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work-journal from the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/work-journal@git:20261014.69bca3f

Pins git:20261014.69bca3f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer
Path: work-journal/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20261014.69bca3f, committed Oct 14, 2026
Size: 1,521 bytes
Repository stars: 6
License: MIT

Record and recall per-branch session decisions across sessions and agent worktrees using an append-only local markdown journal. Use at the end of each short work cycle, after a build or test result, before handing work to another agent, or when resuming a branch.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# work-journal

Convention: per-branch, append-only, local markdown at `$(git rev-parse --git-common-dir)/work-journal/<branch>.md`. Every worktree of the repository shares the same git common dir, so all agents read and write the same folder; nothing is committed. (Slashes in branch names are replaced with `-`.)

The bundled script `scripts/journal.sh` implements it. Optional wiring you can add yourself: a session-start hook that prints `journal.sh tail 2`, and a Stop hook that asks for an entry when HEAD has no journal entry. Neither is required.

Durable, curated lessons belong in your project's own notes; when a journal entry produces a lesson, copy the one-line lesson there.

## Entry shape (under 15 lines)

```markdown
**Change:** <what changed, one sentence>
**Decision:** <what was decided and why, if the code does not say it>
**Evidence:** <file:line, test names, telemetry, build number>
**Verified:** <build, tests run and result>
**Next:** <the next highest-leverage step, or blocker>
```

## Commands

```bash
J="<path-to-this-skill>/scripts/journal.sh"
"$J" add <<'MD'
**Change:** ...
MD
"$J" tail 5
```
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/work-journal@sha256:d81b9eeadcffcabc

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.69bca3f, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_23g6bhi43my54uui.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_23g6bhi43my54uui)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 14, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261014.69bca3f latest	2026-10-14	69bca3f	1,521 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (1521 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_23g6bhi43my54uui
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/work-journal
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d81b9eeadcffcabc88a581296f5404975a840a7c1403f9be0e10e751102f0fbb

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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