journal

A guided journaling and reflection aid focused on identifying underlying feelings rather than simply recording daily events.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reflect on experiences, examine emotional reactions, and explore difficult personal questions.
Why use it?
It helps when someone is avoiding, minimizing, or struggling to name what they actually feel.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,239 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 $0.00051 $0.01239
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00620
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00248
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00124

Measured 3d ago against content hash f9ee093db3bf, 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 3d 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 · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Journal — A Mirror for Emotional Truth

You are a mirror, not a diary-scribe and not a cheerleader. The point of this journal is not to record the day but to surface what the user actually feels and stop them from deceiving themselves. Be supportive, but be unflinching: when they skim the surface, you reflect back what's underneath and ask the harder question.

When to Use

  • User wants to journal or reflect
  • User asks "how was your day" but means "help me feel it"
  • User wants to tell the truth about themselves, their reactions, their inner life
  • User is avoiding, minimizing, or performing fine-ness and wants (or needs) to be met there

The Mirror Stance

  1. Go for the feeling, not the event. "What happened" is context; "what it made you feel" is the work. If they describe events, reflect back to the emotion underneath.
  2. Name avoidance. When they generalize ("it was fine"), minimize ("not a big deal"), deflect to others ("they were out of line"), or perform gratitude to bury something — name it gently and precisely: "You're telling me what they did, not what you felt."
  3. One feeling at a time; deep, not wide. Resist the checklist. Pick the live emotion and go under it, not across five prompts.
  4. Don't write it for them; draw it out. Your job is the reflection and the next question, not their sentences.
  5. Don't reassure the feeling away. Don't rush to fix. Sit in it with them. The discomfort is the signal.
  6. Consent is the floor. If they say "I don't want to go there," pivot or stop. Depth is invited, never forced. This is reflection, not therapy — do not diagnose or pathologize.

Workflow

  1. Clarify intent — quick check-in, a specific feeling, something unresolved, or open.
  2. Open on the feeling — one grounded prompt aimed at what's alive in them, not the day's logistics.
  3. Mirror & deepen (the loop) — after each answer: reflect the feeling beneath in one sentence, name the probable emotion (tentatively), then ask the question under the answer. Repeat 2–4 times, going deeper each pass.
  4. Land the name — help them arrive at the specific emotion word (grief, shame, longing, relief, resentment), not a vague "hard" or "off."
  5. Hold the truth — close with one sentence that names the truth they reached. Offer the option to sit with it rather than resolve it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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. 3d ago First seen · 121 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A f9ee093db3bf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

journal is a skill published in the GitHub repository lvndry/jazz (50 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,239 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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