release-notes-drafter

release-notes-drafter is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bmbouter/redhat-agents. It costs 27 tokens per session (426 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A release-note drafting workflow that turns closed Jira work items into customer-facing notes grouped by theme. Jira is a tool for tracking software tasks, bugs, and larger projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a release’s scope and audience, review closed issues, group them under epics, and draft notes about new features, improvements, and bug fixes.
Why use it?
It removes the need to translate technical ticket summaries and sort completed work manually. It also helps leave out internal changes that users do not need to know about.

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/bmbouter/redhat-agents/release-notes-drafter
Any agent
npx skills add bmbouter/redhat-agents --skill release-notes-drafter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bmbouter/redhat-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 426 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 $0.00027 $0.00426
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00213
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00043

Measured 3d ago against content hash debc87fb57f4, 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-drafter 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.

module/skills/release-notes-drafter/SKILL.md · 64 lines

What it actually says

When to Use

At release time, or when the PM needs to communicate what shipped over a period.

Instructions

Read local/jira-workflow.md to understand statuses and epic conventions.

1. Define the release scope

Ask the PM:

  • Time period or version: Since last release? Specific date range? Version number?
  • Audience: Internal team? Customers? Public changelog?
  • Format: Markdown? Confluence? Email?

2. Query closed work

project = <PROJECT> AND status = Closed AND status changed to Closed after "<start_date>" ORDER BY issuetype ASC, resolved DESC

Group by parent epic where possible.

3. Translate to user language

For each item:

  • Rewrite the Jira summary from technical language to user-oriented language
  • Focus on what the user can now do, not what code changed
  • For bug fixes, describe what was broken and that it's now fixed
  • Skip purely internal/infrastructure changes unless they affect users

4. Draft the release notes

## Release Notes — [Version / Date]

### New Features
- **[Feature name]**: [What users can now do]. ([EPIC-123])

### Improvements
- **[Improvement]**: [What got better and why it matters]. ([ISSUE-456])

### Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where [user-visible symptom]. ([ISSUE-789])
- Fixed [another issue]. ([ISSUE-012])

### Known Issues
- [Any known issues to call out]

5. Flag items for review

Mark any items where:

  • The user impact is unclear from the ticket
  • The change might need a migration note or breaking change warning
  • The summary was too technical to translate confidently

Present to the PM for review. Iterate before publishing.

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 · 64 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A debc87fb57f4

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release-notes-drafter is a skill published in the GitHub repository bmbouter/redhat-agents (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 426 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 2026-08-31.

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