release-notes-writer

release-notes-writer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE. It costs 122 tokens per session (2,272 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A release-documentation tool that turns git commits, pull requests, changelogs, and code changes into notes written for software users. Git is the system commonly used to track code changes and versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when preparing release notes, version announcements, or updates describing changes between software versions.
Why use it?
It removes the work of reading technical change history and rewriting it into a clear summary of what users need to know.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when preparing release notes, version announcements, or updates describing changes between software versions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arabelatso/skills-4-se/release-notes-writer
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-notes-writer
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 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,272 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 $0.00122 $0.02272
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.01136
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00454
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00227

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6687e21f7c65, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-notes-writer 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-notes-writer/SKILL.md · 368 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 368 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Notes Writer

Overview

Generate polished, user-facing release notes from git history, pull requests, and code changes, automatically categorizing and summarizing changes in a clear, accessible format.

Workflow

1. Gather Release Information

Collect the scope and sources for the release notes:

Define the release scope:

  • What version is being released? (e.g., v2.1.0)
  • What's the version range? (e.g., v2.0.0 to v2.1.0)
  • Which commits/PRs should be included?
  • Is this a major, minor, or patch release?

Quick commands to get started:

# Get commits since last tag
git log $(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)..HEAD --oneline

# Get commits between two tags
git log v2.0.0..v2.1.0 --oneline

# Get commits since specific date
git log --since="2024-01-01" --oneline

# List all tags
git tag -l

# Get merged PRs (if using GitHub)
gh pr list --state merged --limit 50

2. Extract Change Information

Gather details from available sources:

From Git Commits
# Get commit messages with details
git log v2.0.0..v2.1.0 --pretty=format:"%h - %s (%an)" --no-merges

# Get commits by author
git log v2.0.0..v2.1.0 --author="AuthorName" --oneline

# Get commit messages with full body
git log v2.0.0..v2.1.0 --format="%h %s%n%b%n"

Parse commit message conventions:

  • feat: or feature: → New Feature
  • fix: or bugfix: → Bug Fix
  • perf: or performance: → Performance Improvement
  • docs: or doc: → Documentation
  • refactor: → Code Quality/Refactoring
  • test: → Testing
  • chore: → Internal/Maintenance
  • BREAKING: or !: → Breaking Change
From Pull Requests

If using GitHub CLI:

# Get merged PRs
gh pr list --state merged --limit 100 --json number,title,body,labels,mergedAt

# Get PR details
gh pr view <PR-NUMBER>

Extract from PR:

  • Title (often more user-friendly than commit message)
  • Description (may contain user-facing summary)
  • Labels (feature, bug, breaking-change, etc.)
  • Linked issues

Read the full file on GitHub · 368 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 · 368 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 6687e21f7c65

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release-notes-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE (252 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 2,272 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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