Write engineering retrospectives
journalskillsetup L1★0
vanducng/skills ↗What it does
Write structured personal/team journals with timestamped entries, context linking, and searchability
Best for
Engineering teams that need an audit trail of decisions, blockers, and retrospectives without relying on chat archives.
Inputs
- · Journal entry text
- · Tags/categories
- · Context links (issue keys, people, projects)
Outputs
- · Timestamped entry
- · Indexed for full-text search
- · Linkable from issues/people
Requires
- · Git repo for entries
- · full-text search index
- · markdown parser
Preconditions
Journal directory initialized; timestamp automation available; git repo accessible
Failure modes
- · Entry not timestamped → chronology unclear
- · Context links stale → dangling references
- · Search index not rebuilt → recent entries not findable
Trust signals
- · Entries timestamped and git-tracked (immutable history)
- · Context links (issue keys, @mentions) auto-detected and indexed
- · Full-text search includes tags and entry body