creating-version-notes

creating-version-notes is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from apache/struts. It costs 64 tokens per session (5,320 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A process for writing Apache Struts release notes that explain changes, upgrade risks, and migration information for each version.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing version-notes pages, migration-guide entries, GitHub release notes, and test-build announcements.
Why use it?
It prevents release documentation from being copied with old version details or manually re-created incorrectly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

Apache Struts is an open-source Java web framework that helps developers build applications using the Model-View-Controller pattern, separating data and business logic from page presentation and request handling. Java developers use it to create dynamic web applications with interactive forms and database-backed behavior. The catalogue's skills, instructions, and setting support work with Struts projects.

apache/struts · 1,366 stars · on GitHub

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/apache/struts/creating-version-notes
Any agent
npx skills add apache/struts --skill creating-version-notes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apache/struts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,320 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 $0.00064 $0.05320
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.02660
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.01064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00532

Measured yesterday against content hash 592530bc0c54, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creating-version-notes 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.

.claude/skills/creating-version-notes/SKILL.md · 330 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 330 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Creating Version Notes

Overview

A Version Notes page answers one question for a user deciding whether to upgrade: what changed in this release, and what will break. Almost all of it is a mechanical rendering of a JIRA fix version onto fixed boilerplate.

Core principle: the mechanical parts must be derived, never retyped; the two judgement parts — Breaking changes, and how a security fix is described — are the only places you author prose.

One skill covers every maintenance line. 6.x and 7.x pages share an identical structure. The line changes the data (version, prior page, JIRA ids), never the process.

This is phase 3 of a seven-phase release. releasing-struts holds the sequence, the gates and the mechanics either side of it; this skill owns the paperwork.

The Iron Rule

START FROM THE TEMPLATE. NEVER CLONE THE PREVIOUS VERSION NOTES PAGE.

Cloning is how the published pages acquired their defects, and it fails differently every time:

Page Inherited defect
Version Notes 6.9.0 Issue Detail links "JIRA Release Notes 6.8.0" — label and version= id both from 6.8.0
Version Notes 6.10.0 Issue List links "Struts 6.9.0 DONE" — label names the previous release, against a filter= id different from the one the 6.9.0 page used
Both series Maven Dependency code macro carries ac:name="" instead of ac:name="language"

Half-updated links are the signature failure: the number gets fixed and the label doesn't, or the reverse. They survive review because the link still works — it just points at, or claims to be, the wrong release.

version-notes-template.md is the source of truth: field guidance, storage-format skeleton with those defects corrected, and the pre-publication checklist.

Collect every input before writing

Each row is derived from a named source. A value you cannot source is a visible placeholder, never a guess.

Input Where it comes from
Version The release being voted or announced
Parent page Always Migration Guide (page id 13981) — every Version Notes page is a child of it
Prior notes page title The previous released version in the same series — see below
JIRA version id Numeric id behind ReleaseNote.jspa?version= — from the WW project's versions, not the version name
DONE filter id The saved JIRA filter for this release; a new release needs a new filter
Issue list project = WW AND fixVersion = <version>, grouped by type
Breaking changes Authored — see below
Staging Repository block An explicit decision — see below

Read the full file on GitHub · 330 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. yesterday First seen · 330 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 592530bc0c54

Subscribe to this mod's changes

creating-version-notes is a skill published in the GitHub repository apache/struts (1,366 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 5,320 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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