api-changelog-versioning

api-changelog-versioning is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts. It costs 38 tokens per session (537 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to recording API changes, including new features, deprecations, breaking changes, and steps for moving between versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write API changelogs, breaking-change notices, version comparisons, deprecation notes, and migration guides.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand what changed and update code without guessing which old behavior or endpoint no longer works.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to write API changelogs, breaking-change notices, version comparisons, deprecation notes, and migration guides.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/api-changelog-versioning
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.

Any agent
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill api-changelog-versioning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 537 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 16 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 16 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00038 $0.00537
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00215
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00054

Measured 2mo ago against content hash b4e0aad7002a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-changelog-versioning 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate-api.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/api-changelog-versioning/SKILL.md · 88 lines

What it actually says

API Changelog & Versioning

Table of Contents

Overview

Create comprehensive API changelogs that document changes, deprecations, breaking changes, and provide migration guides for API consumers.

When to Use

  • API version changelogs
  • Breaking changes documentation
  • Migration guides between versions
  • Deprecation notices
  • API upgrade guides
  • Backward compatibility notes
  • Version comparison

Quick Start

  • Version comparison
# API Changelog

## Version 3.0.0 - 2025-01-15

### 🚨 Breaking Changes

#### Authentication Method Changed

**Previous (v2):**

```http
GET /api/users
Authorization: Token abc123
```

## Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the `references/` directory:

| Guide | Contents |
|---|---|
| [🚨 Breaking Changes](references/breaking-changes.md) | 🚨 Breaking Changes |
| [✨ New Features](references/new-features.md) | ✨ New Features |
| [🔧 Improvements](references/improvements.md) | 🔧 Improvements |
| [🔒 Security](references/security.md) | 🔒 Security, 🗑️ Deprecated, 📊 Version Support Policy |
| [Step 1: Update Base URL](references/step-1-update-base-url.md) | Step 1: Update Base URL, Step 2: Migrate Authentication, Step 3: Update Response Parsing, Step 4: Update Error Handling (+2 more) |

## Best Practices

### ✅ DO

- Clearly mark breaking changes
- Provide migration guides with code examples
- Include before/after comparisons
- Document deprecation timelines
- Show impact on existing implementations
- Provide SDKs for major versions
- Use semantic versioning
- Give advance notice (3-6 months)
- Maintain backward compatibility when possible
- Document version support policy

### ❌ DON'T

- Make breaking changes without notice
- Remove endpoints without deprecation period
- Skip migration examples
- Forget to version your API
- Change behavior without documentation
- Rush deprecations
Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 88 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A b4e0aad7002a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-changelog-versioning is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts (376 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 537 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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