roles: journal entries explain what the host agent concluded or still needs to check; reviewed research records store source-backed findings for reuse.

Neither journal entries nor reviewed research records rank candidates by themselves. Candidate ranking still belongs to the relevant evidence tools, with reviewed source records passed only when a tool explicitly accepts them.

Scopes

  • session: current chat/session notebook. It may link private/sample evidence only after scoped Active Genome Index access is approved for this session.
  • project: current workspace notebook. It is public/target-scoped and rejects private/sample evidence links.

Cross-Capability Synthesis

A scope-limited result from this capability is not a final user-facing answer when other Genomi capabilities can contribute orthogonal evidence to the same question. Returning "cannot answer" while applicable capabilities remain unexamined is a host-agent failure mode.

Tools

journal.append_entry

Append a new journal entry, or append evidence links and/or an amendment to an existing entry.

Use when: Record an observation, hypothesis, decision, contradiction, plan, summary, unresolved question, or append evidence/amendment to an existing entry.

Why necessary: Multi-tool investigations need one append-only write path for notes, evidence links, and corrections so agents do not sequence separate journal mutations.

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 8d ago First seen · 113 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A ec74a7c8e2cf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

journal is a skill published in the GitHub repository exon-research/genomi (481 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 950 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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