Is Private Journal safe and trustworthy?

tashan scores Private Journal on public evidence — tashan score 54.0/100, it is currently active. Audit scope: OSV advisories, install-time scripts, build provenance and declared permission surface. We do not review source code or execute the capability.

How do I install Private Journal?

Configure it from its source repository — it is a remote / registry server.

Who maintains Private Journal?

2 GitHub contributors, source: obra/private-journal-mcp.

‹ The Index

Private Journal

plugin

Private journaling MCP server with semantic search. Multi-section entries (reflections, observations, project notes, technical insights), local AI embeddings, and full-text retrieval.

Works with: Claude Code (native)
native: this artifact type is that client's own format

Category: Productivity — see all ranked ›

Work: Knowledge management

Who it is for: Operations · Researcher

Install (Claude Code):

/plugin marketplace add obra/superpowers-marketplace
/plugin install private-journal-mcp@superpowers-marketplace

solid

“Four tools with parameters and defaults; the entry file format is shown in full.”

This grade is wrong ›

tashan score: 54.0
Instruction depth: 78.0 (solid — documents the job properly, with examples you could follow)
Adoption: 1 repos
Upkeep: 70.0
Freshness: 73.0
Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use — the rest are unknown, and the score is discounted for it
Health: active
GitHub stars: 416
Contributors: 2

Security audit

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Private Journal scores 54 today. Pro keeps the series, so you can see whether that is a project getting better or one on its way down.

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The replacement, named — not just the news that something died
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Measured 2026-09-13 · scorer s5 · how · something wrong here?