What is journal-entry-creator?

A tool for creating timestamped Markdown journal files with fixed sections and YAML frontmatter, which is metadata at the top of a document. It checks that each entry follows the required structure.

It helps create general or typed journal entries, validate their structure, and organize them into year-and-month folders.

It prevents journal files from using inconsistent dates, fields, or layouts that make them harder to find and process later.

journal-entry-creator — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by pantheon-or

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 pantheon-org/tekhne --skill journal-entry-creator

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pantheon-org/tekhne

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 123 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 5,121 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. 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 Memory Poisoning · line 379
Skill manipulates agent memory, state, or stored context. Memory corruption can alter personality, override safety rules, or cause unpredictable behavior.

Fix: Protect agent memory and state from modification by untrusted content. Use read-only memory for critical instructions and validate all state changes.
medium Excessive Agency · line 290
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 MCP Rug Pull · line 366
npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.

Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
medium MCP Rug Pull · line 369
npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.

Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00123	$0.05121
Opus 5	$0.00062	$0.02560
Sonnet 5	$0.00025	$0.01024
Haiku 4.5	$0.00012	$0.00512

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2b0a564e55ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

journal-entry-creator 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate-journal-entry.sh), 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.

skills/documentation/journal-entry-creator/SKILL.md · 480 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 480 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Journal Entry Creator

Automate creation of structured journal entries with template schemas, frontmatter validation, and compliance checking.

Mindset

Every entry is a durable, queryable record, not a scratch note: get the frontmatter, triple-synced dates, and structure right the first time so future search and tooling can rely on them. Know when not to use this skill: a throwaway note with no frontmatter needs no ceremony.

Prerequisites

This skill is a companion to the journal CLI and is normally installed by it (pantheon-journal skill install). Its features split into two tiers:

Self-contained (no binary needed): interactive gathering, entry-type selection, entry authoring, and structural validation via the bundled scripts/validate-journal-entry.sh.
CLI-backed (require the journal binary on PATH): corpus-wide tag lint (pantheon-journal lint) and any other pantheon-journal subcommand this skill references.

Before running any journal ... command, confirm the binary is present:

pantheon-journal --version

If it is missing, the skill was installed without its companion CLI. Install the journal CLI (its release binary, or cargo install), then retry. Until then, skip the CLI-backed steps; the self-contained workflow still applies.

When to Use This Skill

Use journal-entry-creator when:

Documentation requirement: User explicitly asks to "create journal entry", "document this", or "write about [topic]"
Structured output needed: Standard journal workflows require YAML frontmatter, triple-sync dates, and template compliance
Multiple entry types: Need to select between troubleshooting, learning, article summary, or general journal
Validation critical: Entry must pass compliance checks before commit (automated validation available)

Do NOT use for:

Quick markdown notes without frontmatter (use simple file creation instead)
External documentation systems (Confluence, Notion) — this skill is for local .md files only
Retrospective backfilling of frontmatter across many old entries: use pantheon-journal backfill for that one-pass batch repair instead

Read the full file on GitHub · 480 lines

Files

What ships with it

30 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.

8d ago First seen · 480 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A 2b0a564e55ab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

journal-entry-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository pantheon-org/tekhne (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 5,121 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 2026-09-03.

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