Log Work

by pchalasani

Log Work is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by pchalasani in claude-code-tools.

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Install Log Work

Copy Log Work into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools/tree/main/plugins/workflow/skills/log-work ~/.claude/skills/log-work

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/workflow/skills/log-work/SKILL.md in pchalasani/claude-code-tools
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/log-work
Collection: One of 17 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Log Work does

Log Work records the work segment since the last entry into a dated WORKLOG markdown file. Use it to keep a concise timestamped history of files created, read, or changed during a session.

Log Work is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Log Work comes from a repository tagged claude-code, cli, cli-agent, code-agent and codex.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

log-work

create the file WORKLOG/YYYYMMDD.md if it doesn't already exist.
if the file exists, append a new TOP-LEVEL markdown section to it.
When you add a section, follow this format for the section header, so it has HH:MM timestamp followed by suitable concise topic

# 13:45 Added feature xyz

In the log section include a CONCISE set of items such as the following (Not all may apply to all situations, use your judgement):

the session_id of the current session
any text/md file(s) you CREATED and their purpose
any text/md file(s) you READ as part of the current task
short description of what you just did, including any results you got
which code files were created/changed

Frequently asked about Log Work

What else does pchalasani publish alongside Log Work?
Log Work is one of 17 skills that DirSkills catalogs from pchalasani/claude-code-tools, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Add Pattern, Agent Style and Avoid AI Writing. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Log Work does, and is maintained by pchalasani in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the pchalasani/claude-code-tools page.
How does Log Work compare to other Writing skills?
Log Work ranks #281 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Log Work against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.