release-notes

A command that turns an automatically generated release log into readable notes in a documentation page.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before merging a release or when a released version is missing from the documentation’s release-notes page.
Why use it?
Machine-generated changelogs usually list merged changes without explaining their effect, so this adds context without changing the original log.

Command for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/arc-mcp/arc-1/release-notes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arc-mcp/arc-1

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 864 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00864
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00432
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00086

Measured 2d ago against content hash 604b0850ab15, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-notes scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/commands/release-notes.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Notes — annotate a release for the docs

Turn a raw release-please changelog entry into an annotated release entry in docs_page/release-notes.md — the page users and LLMs read to understand what a release actually changed for them.

CHANGELOG.md is machine-generated and stays that way: one line per merged PR, no context. This command adds the context next to it, never inside it.


When to run

While the release-please PR is open, before merging it. The PR body already contains the exact changelog entry for the upcoming version, so the notes can land first and main never goes red.

Also run it whenever a released version is missing from the page — tests/unit/server/release-notes.test.ts fails with the list.

Input

A version (1.0.1), a release-please PR number, or nothing (then annotate every version present in CHANGELOG.md but missing from docs_page/release-notes.md).


Method

  1. Get the raw entry — from the open release-please PR body (gh pr view <n> --json body) or from CHANGELOG.md for an already-released version.
  2. Read what actually changed — for each line: git show <sha> --stat, then the diff of the parts that matter. The PR title is a hint, not evidence. gh pr view <n> for the description where useful.
  3. Find the user-visible surface — for each change, answer concretely:
    • New or changed env var / CLI flag? (src/server/types.ts, docs_page/configuration-reference.md)
    • New or changed tool, action, object type, or parameter? (src/handlers/tools.ts, and the tests/fixtures/tool-definitions/*.json diff — that file is the LLM-visible surface)
    • Behavior change an existing setup would notice? Breaking? Security-relevant?
    • Which docs_page/*.md page documents it now?
  4. Write the entry using the template below, newest-first, above the previous version.
  5. Verifynpx vitest run tests/unit/server/release-notes.test.ts, and check every relative doc link resolves to a file that exists. The guard counts a version as annotated only when it has its own ##/### heading or is the first cell of a table row — a mention in prose does not satisfy it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 75 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 604b0850ab15

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-notes is a command published in the GitHub repository arc-mcp/arc-1 (174 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 864 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.