{"slug":"show-me-your-work","title":"show-me-your-work","summary":"Keep a reviewable decision trail for long-running or unattended work: a TSV log with one row per decision (what, why, evidence, result). Local by default; commit it when a reviewer needs the trail to trust the result. Use for /show-me-your-work, autonomous or multi-phase runs, or","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-29T15:22:25.934306Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude","stars":677,"forks":83,"license":"MIT","updatedAt":"2026-09-29T12:06:50Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: show-me-your-work\ndescription: \"Keep a reviewable decision trail for long-running or unattended work: a TSV log with one row per decision (what, why, evidence, result). Local by default; commit it when a reviewer needs the trail to trust the result. Use for /show-me-your-work, autonomous or multi-phase runs, or work a human reviews after stepping away.\"</h2>\n<h1>Show me your work</h1>\n<p>Keep one canonical log.</p>\n<h2>The format</h2>\n<p>A single TSV file, one row per decision. Cells stay single-line. Evidence is a pointer, not prose.</p>\n<p>Copy <code>references/decision-log-template.tsv</code> (the header row) to start a clean log. Columns:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ts.</strong> ISO8601 timestamp.</li>\n<li><strong>phase.</strong> The phase or workstream.</li>\n<li><strong>decision.</strong> What was chosen or done, one line.</li>\n<li><strong>why.</strong> The reason in plain words. If a principle drove it, say it plainly, not as a jargon tag.</li>\n<li><strong>evidence.</strong> A link or path that proves it: commit SHA, PR number, <code>file:line</code>, or an artifact, trace, or screenshot path. Never a paragraph.</li>\n<li><strong>result.</strong> The outcome or predicate state: <code>tests green</code>, <code>reverted</code>, <code>pixel-diff 0</code>, <code>INCONCLUSIVE</code>, <code>open</code>.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>An example, plain-spoken so a reviewer reads it at a glance.</p>\n<pre><code>ts\tphase\tdecision\twhy\tevidence\tresult\n2026-05-24T09:02:00Z\tframe\tcounted the work first, about 100 components and roughly 75 hours\twanted to know the size before starting a long run\tcommit 3a9f1c2\tfound 5 things to sort out before starting\n2026-05-24T09:40:00Z\tharness\ttook screenshots of the old version before changing anything\tso we can compare old against new and catch any visual change\tscripts/snapshot.sh, baseline/\tsaved 120 reference screenshots\n2026-05-24T11:15:00Z\twidget\tmoved the widget styles over without changing how it looks\tkeep the change small and the result identical\tcommit 7c21e0a, pixel-diff 0\tlooks identical, tests pass\n2026-05-24T12:30:00Z\twidget\tthrew out a helper's work because its screenshots were blank\tchecked the real files instead of trusting its summary\tworktree reset\treverted, tightened the instructions for next time\n</code></pre>\n<h2>Logging a row</h2>\n<p>Write each entry the way you'd tell a teammate what you did. Plain words, concrete actions, no AI speak or abstract jargon (the <strong>unslop</strong> skill applies to log text too).</p>\n<p>Use the helper <code>scripts/log.sh &lt;logfile&gt; &lt;phase&gt; &lt;decision&gt; &lt;why&gt; &lt;evidence&gt; &lt;result&gt;</code>. It stamps <code>ts</code>, writes the header on first use, strips stray tabs/newlines, and prefixes any cell starting with <code>=</code>, <code>+</code>, <code>-</code>, <code>@</code>, or <code>\"</code> with a single quote. A bare <code>printf</code> appending a row works too, but mind those same bytes if cells come from generated or user-supplied text.</p>\n<p>Log decision points and checkpoints, not every action: a fork chosen, a unit completed with its verification result, a pivot or revert with its trigger, a blocker surfaced, a gate fixed. For loop runs, one row per iteration. Skip the trivial and self-evident.</p>\n<p>A run is one agent conversation, including its later turns and any summary of it. A pickup, a replacement agent, or a new chat starts a new run. When a run adds to a log that already has rows, its first row has phase <code>start</code>, and so does its first row after another run's <code>start</code> row. So a run that comes back to a log in a later turn first reads the log's last rows to see whether another run wrote since. A <code>start</code> row names the <code>ts</code> range of the rows before it that this run did not write, and its evidence names this run, such as its agent id. Use phase <code>start</code> for nothing else.</p>\n<h2>Where it lives</h2>\n<p>By default the log is a working artifact, not committed. Keep it at <code>decisions.tsv</code> in the work dir, or <code>.audit/&lt;task-slug&gt;.tsv</code> when several efforts run at once, and leave it out of git.</p>\n<p>Commit it only when the work is ambitious enough that a reviewer needs the trail to trust the result.</p>\n<h2>Rules</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Append-only. A wrong call gets a new row that supersedes it. Never edit or delete history.</li>\n<li>Prefer evidence produced by committed scripts over hand-made one-offs (the <strong>encode-lessons-in-structure</strong> principle skill).</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Audit the log against the transcript</h2>\n<p>At the end of the run, before handing back, check the log told the truth. Read this run's transcript under Claude Code's per-project transcripts directory at <code>~/.claude/projects/&lt;encoded-cwd&gt;/</code>. Don't glob across <code>~/.claude/projects/</code>. That reads unrelated private chats. Walk this run's rows against what actually happened. Each stretch of them begins at one of this run's <code>start</code> rows, or at the first row if this run created the log, and ends at the next <code>start</code> row of another run:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Check that every row maps to a real decision or action.</li>\n<li>Check that each row's evidence resolves and shows what the row claims.</li>\n<li>A fork, pivot, or abandoned approach that shaped the work but isn't logged is a gap. Add it.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Correct the log, not the story. The audit never edits or removes a row, even an invented one. When a row records neither a real decision nor a real action, or its claim or evidence is wrong, add a row that supersedes it with what actually happened and a pointer that resolves. This audit does not check rows outside this run's stretches. If this run's own work shows one of them is wrong, supersede it like any wrong call.</p>\n<h2>Cross-model review of the trail</h2>\n<p>Before handing back, spawn a subagent on a different model family from the one that did the work. Self-review is not a substitute. The subagent reads the audit trail and the run's transcript, then flags what the user should pay attention to. Not a redo of the work, a scan for what's suboptimal or risky.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decisions logged with weak or absent evidence.</li>\n<li>Verification steps skipped or claimed without proof in the transcript.</li>\n<li>Choices that look risky in hindsight (premature, scope-creeping, papering over a symptom).</li>\n<li>Gaps the user would otherwise miss on a casual skim.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Every reply for a run that produced a trail ends with an \"Attention\" section. Lead with the reviewer's model on its own line (<code>reviewed by &lt;model&gt;</code>), then list each flag pointing to specific rows or moments. \"No flags\" is a valid value. The model name is not.</p>\n<h2>Reviewing the trail</h2>\n<p>Read top to bottom, follow the evidence pointers, spot-check. GitHub renders a committed TSV as a table. <code>column -s$'\\t' -t decisions.tsv</code> renders it in a terminal.</p>\n<h2>Composing this skill</h2>\n<p>Other skills route their audit trail here instead of inventing one. Reference it by name and let it own the format. Don't restate the columns.</p>\n","files":[{"path":"references/decision-log-template.tsv","sizeBytes":38,"isText":false},{"path":"scripts/log.sh","sizeBytes":1429,"isText":true},{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":6388,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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