init

A command for creating or repairing a project changelog, a file that records what has changed over time. It preserves existing history and records the project's current state when needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating CHANGELOG.md, adding a missing current-state section, or reporting an existing section without changing it.
Why use it?
It avoids losing prior release notes while adding a concise, evidence-based summary of the project's condition and next steps.

Command

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/dhananjay625/dev-workflow/init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dhananjay625/dev-workflow
Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 219 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 $0.00013 $0.00219
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00110
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00044
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00022

Measured yesterday against content hash 08513b56f95f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

init 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 yesterday.

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.

commands/init.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

Handle the project changelog, covering all three states:

  1. No CHANGELOG.md: create it from ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/CHANGELOG.template.md.
  2. CHANGELOG.md exists but has no ## Current state block (common on existing repos): PREPEND the Current state block from the template above the existing content. Never rewrite, reorder, or truncate the existing history - it stays byte-identical below the new block.
  3. CHANGELOG.md exists with a ## Current state block: do not modify it; report its content instead.

For cases 1 and 2, fill the block with the project's ACTUAL current state: inspect the repo briefly (README, entry points, one test run) and write WORKING / BROKEN-OPEN / NEXT STEP / OPEN DECISIONS / DO NOT with maximum density (exact paths, exact commands). Max 15 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. yesterday First seen · 19 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 08513b56f95f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

init is a command published in the GitHub repository Dhananjay625/dev-workflow (2 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 219 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.