logbook

A repository-history guide that turns Git records—the log of code changes—into short notes about fragile areas, past reversions, and changes that should not be repeated.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting in an unfamiliar repository, planning a large refactor, investigating recurring breakage, or checking what previous developers tried.
Why use it?
It helps an agent understand why unfamiliar code looks the way it does before changing it. This reduces repeated failed approaches and overlooked history.

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/promptwheel-ai/logbook/plugin
Any agent
npx skills add promptwheel-ai/logbook --skill plugin
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/promptwheel-ai/logbook

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,184 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 $0.00078 $0.01184
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00592
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00237
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00118

Measured 2d ago against content hash 507165fe765c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

logbook 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.

plugin/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Logbook

npx @promptwheel/logbook              # analyze current repo → 3 files
npx @promptwheel/logbook journey      # the story, in color (writes nothing)
npx @promptwheel/logbook doctor       # read-only artifact/wiring/query health
npx @promptwheel/logbook --json       # events to stdout (writes nothing)

Never touches source or git history; writes only its own brief files. -n N caps commits; --since/--until for era scoping.

After running:

  1. Read $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/LOGBOOK.md completely before any history query. Do not replace this step with a broad keyword search.
  2. Relay "What a fresh session should know" plus the 2-3 most notable findings. If Historical signal is LOW, use it only as a hotspot map; otherwise inspect task-relevant do-not-retry entries and fragile areas.
  3. TRIAGE, don't parrot: the logbook is the recall layer; you are the precision layer. Cross-reference leads against the current task and verify any claim you act on with git show <sha>. Confirm it still applies at HEAD.

Findings are leads, not verdicts — a suppression event means "a human should look here," not misconduct. If the repo is shallow, offer git fetch --unshallow first.

If the artifacts, wiring, or query path look stale or inconsistent, run npx -y @promptwheel/logbook@latest doctor and report its compact output. Doctor is diagnostic and read-only; do not treat it as a refresh.

Investigation mode (when the user asks to dig into findings)

For each Notable event or flagged lead worth pursuing: git show <sha> the commit, read the actual diff, and classify it — real weakening / sanctioned maintenance / classifier artifact — with one line of evidence each. Check whether flagged suppressions are STILL in the current tree (grep HEAD for the skip/ignore near the flagged location). Present the triage as YOUR judgment layered on the deterministic record — never edit the logbook files to match your conclusions; the record and the reading stay separate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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 · 102 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 507165fe765c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

logbook is a skill published in the GitHub repository promptwheel-ai/logbook (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,184 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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