changelog

changelog is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bostonaholic/team. It costs 26 tokens per session (705 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for writing CHANGELOG.md, a file that records important project changes for users. It follows Keep a Changelog conventions and groups entries such as new, changed, deprecated, and fixed items.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or updating changelog entries, choosing the right change category, and writing short, plain-language release notes.
Why use it?
It keeps release notes focused on changes users can understand instead of internal developer activity. This makes it easier to see how a project update affects someone using it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: user-invocable in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the team plugin — 92 skills, 13 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when adding or updating changelog entries, choosing the right change category, and writing short, plain-language release notes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bostonaholic/team/changelog
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 bostonaholic/team --skill changelog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bostonaholic/team

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 92 skills, 13 agents, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bostonaholic/team/changelog/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/bostonaholic/team/changelog)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 705 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 $0.00026 $0.00705
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00352
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00071

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2f61d8f29f9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

changelog 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 4d 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/changelog/SKILL.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Changelog

Maintain a curated user-facing CHANGELOG.md under Keep a Changelog. Every entry answers “How does this affect me?” Create the root file if missing.

Write at seventh-grade, STE-flavored level. Before finalizing, call the Skill tool with writing-prose and apply its ## Self-lint.

Structure

All changes stay under ## [Unreleased] until an explicit release. Each bullet belongs to exactly one of Added, Changed, Deprecated, Removed, Fixed, or Security; always document vulnerability fixes. On release only, rename it using [X.Y.Z] - YYYY-MM-DD as ## [X.Y.Z] - YYYY-MM-DD and add a new empty [Unreleased] above it. Read references/format-and-examples.md when creating the file or choosing a section.

Candidate selection

Before classifying commits, read references/baseline-and-filter.md and execute its baseline commands. Every commit after the most recent release is a candidate; if no versioned heading exists, use the root commit. Read ambiguous diffs; never classify from an unclear subject.

Include every feat:, fix:, perf:, BREAKING CHANGE:, and security: or security-related fix. Exclude internal-only chore:, test:, refactor:, docs:, ci:, revert:, WIP, fixup, and merge commits. A dependency or docs-only change earns an entry only when users experience the result; describe that result. If a feature and its revert occur in one release, include neither.

Ship-phase procedure

  1. Read [Unreleased]; skip every change already covered. An unchanged second run writes nothing.
  2. Find the baseline, list later commits, inspect ambiguous diffs, and apply the filter.
  3. Merge commits that implement one user-visible change into one bullet. Sort each section by user impact.
  4. Commit the changelog with the code it documents. If nothing survives, leave CHANGELOG.md untouched and report that result.

Rules

  • Describe user-observable results, never implementation details. One user-visible change gets one short bullet of one or two sentences.
  • Never duplicate an entry; reruns are idempotent.
  • Write in past tense: “Added X,” not “Add X.”
  • Use absolute URLs for links because released sections become GitHub release notes. Use https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>/blob/<default-branch>/<path> or published docs; never repository-relative links. Bare #anchors and mailto: are allowed.
  • Relative [versioning](docs/versioning.md) links break in release notes; replace them with full https://… URLs.
  • A changelog rebase conflict keeps both: branch entries remain under [Unreleased], above the base’s newest ## [X.Y.Z]; every dated base section remains unchanged.
  • Always update [Unreleased]. Never create a versioned section unless the user explicitly requests a release.

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 4d ago Changed · -190 lines · -3 tokens per session 2f61d8f29f9c
  2. 6d ago Changed · +6 lines 9770c45fb5c0
  3. 9d ago First seen · 223 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A e3d74fcae58d

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changelog is a skill published in the GitHub repository bostonaholic/team (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 705 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.