Keep a reviewable decision trail for long-running or unattended work: a TSV log with one row per decision (what, why, evidence, result). Local by default; commit it when a reviewer needs the trail. Use for /show-me-your-work, overnight, babysit, autonomous, or multi-phase runs, or work a human reviews after stepping away. Not for a short same-turn fix — that's the evidence rules / prove-it gate.
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
# Show me your work
Adapted from pstack's `show-me-your-work` (MIT, Lauren Tan). Same trail
format. Cursor-only transcript globbing and poteto-mode routing dropped so
this works in Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.
For work a human reviews after the fact, a decision trail lets them see what
was decided, why, and on what evidence, without rereading the whole
transcript. Keep one canonical log so the trail is consistent and a future
agent can find it.
This is not prove-it. Prove-it (CLAUDE.md evidence rules) is a same-turn
gate: don't claim "works" unless you checked it in this message. This skill
is a leftover table so someone can review after they left.
## The format
A single TSV file, one row per decision. TSV because GitHub renders it as a
sortable table, `column -s$'\t' -t` and spreadsheets read it, and a row
appends with one command. Cells stay single-line. Evidence is a pointer, not
prose.
Copy `references/decision-log-template.tsv` (the header row) to start a
clean log. Columns:
- **ts.** ISO8601 timestamp. The timeline axis.
- **phase.** The phase or workstream.
- **decision.** What was chosen or done, one line.
- **why.** The reason in plain words.
…
The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260912.311d633, 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.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bpel2jggurlwqcyy
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=edbertchan/catstack/show-me-your-work
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/47d94fc96d16a4ea98c3265b84635bb3e357c7aa56d9b7a3edc6dab5838e7ab1
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