add-to-changelog

add-to-changelog is a cursor rule for Cursor from steipete/agent-rules. It costs 260 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for adding a dated entry to a project's CHANGELOG.md file, which records changes released in each version.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record added, changed, deprecated, removed, fixed, or security-related changes using the Keep a Changelog structure.
Why use it?
It keeps release notes grouped by version and change type instead of leaving updates scattered or inconsistently formatted.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

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 rules/steipete/agent-rules/add-to-changelog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/steipete/agent-rules

Made for: Cursor.

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.

agentmods badge for add-to-changelog

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/steipete/agent-rules/add-to-changelog"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/steipete/agent-rules/add-to-changelog.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 260 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 260 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 5.1 $0.00260 $0.00260
Opus 5 $0.00130 $0.00130
Sonnet 5 $0.00052 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00026 $0.00026

Measured 6d ago against content hash 6f2b6a7ba8a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-to-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 6d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

project-rules/add-to-changelog.mdc · 30 lines

What it actually says

Add to Changelog

Update the project's CHANGELOG.md file with a new entry.

Usage:

/add-to-changelog <version> <change_type> <message>

Parameters:

  • <version>: Version number (e.g., "1.1.0")
  • <change_type>: One of: "added", "changed", "deprecated", "removed", "fixed", "security"
  • <message>: Description of the change

Examples:

  • /add-to-changelog 1.1.0 added "New markdown to BlockDoc conversion feature"
  • /add-to-changelog 1.0.2 fixed "Bug in HTML renderer causing incorrect output"

Steps:

  1. Check for existing CHANGELOG.md or create if missing
  2. Find or create section for the specified version
  3. Add the new entry under the appropriate change type
  4. Format according to Keep a Changelog conventions
  5. Write the updated changelog back to file
  6. Optionally commit the changes with appropriate message

Format:

Follow Keep a Changelog format:

  • Group changes by type
  • List changes as bullet points
  • Include date for version sections
  • Keep entries concise but descriptive
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. 6d ago First seen · 30 lines · 260 tokens per session scan A 6f2b6a7ba8a5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

add-to-changelog is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository steipete/agent-rules (5,693 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 260 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 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 2026-08-30.

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