journal

A quick journaling workflow that keeps the writer's words, detects a main mood, and links the entry to a daily page.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use trigger phrases such as “journal:” or “reflect:” to record daily thoughts, mood expressions, gratitude, and reflections.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to capture reflections, feelings, gratitude, and work notes without rewriting the original entry.

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/mpaarating/ai-workflow-kit/journal
Any agent
npx skills add mpaarating/ai-workflow-kit --skill journal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mpaarating/ai-workflow-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,125 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 $0.00016 $0.01125
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00562
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00225
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00112

Measured 2d ago against content hash 15fdc30faa3a, 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 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/journal/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Journal

Trigger Phrases

  • "journal:"
  • "reflect:"
  • "today I"
  • "feeling [emotion]"
  • "grateful for"
  • "on my mind:"

Inputs

The user provides a journal entry inline with the trigger phrase. The entry can be:

  • A sentence or two: "journal: Had a breakthrough on the caching layer today"
  • A mood expression: "feeling overwhelmed — too many threads open"
  • A gratitude note: "grateful for Sarah's help debugging that race condition"
  • A reflection: "reflect: I notice I default to building instead of asking for help"

Workflow

Step 1: Parse the Entry

Extract the journal content from the user's message.

  • Strip the trigger prefix ("journal:", "reflect:", etc.)
  • Preserve the user's exact words — do not rewrite, summarize, or polish
  • If the entry is just a trigger phrase with no content (e.g., "journal:"), ask: "What's on your mind?"

Step 2: Detect Mood

Analyze the entry for mood signals. Assign one primary mood:

Mood Signals
Energized excitement, momentum, breakthrough, shipped, crushed it
Focused deep work, flow state, locked in, making progress
Neutral status updates, factual observations, no strong emotion
Overwhelmed too much, scattered, can't focus, drowning, behind
Tired drained, exhausted, low energy, long day, need a break
Frustrated stuck, blocked, annoyed, broken, doesn't work, ugh
Grateful thankful, grateful, appreciate, lucky, helped by
  • If mood is ambiguous, default to Neutral
  • Do not ask the user to confirm the mood — just detect it quietly

Step 3: Detect Tags

Assign 1-3 tags based on content:

Tag Signals
Work code, meeting, ticket, PR, deploy, team, project
Personal family, health, hobby, weekend, home, friends
Reflection I notice, pattern, thinking about, wondering, realized
Gratitude grateful, thankful, appreciate, helped by
Learning learned, TIL, figured out, discovery, insight

Step 4: Check for Today's Daily Page

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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 · 135 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 15fdc30faa3a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

journal is a skill published in the GitHub repository mpaarating/ai-workflow-kit (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,125 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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