Dev Journal: January 3-6, 2026
A productive 4-day stretch focused on three main projects. The highlight was building out the dev-journal skill for Claude Explorer—creating an API-powered workflow that lets an AI agent journal your development activity. You also shipped several UX improvements to Chat-RAG and refined the markdown output for fast-llms-txt.
Monday, January 6
Claude Explorer - Dev journal skill and API refinements
- Crafted a system prompt for an LLM agent to generate developer journals from the Claude Explorer API
- Built an API proxy script to work around sandbox restrictions
- Updated the dev-journal skill with the new workflow
- Debugged an issue with empty message content in the API responses
Chat-RAG - UI styling and GitHub issue fix
- Addressed GitHub issue #8
- Refined CSS styling and HTML templates for the chat explorer interface
fast-llms-txt - Schema formatting improvements
- Standardized schema extraction with dollar sign prefix convention ($Session, $Message, etc.)
- Moved all named schemas to a definitions section for consistency
Saturday, January 4
Chat-RAG - Server startup and UX fixes
- Added automatic port retry logic (tries port+1 up to 5 times if the default is in use)
- Fixed the collection selector not resetting after "Test Connection" click
- Improved logging output to show the running address in the startup banner
Friday, January 3
Claude Explorer - Activity API enhancements
- Modified 11 files across the API routes and frontend
- Updated activity.py, correlated.py, and projects.py routes
- Refined the API spec and TypeScript client
fast-llms-txt - OpenAPI-to-markdown generator improvements
- Improved markdown output formatting with H3 headings using backticks
- Changed descriptions to blockquotes below headings
- Renamed "Parameters" → "Request Parameters" and "Response" → "Returns"
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