journal

journal is a skill for Claude Code from jason21wc/ai-governance-mcp. It costs 93 tokens per session (866 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Instructions for reviewing the current coding session and proposing updates to memory files. Memory files preserve decisions, constraints, and lessons for later sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to capture unresolved decisions, project constraints, and lessons from the current session.
Why use it?
They help prevent useful context from being lost when the session ends, while leaving the proposed changes for human review.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use them to capture unresolved decisions, project constraints, and lessons from the current session.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jason21wc/ai-governance-mcp/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 jason21wc/ai-governance-mcp --skill journal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jason21wc/ai-governance-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 866 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.
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 $0.00093 $0.00866
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00433
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00087

Measured 10d ago against content hash ec76d7b899d8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 10d 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.

global-skills/journal/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/journal — Session Memory Capture

Analyzes the current session transcript for decisions, constraints, lessons, and context that have not been persisted to memory files. Returns structured proposals categorized by target file. Does NOT write directly — you review and apply.

Runtime Context

After the skill loads, resolve the active memory layout and current transcript with ordinary read-only calls. Match transcripts by their recorded working directory, and state when the host exposes no readable transcript rather than guessing.

Instructions

Quick Start

  1. Discover the current session's transcript path using the Runtime Context above. If that shows nothing, list ~/.claude/projects/ directories and check which .jsonl files have recent modification times matching this session.

  2. Spawn a background Agent with these parameters:

    • model: "sonnet" (extraction task — Sonnet is appropriate)
    • run_in_background: true (don't block the user's work)
    • Prompt: include the transcript path and current memory file contents summary
  3. The Agent's task (include in its prompt):

    Read the transcript JSONL file at [path], focusing on the last 500 lines. Read the current contents of SESSION-STATE.md, PROJECT-MEMORY.md, LEARNING-LOG.md, BACKLOG.md, OPERATIONS.md, and ARCHITECTURE.md.

    Identify items from the conversation that are NOT yet captured in any memory file:

    • Decisions (with rationale) → propose for PROJECT-MEMORY.md
    • Lessons learned (actionable rules from mistakes or discoveries) → propose for LEARNING-LOG.md
    • Position/state changes (current task, blockers, next actions) → propose for SESSION-STATE.md
    • Deferred work items → propose for BACKLOG.md
    • Operational commitments (recurring reviews, tripwires) → propose for OPERATIONS.md
    • Architecture changes (system design, data flow) → propose for ARCHITECTURE.md
    • Reusable non-obvious patterns (solved integrations, gotcha+fix, library-selection calls, working implementations of non-obvious techniques) → propose for the Reference Library ("REFERENCE_LIBRARY" target, with domain + suggested title). High bar per curation governance §15.4: non-obvious + reusable, not routine trivia.

    For each proposal, provide:

    • Target file
    • Proposed content (ready to append/insert)
    • Why it should be persisted (what would be lost without it)

    Return ONLY structured proposals. Do NOT write to any files or call capture_reference.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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. 10d ago First seen · 76 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A ec76d7b899d8

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journal is a skill published in the GitHub repository jason21wc/ai-governance-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 866 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 2026-08-31.

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