dev-diarylisted

Run a guided end-of-day loop that discovers everything the user did today from their local Claude Code sessions, git commits, and prompt history, interviews them about what actually mattered, and records a scannable dated entry in the dev-diary journal. Use this whenever the user wants to write a dev diary, daily log, work journal, standup note, changelog entry, or "what did I do today" wrap-up — or says things like "log today", "diary entry", "capture today", "end of day", "what did I get done", "dev-diary", or invokes /dev-diary. Also use it to backfill a past day (pass the date) or to review recent entries.
JRichlen/claude-plugins · ★ 1 · Code & Development · score 71

Install: claude install-skill JRichlen/claude-plugins

# Dev Diary Turn a day of scattered work into one entry that a busy person can scan in fifteen seconds and a future self can trust. The value is not transcription — the raw signals already exist. The value is **judgment**: separating the two or three things that mattered from the noise, and recording *why* they mattered. This skill ships in the `dev-diary` plugin, but the **journal itself is a separate private repo at `~/projects/dev-diary`**. Entries are committed there, organized temporally under `entries/YYYY/`. Keeping the tool (this plugin) and the journal (that repo) apart is deliberate: the plugin is shareable; the diary is private. ## The loop Work through these phases in order. Do not skip the interview — an unreviewed auto-summary is exactly the low-signal artifact this skill exists to avoid. ### 1. Resolve the day and locate the repo - Target date = the argument if given, else today in **local** time (`date +%F`). The user's clock is what defines "today", not UTC. - The journal root is `~/projects/dev-diary` (a separate private repo from this plugin). Confirm `entries/` exists there. ### 2. Discover — run the deterministic first pass Run the discovery script and read its digest. It is fast, read-only, and gathers the three signals that actually show what happened: ```bash <skill-dir>/scripts/discover-today.sh [YYYY-MM-DD] ``` It emits Markdown with three sections: **Prompts typed** (from `~/.claude/history.jsonl`), **Sessions active** (titles + turn c