paper-trail

A database versioning setup based on the PaperTrail library. It records each routed insert, update, and delete so you can see how records changed and restore earlier versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to track who changed records, investigate changes, meet audit needs, and revert records to an earlier state.
Why use it?
It provides an audit history and undo capability instead of relying only on creation and update timestamps.

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/fullstack-phoenix/saas_kit/paper-trail
Any agent
npx skills add fullstack-phoenix/saas_kit --skill paper-trail
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fullstack-phoenix/saas_kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,093 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 $0.00044 $0.01093
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00547
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00109

Measured 2d ago against content hash 04ae61973274, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-trail 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/paper-trail/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Versions with Paper Trail

Adds automatic record versioning via the paper_trail library. Every insert, update, and delete you route through PaperTrail is written to a versions table, so you can audit how a record changed over time, attribute each change to a user, and revert a record to an earlier state.

When to use

  • You need an audit log of changes to specific schemas (compliance, debugging).
  • You want "undo" — the ability to revert a record to a previous version.
  • You need to know which user made a given change.
  • Don't reach for this if you only need created/updated timestamps — Ecto's timestamps() already covers that. Versioning adds a row per change.

Dependencies

  • Requires: None.
  • Recommended: authentication — the migration references the users table for the originator, and the admin browser maps "User" => MyApp.Users.User.

Install

mix saaskit.feature.install paper_trail

No installer decisions. The admin-only instructions (a nav item, a /admin/versions route, and the version browser LiveView) are applied only if the admin feature is present.

What it generates

  • Adds {:paper_trail, "~> 1.1.0"} to mix.exs.
  • Migration priv/repo/migrations/*_add_versions.exs — creates the versions table (event, item_type, item_id, item_changes, originator_id, origin, meta, inserted_at).
  • lib/my_app/versions.exget_versions/1, revert_to_version/2, and the change-diffing helpers behind revert.
  • Wraps lib/my_app/repo.ex with insert_with_papertrail/2, update_with_papertrail/2, delete_with_papertrail/2, which return the plain model ({:ok, model}) instead of PaperTrail's %{model: ...} map.
  • test/my_app/versions_test.exs.
  • With admin: lib/my_app_web/live/admin/version_live/show.ex (the /admin/versions browser), a route, and a "Versions" nav item.

Configuration

Injected into config/config.exs:

config :paper_trail,
  repo: MyApp.Repo,
  timestamps_type: :utc_datetime

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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 · 119 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 04ae61973274

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-trail is a skill published in the GitHub repository fullstack-phoenix/saas_kit (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,093 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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