changeset

Guidance for deciding whether a code change needs a changeset, a short release-note file that records user-visible changes, and for choosing its release level.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after changes to a CLI, library, parser, formatter, linter, diagnostic, or assist to classify the change and create the required .changeset Markdown file.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from missing release notes or assigning the wrong patch, minor, or major version impact.

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/biomejs/biome/changeset
Any agent
npx skills add biomejs/biome --skill changeset
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/biomejs/biome

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 723 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 $0.00054 $0.00723
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00362
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00072

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1aaf64cff074, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

changeset 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/changeset/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Changesets

Changesets describe user-visible behavior for release notes. Root AGENTS.md defines when automated contributions require one; CONTRIBUTING.md is canonical for package selection, versioning, branch targets, and prose format.

Decide Whether One Is Required

A changeset is required for behavior visible to users of the CLI, libraries, published crates, diagnostics, parser, formatter, linter, or assists.

No changeset is needed for an internal refactor with identical behavior, tests only, CI/build maintenance, or documentation-only edits.

Before opening a PR, explicitly confirm the user-facing classification as required by AGENTS.md. Do not infer user visibility only from the files changed.

Choose the Release Level

Change Level Target
Bug fix or non-breaking behavior correction patch main
New nursery lint rule patch main
New user-facing feature or nursery promotion minor next
Breaking user API change major next

Nursery rules are the exception to the usual new-feature mapping because they do not follow semantic versioning. Verify unusual cases against the current versioning policy.

Create the File

Run just new-changeset-empty to generate an empty file.

just new-changeset-empty

An empty generated entry starts with frontmatter delimiters. Replace that frontmatter with the package and release level rather than appending a second block:

---
"@biomejs/biome": patch
---

Description.

Use #### or ##### for headings inside a longer entry. Other heading levels interfere with changelog generation.

Write the Entry

  • Describe user-visible behavior, not implementation.
  • Use one to three sentences unless the impact genuinely needs an example.
  • Use past tense for the contribution and present tense for resulting Biome behavior.
  • Start bug fixes with the linked issue when one exists.
  • Link rule and assist names to their Biome website pages.
  • End every sentence with a full stop.

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 2d ago First seen · 83 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 1aaf64cff074

Subscribe to this mod's changes

changeset is a skill published in the GitHub repository biomejs/biome (25,686 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 723 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 2026-08-30.

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