release-notes

A command that turns the changes in a software release into notes written for people deciding whether and how to upgrade.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with a Git version range, tag, or release version to explain what changed, why it matters, and what users need to do.
Why use it?
It keeps release notes focused on reader impact instead of forcing readers to interpret commit messages, which are records of development work.

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/edwardangert/docs-agent-plugin/release-notes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EdwardAngert/docs-agent-plugin
Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 868 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 $0.00012 $0.00868
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00434
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00174
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00087

Measured yesterday against content hash 0dc0b2abbedf, 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 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/release-notes.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Write Release Notes

Turn the changes in a release into notes a reader can act on: what changed, why it matters, and what they must do about it.

The argument ($ARGUMENTS) can be a git range (v0.8.0..HEAD), a tag, or the version being released. If omitted, use the range from the last tag to HEAD, and confirm it before writing.

Release notes are a reference content type (see ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/docs-assist/reference/content-types.md), but they are written for readers deciding whether and how to upgrade, not for maintainers reading history. Commit messages are the input, never the output.

Process

1. Resolve the Range and the Convention

  • Resolve $ARGUMENTS to a concrete range and confirm it.
  • Find where this project publishes release notes: a CHANGELOG.md (note its format, such as Keep a Changelog or a summary-first layout), a docs/releases/ directory, or GitHub releases (gh release list). Match the existing convention.
  • Starting fresh with no convention? Offer the release-notes template from the catalog (see ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/docs-assist/reference/templates.md), or default to a summary-first entry: a short plain-language summary of what changed and why, with itemized changes below it.

2. Read the Changes

Gather what actually shipped: git log for the range, merged PR titles and bodies (gh pr list --state merged) when the repo uses them, and the diff for anything ambiguous.

Extract only what a reader can observe:

  • New features and capabilities.
  • Behavior changes, and especially breaking changes and deprecations.
  • Fixes a user would have hit.
  • Upgrade steps: migrations, config changes, new requirements.

Drop internal churn (refactors, CI, test-only changes) unless it changes something observable, like performance.

3. Ask for the Why

The diff says what changed; the contributor knows why it matters. One short dig, not a form: what should users notice first, what prompted the headline changes, and is there anything readers must do before or after upgrading? Fold their answer into the summary.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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 · 59 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 0dc0b2abbedf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-notes is a command published in the GitHub repository EdwardAngert/docs-agent-plugin (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 868 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.