captain-diary

captain-diary is a skill for Claude Code from leopu00/job-hunter-team. It costs 117 tokens per session (579 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A daily handoff journal for the Captain, the agent coordinating the team. It stores important operational events and lessons so a restarted Captain can continue with the previous day's knowledge.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reading the previous day's handoff, recording notable scaling or recovery events, and preserving practical guidance for the next work session.
Why use it?
It prevents repeated mistakes after restarts, such as launching too many workers at once or choosing an unsuitable work pace. Only significant decisions and lessons are recorded.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is Bash(python3 /app/shared/skills/captain_diary.py *).

Good fit Reading the previous day's handoff, recording notable scaling or recovery events, and preserving practical guidance for the next work session.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/leopu00/job-hunter-team
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/leopu00/job-hunter-team/captain-diary

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 579 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 $0.00117 $0.00579
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.00290
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00058

Measured 11d ago against content hash 09a0d174593d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

captain-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 11d 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.

agents/_skills/captain-diary/SKILL.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

captain-diary — the handoff between Captains

One file per day in $JHT_HOME/logs/captain-diary-YYYY-MM-DD.md, append-only. Its job is to keep you from starting over at every restart: today's pacing lessons are handed to tomorrow's Captain.

At wake (ALWAYS, before working)

Read the notes left by the previous day's Captain:

python3 /app/shared/skills/captain_diary.py handoff

It prints yesterday's notes (or those of the last day worked) plus whatever is already recorded today. You inherit the lessons → do not repeat the same mistakes. If there is nothing, you are the first: start recording.

During the day — record the SIGNIFICANT events

One line, whenever something happens that carries a lesson. NOT a diary of everything: only what tomorrow's Captain would need.

python3 /app/shared/skills/captain_diary.py add "20:05 — 3 Scouts at once: unbrakable \
spike within 15 min, 5h of coasting to repay the debt. Lesson: max 1 Scout then \
30 min of observation (C-02)."

What is worth recording:

  • scaling decisions that went badly (or well) — how many workers, which throttle, what happened;
  • a spike you could not brake and how you recovered from it;
  • a kill and why;
  • a pattern that emerged (e.g. "the Scout on site X consumes twice as much");
  • anything that, if you knew it tomorrow, would avoid a mistake.

Reviewing today only

python3 /app/shared/skills/captain_diary.py today

Rule

  • The diary is the baton: read it at boot, feed it during the day.
  • Notes must be short and actionable (one fact + the lesson), not a verbose log.
  • The timestamp is added by the tool: you write only the fact and the lesson.
Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 54 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A 09a0d174593d

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captain-diary is a skill published in the GitHub repository leopu00/job-hunter-team (49 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 579 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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