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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
The skill file stays in the publisher's repository.
Paste the copied command in a terminal. It installs this SKILL.md into that agent.
npx skills add michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill show-me-your-work -a cursor -y
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.
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.
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Keep one canonical log.
A single TSV file, one row per decision. Cells stay single-line. Evidence is a pointer, not prose.
Copy references/decision-log-template.tsv (the header row) to start a clean log. Columns:
file:line, or an artifact, trace, or screenshot path. Never a paragraph.tests green, reverted, pixel-diff 0, INCONCLUSIVE, open.An example, plain-spoken so a reviewer reads it at a glance.
ts phase decision why evidence result
2026-05-24T09:02:00Z frame counted the work first, about 100 components and roughly 75 hours wanted to know the size before starting a long run commit 3a9f1c2 found 5 things to sort out before starting
2026-05-24T09:40:00Z harness took screenshots of the old version before changing anything so we can compare old against new and catch any visual change scripts/snapshot.sh, baseline/ saved 120 reference screenshots
2026-05-24T11:15:00Z widget moved the widget styles over without changing how it looks keep the change small and the result identical commit 7c21e0a, pixel-diff 0 looks identical, tests pass
2026-05-24T12:30:00Z widget threw out a helper's work because its screenshots were blank checked the real files instead of trusting its summary worktree reset reverted, tightened the instructions for next time
Write each entry the way you'd tell a teammate what you did. Plain words, concrete actions, no AI speak or abstract jargon (the unslop skill applies to log text too).
Use the helper scripts/log.sh <logfile> <phase> <decision> <why> <evidence> <result>. It stamps ts, writes the header on first use, strips stray tabs/newlines, and prefixes any cell starting with =, +, -, @, or " with a single quote. A bare printf appending a row works too, but mind those same bytes if cells come from generated or user-supplied text.
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.
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 start, and so does its first row after another run's start 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 start row names the ts 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 start for nothing else.
By default the log is a working artifact, not committed. Keep it at decisions.tsv in the work dir, or .audit/<task-slug>.tsv when several efforts run at once, and leave it out of git.
Commit it only when the work is ambitious enough that a reviewer needs the trail to trust the result.
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 ~/.claude/projects/<encoded-cwd>/. Don't glob across ~/.claude/projects/. 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 start rows, or at the first row if this run created the log, and ends at the next start row of another run:
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.
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. Pick each subagent's reasoning level for the job, per the Subagents section of the poteto-mode skill.
Every reply for a run that produced a trail ends with an "Attention" section. Lead with the reviewer's model on its own line (reviewed by <model>), then list each flag pointing to specific rows or moments. "No flags" is a valid value. The model name is not.
Read top to bottom, follow the evidence pointers, spot-check. GitHub renders a committed TSV as a table. column -s$'\t' -t decisions.tsv renders it in a terminal.
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.