devlog

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 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/nikitacodesave/claude-code-harness/devlog
Any agent
npx skills add nikitaCodeSave/claude-code-harness --skill devlog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nikitaCodeSave/claude-code-harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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. 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 $0.00114 $0.02318
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.01159
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00464
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00232

Measured 2d ago against content hash 40e61988b4a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d 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. 2d ago First seen · 154 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A 40e61988b4a4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

devlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository nikitaCodeSave/claude-code-harness (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 2,318 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 2026-08-31.

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