devlog

devlog is a skill for Claude Code from nikitaCodeSave/claude-code-harness. It costs 114 tokens per session (2,318 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A development log skill for recording important project changes in Markdown files under .claude/devlog/ and rebuilding a searchable index. A devlog is a dated record of decisions, fixes, features, and other meaningful work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after features, bug fixes, refactors, configuration or API changes, tests, and architecture decisions, or to regenerate the log index.
Why use it?
It keeps a durable history of why the project changed and brings recent entries into new sessions for context.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the devlog plugin — 1 skill, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it after features, bug fixes, refactors, configuration or API changes, tests, and architecture decisions, or to regenerate the log index.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add nikitaCodeSave/claude-code-harness
Claude Code
/plugin install devlog

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install devlog, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for devlog

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nikitacodesave/claude-code-harness/devlog/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nikitacodesave/claude-code-harness/devlog)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nikitacodesave/claude-code-harness/devlog"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nikitacodesave/claude-code-harness/devlog/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for devlog

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nikitacodesave/claude-code-harness/devlog"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nikitacodesave/claude-code-harness/devlog.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 114 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,318 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 $0.00114 $0.02318
Opus 5.5 $0.00046 $0.00927
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00464
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00232

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 40e61988b4a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devlog 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (rebuild-index.py, test_rebuild_index.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

plugins/devlog/skills/devlog/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Навык: ведение devlog

Добавляет запись в <project>/.claude/devlog/entries/ после значимых изменений. Источник правды — markdown с frontmatter; index.json + tldr.md генерируются скриптом и не редактируются вручную.

Скрипт регенерации поставляется внутри этого плагина и доступен как команда devlog-reindex на PATH, пока плагин включён (обёртка в bin/ находит skills/devlog/rebuild-index.py относительно себя — ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} в Bash-окружении не экспортируется, поэтому опираемся на PATH, а не на путь). Команда принимает devlog root через CLI-аргумент / $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR / cwd-relative fallback. Проекту достаточно создать .claude/devlog/entries/ — копировать что-либо в проект не нужно. Исключение — teammate/CI без этого плагина должны регенерировать индекс сами: тогда положи копию rebuild-index.py в <project>/.claude/devlog/rebuild-index.py, зови в README локальный путь, и при наличии project-копии используй её (она — pin проекта).

SessionStart-дайджест (тоже поставляется этим плагином). Хук hooks/session-start-digest.sh в начале каждой сессии поднимает в контекст последние 3 devlog-записи и до 3 активных progress-файлов (.claude/progress/*.md, кроме помеченных CLOSED). В проектах без .claude/devlog/ и .claude/progress/ хук молчит (exit 0 без вывода); read-only, без сети; git-статус не дублирует — его Claude Code инжектит сам. Это автоматизация session-start-ритуала harness-кита: state-on-disk сам находит следующую сессию, записи не нужно искать вручную.

Когда использовать

  • После завершения фичи, исправления бага, рефакторинга
  • После изменения конфигурации, API-контракта, CLI-интерфейса, auth flow
  • После принятия архитектурного решения
  • Когда пользователь явно просит зафиксировать изменения

НЕ использовать для:

  • Опечаток, форматирования, комментариев
  • Промежуточных состояний (незавершённые изменения)
  • Чтения кода, research, ответов без правок

Алгоритм

1. Bootstrap devlog в проекте (один раз)

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 1mo ago First seen · 154 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A 40e61988b4a4

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devlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository nikitaCodeSave/claude-code-harness (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 2,318 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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