| name | work-report |
| description | Generate a daily code-journal report for today (default) or a specified date. Spawns daily-report-drafter to draft and save the markdown; submission is the host application's call. |
| allowed-tools | Bash |
| argument-hint | [--date YYYY-MM-DD] [--language CODE] |
You are handling a manual daily-report request. The user invoked /code-journal:work-report because they want either a fresh snapshot of "what have I done so far today" or an after-the-fact catchup for a specific past day. Both cases route through the same daily-report-drafter subagent — you pick the date, the subagent does the work.
This skill is also the only path that produces today's report. The Electron scheduler's catch-up sweep deliberately never drafts today, because today is still in flight; it only catches up past missing days. So if the user wants today's report, they have to ask for it explicitly via this skill.
The only tool you may use is Bash, and you should keep yourself to read-only commands plus date computation:
"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/code-journal" --version, "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/code-journal" config get ... (CLI introspection only — no write-report, no submit)date (computing today's UTC date)cat, ls (reading project state for context)- shell test primitives
test / [ ... ], echo, true, &&, ||
The plugin ships its self-contained CLI at ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/code-journal (Python stdlib only, no install required). Always invoke it via that quoted path.
Do not invoke write-report or submit yourself. The subagent owns those calls. Do not edit files under the project's user-home root.
Step 1 — Verify the project is initialized
"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/code-journal" whoami >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo OK || echo MISSING
whoami resolves the project key (<userId>/<orgId>/<projectId>) by reverse-scanning every project's config.cwds[]. If this cwd is registered in some project, it prints the key and exits 0. Otherwise it exits non-zero — meaning this directory isn't part of any code-journal project.
If MISSING, tell the user:
This cwd isn't registered with any code-journal project (not found in any config.cwds[]). Run /code-journal:work-log-init first to bootstrap the project, then come back to /code-journal:work-report.
Then stop.
Step 2 — Determine the target date
Parse the slash-command args:
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If the user passed --date YYYY-MM-DD, validate the shape (grep -E '^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}$' is enough) and use that value verbatim. If the shape is wrong, refuse with a one-liner:
--date expects an ISO date like 2026-05-07. Got <input> — try again with the correct shape.
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Otherwise (no args, or unrelated args), default to today in UTC:
date -u +%Y-%m-%d
UTC is the canonical timezone for target_date across this system — entry ids, daily windows, and report filenames are all UTC-keyed. Using local time here would produce a date that doesn't line up with what ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/code-journal query --window today returns.
Confirm the choice in one short sentence to the user before delegating, e.g. "Drafting today's report for 2026-05-07." or "Drafting catchup for 2026-05-04." This is just a courtesy — don't gate the delegation on a y/n; the user already asked for the report by invoking the skill.
Step 2.5 — Optional --language CODE override
The drafter's default behavior is to read report.language from the project's config.json (under ~/.code-journal/<userId>/<orgId>/projects/<projectId>/config.json — resolve the key via code-journal whoami) and write the whole report body in that language (frontmatter stays ASCII). If the user passed --language CODE to this slash command, that's a one-shot override of the project default for this single run.
Acceptable forms: any short string the drafter can interpret as a target language — BCP-47 codes like zh-CN, ja, en, or natural-language names like Chinese, Japanese. Don't normalize on this side; pass the user's value through verbatim and let the drafter resolve it. If --language is absent, do not invent one — the drafter will fall back to project config.
Step 3 — Delegate to daily-report-drafter
Hand off to the subagent. Use natural-language delegation:
Use the daily-report-drafter subagent to draft the daily code-journal report. Inputs: cwd=<absolute project root>, target_date=<YYYY-MM-DD chosen in step 2>. Follow its standard procedure — index-only fetch, short-circuit if zero entries, draft the markdown, save via ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/code-journal write-report. Submission is the host application's call; the drafter stops at the saved markdown.
If --language CODE was given in step 2.5, append a sentence to the delegation prompt:
Use language=<code> for this run; that overrides the project's report.language value.
If --language was not given, say nothing about language — the drafter knows to consult config.json on its own.
Pass the project root as an absolute path. Do not pre-compute the report content or pre-call any CLI commands the subagent is supposed to make — the subagent's procedure is the source of truth for what gets queried, drafted, and saved.
Note: this skill is the only path that may draft today's report. The scheduler's catch-up sweep never passes today to the subagent — it only catches up past dates. So if target_date from step 2 equals today, that's expected and the subagent will handle it the same way as any other date.
Step 4 — Report the subagent's outcome
The subagent prints exactly one stdout line at the end: drafted <target_date> or skipped <target_date>. Surface that line back to the user verbatim, then add one sentence of context:
drafted 2026-05-07 — saved to ~/.code-journal/<userId>/<orgId>/projects/<projectId>/reports/2026-05-07-daily.md. The Electron host (if running) may forward it onward according to its own settings.
skipped 2026-05-07 — no canonical-log entries on that day, so no report was drafted. (The drafter only writes when there's actual work to summarize.)
If the subagent surfaces an error instead — CLI not on PATH, project not initialized, write-report refused because the file already exists, submit failed — pass the error through unchanged. The user needs the real failure mode, not a sanitized retelling.
Why each guard exists
- Project-existence check (step 1): without a project, nothing the drafter does is meaningful; checking up front gives a clearer error and a direct pointer to
/code-journal:work-log-init.
- UTC default for today (step 2): all date-keyed artifacts in this system (entry ids, query windows, report filenames) are UTC. Using local time silently misaligns the slash-command's "today" with the canonical log's "today", which produces the wrong report.
- Subagent-only writes (step 3): the drafter encapsulates the empty-window check, the markdown template, the
source_entry_ids correctness, and the optional submit follow-through. Bypassing it would force this skill to reimplement all that logic.
- Bash-only, read-only whitelist: this skill is orchestration. Granting it broader access invites accidental scope creep into report editing, which belongs elsewhere.
