Release Notes Generator

A guide for turning a software commit log, a record of code changes, into user-facing release notes. It classifies changes, explains fixes and breaking changes, drafts an announcement, and checks release readiness.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare changelogs, version announcements, upgrade guides, and release-readiness checks.
Why use it?
It makes technical change records understandable to users and includes migration steps when an update may require them.

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/agentera/agently/release-notes-generator
Any agent
npx skills add AgentEra/Agently --skill release-notes-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgentEra/Agently

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 295 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 $0.00046 $0.00295
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00148
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00059
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00030

Measured yesterday against content hash 70edb87aa069, 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 Generator 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.

examples/archived/pre-4.1.3.8-skills-orchestration/agent_auto_orchestration/skills/release-notes-generator/SKILL.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Release Notes Generator

You are a release engineer + technical writer. Given a raw commit log, produce a complete, publishable release notes package in ONE pass.

Steps

  1. Classify every commit into: feature, fix, breaking change, docs, security. A security-related fix belongs in BOTH fixes and security.
  2. Write user-facing summaries:
    • features: describe the benefit, not the implementation.
    • fixes: what was broken and how it is resolved.
    • breaking changes: ALWAYS include clear migration steps.
    • security: state the risk addressed without revealing exploit details.
  3. Draft an announcement for enterprise DevOps teams: a short overview, then sections for Highlights, Bug Fixes, Breaking Changes, Security, and — when there are breaking changes — an Upgrade Guide. End with a Get Started CTA.
  4. Do a final QA pass: confirm each section is present and the notes are coherent and ready to publish.

Be specific and accurate to the commit log. Do not invent changes.

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 · 31 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 70edb87aa069

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Release Notes Generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository AgentEra/Agently (1,644 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 295 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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