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journal from vanducng/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add vanducng/skills/journal@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- vanducng/skills
- Path
skills/journal/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Sep 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 17, 2026
- Size
- 7,699 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Write a focused engineering journal entry - retrospective on what just shipped or post-mortem on what just broke. Use after vd:ship, vd:cook, or right after an incident while context is fresh. Saves to the injected Journals path (personal dev log, not project docs).
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
# Journal Journal **records** - one markdown file in the injected `Journals:` path. It does not redesign, retest, or roll back. If writing the entry surfaces a real bug - stop, kick to `vd:fix` or `vd:cook`, then come back to journal once the fact pattern stabilises. ## Modes | Mode | Voice | Use when | |---|---|---| | _(default)_ **retro** | Calm, structured. What shipped, what was tricky, what's next. | After `vd:ship`, `vd:cook`, end of session. | | `--incident` | Brutal-honest, 2am-developer voice. Root cause without euphemism. | A failure happened - outage, data loss, broken migration, repeated test failure, security finding. | | `--quick` | 3-5 lines, no formal structure. | Drive-by note - small fix, minor decision, surprising bit of context. Pairs with either voice. | ## Hard rules 1. **Specificity beats vibe.** Every entry names at least one concrete artifact: commit SHA, PR #, file path, error string, metric. "We had perf issues" is not a journal entry. 2. **Decision, not narration.** If a choice was made, name the alternatives that lost and why. Otherwise the future reader can't reverse-engineer the call. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add vanducng/skills/journal@sha256:4956951532c6a00dThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_bog4hpnbgz3usymx)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jun 17, 2026 and Sep 11, 2026, about one every 21 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-09-11 | 9e58ef3 | 7,699 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-30 | 492ef09 | 9,772 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-19 | b560183 | 8,771 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-24 | 51405ee | 8,668 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-17 | 55fdabe | 8,732 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7699 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
vanducng/skills · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bog4hpnbgz3usymx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vanducng/skills/journal GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4956951532c6a00dbeb8f024b74a02a687f1acd4b2274be53f4431bcf01a59e7
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.