dart-changelog

dart-changelog is a command for Claude Code from dartsim/dart. It costs 16 tokens per session (2,026 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-2-Clause.

A workflow for deciding whether a code change needs a changelog entry, then drafting, finalizing, or auditing that entry. A changelog records user-visible changes in each software release.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for maintaining CHANGELOG.md entries before or after a pull request and checking release sections for omissions or excess detail.
Why use it?
It prevents release notes from being missing, duplicated, or more detailed than the project’s guidelines require.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Good fit It is for maintaining CHANGELOG.md entries before or after a pull request and checking release sections for omissions or excess detail.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/dartsim/dart/dart-changelog
About the project

DART is an open-source C++23 physics engine that simulates the movement and interactions of articulated rigid-body systems for robotics, animation, and machine learning. Researchers and developers use it for kinematics, dynamics, collision handling, constraints, and loading robot models, with C++ and Python interfaces. The catalogue add-ons support workflows built around this engine.

dartsim/dart · 1,223 stars · on GitHub · dart.readthedocs.io

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dartsim/dart

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,026 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00016 $0.02026
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00810
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00405
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00203

Measured 11d ago against content hash 6767b1218075, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dart-changelog 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 11d 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/dart-changelog.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Maintain DART changelog entries: $ARGUMENTS

Purpose

dart-changelog is the reusable changelog decision and writing routine. It is usually invoked by other DART workflows when they reach a changelog decision, not directly by users.

Use it to:

  • decide whether a change needs a changelog entry;
  • draft an entry at the right level of detail;
  • add a PR link after publication;
  • audit pending fragments or a release section for missing or over-detailed entries; or
  • assemble main's fragments at a checkpoint.

On main, an entry is a changelog.d/ fragment and only checkpoint assembly adds entries to CHANGELOG.md; release-* branches edit CHANGELOG.md directly. Keep style, placement, evidence, and release-note density aligned with docs/onboarding/changelog.md.

Required Reading

@AGENTS.md @docs/onboarding/changelog.md @docs/onboarding/release-management.md @changelog.d/README.md

Modes

Interpret $ARGUMENTS as one of these modes when present:

  • decide: determine whether the current change needs a changelog entry and record the reason in author/task notes when no entry is needed.
  • draft: write or revise the entry before a PR number exists: a changelog.d/<topic>.md fragment on main, a CHANGELOG.md entry on a release-* branch.
  • finalize: add the PR link line to the fragment (or release-branch entry) or adjust the entry after a PR exists, keeping the follow-up local until explicit maintainer/user approval permits a push.
  • audit: scan pending changelog.d/ fragments, a CHANGELOG.md release section, or a PR set for missing, duplicate, over-detailed, misplaced, or stale entries.
  • release-audit: alias for audit when the caller is finalizing a release section as part of release packaging (see docs/onboarding/release-management.md).
  • assemble: at a checkpoint (each milestone exit, before a release candidate, tag, or release-branch cut from main, or when the maintainer asks), run pixi run changelog-assemble on a topic branch from fresh origin/main, then release-audit the assembled section. Its PR still needs explicit maintainer/user approval before it is opened.

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 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.

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  8. 2mo ago First seen · 140 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 516bc02c0e5a

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dart-changelog is a command published in the GitHub repository dartsim/dart (1,223 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed BSD-2-Clause. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 2,026 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-01.

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