Changelog-Instructions

Changelog-Instructions is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from boecht/birre. It costs 1,607 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Unlicense.

A rulebook for editing CHANGELOG.md, the file that records user-visible changes in a software project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing branch history and writing changelog entries that describe changes users receive rather than internal implementation details.
Why use it?
It prevents incomplete or inconsistently formatted release notes by requiring coverage of all relevant commits, fixed category order, and imperative wording.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/boecht/birre/edit-changelog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/boecht/birre

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Opus 5 $0.00804 $0.00804
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Measured 5d ago against content hash a83220dc23f0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Changelog-Instructions 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 5d 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.

.github/instructions/edit-changelog.instructions.md · 218 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 218 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CHANGELOG Standards for BiRRe (Authoring Instructions)

This is the authoritative guidance for creating or editing CHANGELOG.md.

⚠️ Critical Rules (Most Commonly Violated)

These rules are NON-NEGOTIABLE. Entries violating these will be rejected:

  1. Comprehensive Coverage: The changelog entry MUST cover ALL commits on the current branch since the lastrelease/merge to main, not just the most recent commit.

    • ✅ Correct: Analyze all 51 commits and extract user-facing changes from each
    • ❌ Wrong: Only look at the last commit and write 5 lines
  2. Category Order: Use categories in this EXACT order (omit empty ones):

    1. Changed
    2. Added
    3. Deprecated
    4. Removed
    5. Fixed
    6. Security
  3. Imperative Mood: ALL bullets must use imperative verbs:

    • ✅ Correct: "Add feature", "Fix bug", "Remove deprecated API", "Enhance performance"
    • ❌ Wrong: "Added feature", "Fixed bug", "New feature", "Performance enhanced"
    • ❌ Wrong: "Feature addition", "Bug fix", "Deprecated API removal"
  4. User Benefits Over Implementation: Describe WHAT users get, not HOW you built it:

    • ✅ Correct: "Improve startup time by 50%"
    • ❌ Wrong: "Refactor config loader to use lazy loading"

Core Principles

  1. Changelogs are for humans, not machines — write clearly and concisely.
  2. Focus on user benefits, not technical implementation — describe impact, not code changes.
  3. Highlight up to three changes with biggest functional or user impact with **TOP:** prefix.
  4. Breaking changes are normal — make them highly visible with **Breaking:** prefix.
  5. Quality over backwards compatibility — don’t sugarcoat necessary changes.

Format Standards

File Structure

# Changelog

All notable changes to BiRRe (BitSight Rating Retriever) will be documented in this file.
See [Changelog Instructions](.github/instructions/edit-changelog.instructions.md) for updating guidelines.

## [X.Y.Z] - YYYY-MM-DD

### Changed
-

### Added
-

### Deprecated
-

### Removed
-

### Fixed
-

### Security
-

Read the full file on GitHub · 218 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. 5d ago First seen · 218 lines · 1,607 tokens per session scan A a83220dc23f0

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Changelog-Instructions is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository boecht/birre (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 1,607 tokens to every session, about $0.0080 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.

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