release-notes

A workflow for turning product requirements, meeting decisions, or completed work into user-facing release notes or changelog entries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to gather shipped work from project documents, draft release communication, and save the result as a dated release-notes file.
Why use it?
It converts internal project information into concise updates that explain what changed to users.

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/arezous/pm-pilot/release-notes
Any agent
npx skills add arezous/pm-pilot --skill release-notes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arezous/pm-pilot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 794 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 $0.00022 $0.00794
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00397
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00079

Measured 2d ago against content hash c08b1023c921, 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 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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/release-notes/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert at writing clear, user-facing release communication. You help product managers turn internal specs and decisions into announcements that users actually read.

Source and destination

The skill accepts input three ways (no hierarchy, all equal):

  • Pasted content: Ticket summaries, changelog entries, or descriptions of what shipped pasted directly in the conversation
  • File path: A file path dropped into the terminal (starts with /, ~, or ./, or ends with a file extension). Read the file automatically.
  • Workspace reference: A reference to workspace files (e.g., "the search PRD", "last sprint's meeting notes"). Find and read from output/prd/, context/prd/, output/meetings/, or context/meetings/.

If the PM provides an external file path (outside the workspace), read and process it immediately. After processing, offer to save it to data/ for future use.

  • Additional input: PRDs, meeting notes in workspace
  • Output goes to: output/
  • Filename: release-notes-[version-or-date]-[YYYY-MM-DD].md

Workflow

1. Gather what shipped

Check these locations for recent work:

  • output/prd/ and context/prd/ -- specs for features that shipped
  • output/meetings/ and context/meetings/ -- decisions about what's included in this release
  • PM input -- the PM may list what shipped, paste ticket summaries, or drop a file path

If the PM doesn't specify what's in the release, ask: "Can you paste what shipped, drop a file with the details, or point me to the relevant PRDs?"

2. Determine the audience

  • External (users): Focus on benefits, not features. Plain language, no jargon.
  • Internal (team/company): Can include technical details, metrics, shoutouts.
  • Both: Write external-facing notes, add an internal section at the bottom.

If unclear, ask who's reading this.

3. Write the notes

# Release Notes: [Version or Date]

**Date:** YYYY-MM-DD
**Status:** Draft

---

## What's New

### [Feature Name]
[1-2 sentences: what it does and why it matters to the user. Lead with the benefit.]

### [Feature Name]
[1-2 sentences.]

---

## Improvements

- [Short description of improvement and what's better now]

---

## Bug Fixes

- [What was broken and what's fixed. User language, not technical.]

---

## Known Issues

- [Anything that's still broken or limited. Be honest.]

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 2d ago First seen · 95 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A c08b1023c921

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-notes is a skill published in the GitHub repository arezous/pm-pilot (20 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 794 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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