create-release-notes

create-release-notes is a skill for Claude Code from atman-33/workhub. It costs 71 tokens per session (663 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for writing user-facing release notes from the changes between two Git references, such as versions or commits. Release notes explain what changed in software in terms users can understand.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to summarize features, behavior changes, performance improvements, breaking changes, and deprecations for a release.
Why use it?
It filters out internal implementation details and turns development history into a concise announcement of visible fixes and features.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the authoring plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to summarize features, behavior changes, performance improvements, breaking changes, and deprecations for a release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/atman-33/workhub/create-release-notes
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 atman-33/workhub --skill create-release-notes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/atman-33/workhub

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install authoring, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 663 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.
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 $0.00071 $0.00663
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00331
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00066

Measured 3d ago against content hash 69c61141d80a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-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 3d 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.

plugins/authoring/skills/create-release-notes/SKILL.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Release Notes

Release notes are for users of the software, not its developers — that distinction drives every step. A developer changelog (exhaustive, technical, commit-shaped) belongs to whatever release procedure the repository itself defines; this skill produces the announcement.

Steps

  1. Determine the range. Default: latest tag → HEAD (git describe --tags --abbrev=0). The user's explicit range or tag pair overrides. If no tag exists, ask what "since the last release" means here.

  2. Collect the changes. git log <from>..<to> --pretty='%h %s%n%b'. Where commits are thin, enrich from merged PR titles/bodies (gh pr list --state merged --search <sha> — best-effort; skip silently if gh is unavailable).

  3. Filter for user visibility. Keep what a user can see or feel: features, fixes to behavior, performance, breaking changes, deprecations. Drop refactors, CI, tests, docs-tooling, dependency bumps — unless one has a user-visible consequence (e.g. a dependency bump that fixes a vulnerability), in which case describe the consequence, not the bump.

    • Completion criterion: every commit in the range is either represented in a note or consciously dropped as internal — not silently lost.
  4. Write the notes. In the language the release audience reads (ask if unclear). Rules:

    • Lead with the highlights: 1–3 sentences on what this release is about.
    • Sections in impact order: Breaking changes (with migration steps) → NewImprovedFixed.
    • Each item names the user benefit, not the implementation ("Search now matches partial words", not "Refactored tokenizer").
    • No commit hashes or internal ticket ids in the body; keep a collapsed "full changelog" link/line at the end instead.
  5. Deliver. Show the draft in chat. If the user wants a file, write where they say (convention: docs/releases/<version>.md); if they want it on a GitHub release, gh release create <tag> --notes-file <file> (or gh release edit) — confirm before creating anything public.

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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. 3d ago First seen · 54 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 69c61141d80a

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create-release-notes is a skill published in the GitHub repository atman-33/workhub (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 663 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.