changelog-protocol

changelog-protocol is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Abilityai/cornelius. It costs 35 tokens per session (517 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for documenting important sessions that change or analyze an Obsidian knowledge base.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after vault operations, discovery work, insight extraction, or other significant agent sessions.
Why use it?
It creates a dated record of what happened, what was discovered, and what should happen next.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/abilityai/cornelius/changelog-protocol
Any agent
npx skills add Abilityai/cornelius --skill changelog-protocol
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/cornelius

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 517 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 $0.00035 $0.00517
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00259
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00052

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6b66bc5d5746, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

changelog-protocol 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.

.claude/skills/changelog-protocol/SKILL.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

Changelog Protocol

All sub-agents MUST create separate dated changelog files after each significant session.

File Location & Naming

  • Directory: Brain/05-Meta/Changelogs/
  • Naming Format: CHANGELOG - [Session Type] YYYY-MM-DD.md
  • Examples:
    • CHANGELOG - Auto-Discovery Sessions 2025-10-25.md
    • CHANGELOG - Connection Discovery Session 2025-10-24.md
    • CHANGELOG - Vault Management Session 2025-10-26.md
    • CHANGELOG - Insight Extraction Session 2025-10-27.md

Timestamp Requirements

MANDATORY: Before starting any session, call:

date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z'

Include this timestamp at the top of the changelog file. Use the date from this command in the filename.

Changelog Content Structure

Each changelog file must include:

  1. Session header with date, time, and session type
  2. Session overview with key statistics
  3. Major discoveries/connections/changes documented in detail
  4. Emergent patterns or meta-insights
  5. Synthesis opportunities identified
  6. Session statistics (notes analyzed, connections found, etc.)
  7. Recommended next actions

When to Create Changelogs

Agent Trigger
Auto-Discovery Agent After every discovery session (mandatory)
Connection Finder Agent After every connection mapping session (mandatory)
Vault Manager Agent After significant CRUD operations affecting 3+ notes
Insight Extractor Agent After extracting insights from significant content

Dual Logging System

  • Dated files: Individual session logs in /05-Meta/Changelogs/ folder (primary, detailed)
  • Master CHANGELOG.md: Summary entries in /Brain/CHANGELOG.md (secondary, brief)

The dated changelog files are the primary record - comprehensive and detailed. The master CHANGELOG.md serves as a quick reference index with brief entries pointing to the detailed session files.

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 · 57 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 6b66bc5d5746

Subscribe to this mod's changes

changelog-protocol is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/cornelius (106 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 517 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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