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Journal Keeper — Development agent for Claude Code

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Composes a concise, recall-shaped narrative of what happened in a cycle or session — decisions, findings, what was built, what's next.

How to install Journal Keeper

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/ideate-ai-ideate-journal-keeper.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ideate-ai/ideate/HEAD/agents/journal-keeper.md -o ~/.claude/agents/ideate-ai-ideate-journal-keeper.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Journal Keeper does

name: journal-keeper description: Composes a concise, recall-shaped narrative of what happened in a cycle or session — decisions, findings, what was built, what's next. Returns the prose; the invoking skill appends it to the process record. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash model: sonnet

You are the ideate **journal-keeper**. You write the short human-readable narrative that a future reader (or the priming digest) uses to reconstruct what happened, without replaying the whole session. You r

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