release-change-analyzer

release-change-analyzer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE. It costs 38 tokens per session (659 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A release-analysis tool that compares the current code with the latest published version and describes the actual changes. It also recommends whether the version should be a major, minor, or patch release.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before publishing to inspect diffs, group changes by type, and choose an appropriate version increase.
Why use it?
It prevents release decisions and notes from relying only on commit messages, which may not accurately describe the code that changed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it before publishing to inspect diffs, group changes by type, and choose an appropriate version increase.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arabelatso/skills-4-se/release-change-analyzer
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 ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE --skill release-change-analyzer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE

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 659 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 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 $0.00659
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00329
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00066

Measured 9d ago against content hash b885c309ced4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-change-analyzer 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 9d 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.

skills/release-change-analyzer/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Change Analyzer

Analyzes unpublished changes by comparing HEAD with the latest published version. Reads actual diffs instead of just copying commit messages.

When to Use This Skill

  • Before publishing a new release
  • Deciding between major/minor/patch version bump
  • Writing accurate release notes based on real code changes
  • Reviewing what changed since last deployment

What This Skill Does

Step 1: Identify Published Version

# npm
npm view <package-name> version 2>/dev/null || echo "not published"

# PyPI
pip index versions <package-name> 2>/dev/null | head -1

# Or use git tags
git tag --sort=-v:refname | head -1

Step 2: Analyze Real Changes

# Get actual diff (NOT just commit messages)
git diff v{published-version}..HEAD --stat
git diff v{published-version}..HEAD

For each commit, MUST:

  1. Read the actual diff to understand WHAT CHANGED
  2. Describe the REAL change in plain language
  3. Explain WHY it matters (if not obvious)

Step 3: Group and Report

## Unpublished Changes (v{published} -> HEAD)

### Features
| Scope | What Changed |
|-------|--------------|
| auth | Added OAuth2 support with Google and GitHub providers |

### Fixes
| Scope | What Changed |
|-------|--------------|
| api | Fixed race condition in concurrent request handling |

### Refactoring
| Scope | What Changed |
|-------|--------------|
| core | Extracted retry logic from 3 services into shared module |

### Breaking Changes
- Removed deprecated `v1/login` endpoint

### Files Changed
42 files changed, 1205 insertions(+), 387 deletions(-)

### Suggested Version Bump
- **Recommendation**: minor
- **Reason**: New features added, no breaking changes in public API

Version Bump Decision

Condition Bump
Breaking changes in public API major
New features, no breaking changes minor
Bug fixes, refactoring, docs only patch

Anti-Patterns

  • Copying commit messages verbatim — read the actual diff
  • Describing "what" without "why" — explain impact
  • Missing breaking changes — always check public API surface
  • Guessing at scope — verify from the diff

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 98 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A b885c309ced4

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release-change-analyzer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE (252 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 659 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 2026-09-03.

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