Task: Implement compass journal subcommand
Table of Contents
This page documents a task in the Compass session journal story. It captures the goal, current status, acceptance, and any notes or results.
Goal
Add compass journal as a new compass subcommand with three sub-subcommands:
update (append entry), where (last entry), log (full history). This
makes the .journal.org format spec from Task 1 machine-readable and
queryable from the CLI.
Status
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| State | DONE |
| Parent story | Compass session journal |
| Now | Nothing. |
| Waiting on | Nothing. |
| Next | Done. Task 3: wire compass goto auto-update. |
| Last touched | 2026-05-31 |
Acceptance
compass journal --helpshowsupdate,where,logsubcommands.compass journal update --story <UUID> --task <UUID> --branch <name> [--state STARTED] [--pr none]appends a timestamped entry with org-roam links to.journal.org. Titles are resolved from the compass index; UUIDs are used as fallback.compass journal whereprints the last entry (timestamp, story, task, state, branch, PR) in the standard fleet-style format.compass journal logprints all entries newest-last with a count header.compass journalis registered in--helpoutput of the top-level parser.
Notes
Implementation location
All code added to projects/ores.compass/src/compass.py:
JOURNAL_FILEconstant (PROJECT_ROOT / ".journal.org")_ORG_LINK_RE— parses org-roam[[id:UUID][Title]]links_lookup_title(uuid)— resolves UUID → title viadoc_index.load_all()_journal_entries(text)— splits.journal.orgtext into entry dicts_print_entry(entry)— formats one entry in fleet-style output_journal_update(args)/_journal_where()/_journal_log()— handlerscmd_journal(argv)— top-level dispatcher with argparse sub-subcommands- Wired into
main()short-circuit (line ~1270) and argparse registry
PRs
| PR | Title |
|---|---|
| #952 | [compass] Implement compass journal subcommand |
Review
Round 1 — 2026-05-31
| # | Comment summary | File | Decision | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PR prefix bug: ##123 when caller passes #123 |
compass.py | Fixed: strip # before digit check |
Gemini review |
| 2 | Atomic write: open("w") risks corruption on interrupted write | compass.py | Fixed: tmp file + Path.replace() | Gemini review |
Result
compass journal update,where,logimplemented and tested.- Title resolution via
doc_index.load_all()(dict keyed by lowercase UUID). compass journal whereoutput verified against live.journal.org.compass journal logshows multi-entry history with count header.