journal

journal is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from FrankFMY/buddy-evolution. It costs 33 tokens per session (218 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A buddy activity viewer that reads recent journal files containing session history, experience gains, achievements, and project activity. It can display recent entries or summarize a selected month.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review the last 10 journal entries, inspect a specific month, or request a summary of buddy activity.
Why use it?
It saves you from opening monthly journal files and finding the latest entries yourself. It also gathers activity into totals such as sessions, experience, achievements, and most-worked project.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the buddy-evolution plugin — 9 skills, 3 hooks shipped together

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/frankfmy/buddy-evolution/journal
Any agent
npx skills add FrankFMY/buddy-evolution --skill journal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FrankFMY/buddy-evolution

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install buddy-evolution, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 3 hooks.

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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/frankfmy/buddy-evolution/journal.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/frankfmy/buddy-evolution/journal)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/frankfmy/buddy-evolution/journal"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/frankfmy/buddy-evolution/journal.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 218 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 $0.00033 $0.00218
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00109
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00044
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00022

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6cc7cb73aa21, 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 4d 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 · 24 lines

What it actually says

Buddy Journal

Read and display recent journal entries.

Instructions

  1. Look for journal files in ~/.buddy-evolution/journal/
  2. Files are named YYYY-MM.md (one per month)
  3. Read the most recent file
  4. Display the last 10 entries (each entry starts with ## YYYY-MM-DD)
  5. If no journal files exist, tell the user that entries are created automatically at the end of each session

Output

Show the raw markdown entries as-is — they are already well-formatted with project names, duration, tool counts, XP gains, and achievements.

If the user asks for a specific month, read that month's file (e.g., 2026-04.md). If the user asks for a summary, provide aggregate stats: total sessions, total XP, achievements earned, most-worked project.

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. 4d ago First seen · 24 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 6cc7cb73aa21

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journal is a skill published in the GitHub repository FrankFMY/buddy-evolution (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 218 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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