daily-journal

daily-journal is a skill for Claude Code from mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter. It costs 99 tokens per session (20,649 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A guided daily journaling conversation that helps record the day, reflect on feelings and behavior, and save a formatted entry to an Obsidian vault. Obsidian is a note-taking app that stores linked files in a personal vault.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for daily reflections, brain dumps, venting, emotional check-ins, behavior accountability, and saving entries in English or Spanish.
Why use it?
It gives a regular structure to quick notes, emotional reflection, end-of-day check-ins, and repeat entries instead of leaving them as disconnected thoughts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the ai-brain-starter plugin — 38 skills, 17 commands, 3 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it for daily reflections, brain dumps, venting, emotional check-ins, behavior accountability, and saving entries in English or Spanish.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter/daily-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 mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter --skill daily-journal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-brain-starter, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 17 commands, 3 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 20,649 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 440
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 447
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 865
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 881
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00099 $0.20649
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.10325
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.04130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.02065

Measured 8d ago against content hash 9fe42fb40c96, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

daily-journal scanned grade B with 2 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 8d 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.

Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

- Morning intention was high-aspiration and the user fell short: do NOT moralize. The point is data, not discipline. Save the gap and move on.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -sSL -m 6 -X POST "https://mycelium-ai.co/api/install/first-journal" \
skills/daily-journal/SKILL.md · 907 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 907 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Daily Journal — Interview & Log

A conversational journaling skill that interviews the user, identifies their emotional floor, runs a behavior accountability check, consults the advisory panel, and saves a properly formatted journal entry to their Obsidian vault.

Language

Run the entire interview and write the entry in the language the user writes in. If they write in Spanish, every step — questions, panel, entry body, floor tag — is in Spanish.

Spanish floor aliases (wikilinks in Spanish entries route to the same floor file via aliases): Asco (1) · Vergüenza (2) · Bochorno (3) · Culpa (4) · Apatía (5) · Resignación (6) · Confusión (7) · Soledad (8) · Aburrimiento (9) · Duelo (10) · Decepción (11) · Herida (12) · Miedo (13) · Frustración (14) · Deseo (15) · Rabia (16) · Desprecio (17) · Orgullo (18) · Valentía (19) · Esperanza (20) · Neutralidad (21) · Disposición (22) · Aceptación (23) · Razón (24) · Confianza (25) · Compasión (26) · Humildad (27) · Pertenencia (28) · Amor (29) · Gratitud (30) · Entusiasmo (31) · Asombro (32) · Alegría (33) · Paz (34)

Floor tag:

  • English: *Floor: [[Fear]] · [[Low Floors]]*
  • Spanish: *Piso: [[Miedo]] · [[Pisos Bajos]]*

How It Works

When the user invokes /journal, follow this exact flow.

The Capture-First Contract (the spine — read before everything else)

A journal entry is SAVED TO DISK from the user's first substantive message — before any follow-up questions, accountability check, floor analysis, or panel. Everything after that first save is enrichment that updates the same file in place. The interview is opt-in. The capture is guaranteed.

Why: most people open /journal, type what happened, and leave. If the entry only saves after the full interview + panel (the old flow), every one of those sessions loses the entry entirely. The single most important job of this skill is not losing what the user already told you. A captured raw entry beats a perfect entry that never got written.

The two phases:

Read the full file on GitHub · 907 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. 8d ago Changed · +10 lines 9fe42fb40c96
  2. 12d ago First seen · 897 lines · 99 tokens per session scan B a2063aee4228

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daily-journal is a skill published in the GitHub repository mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter (36 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 20,649 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (strips warnings and disclaimers, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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