release-notes

release-notes is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from buildkite/buildkite-mcp-server. It costs 47 tokens per session (622 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release-note drafting guide for GitHub, the code-hosting service, focused on versioned builds of this repository. It gathers changes and checks source details before producing maintainer-reviewed notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare, review, or revise a GitHub release for a specific version, including its changes, tool updates, and user-facing outcomes.
Why use it?
It avoids relying on pull request titles or incomplete local tags, which can lead to inaccurate release information. It also keeps release notes distinct from changelogs and ordinary pull request descriptions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

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/buildkite/buildkite-mcp-server/release-notes
Any agent
npx skills add buildkite/buildkite-mcp-server --skill release-notes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/buildkite/buildkite-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for release-notes

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/buildkite/buildkite-mcp-server/release-notes"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/buildkite/buildkite-mcp-server/release-notes.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 622 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 5.1 $0.00047 $0.00622
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00311
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00062

Measured yesterday against content hash 5d11c2cb8d84, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 yesterday.

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.

.agents/skills/release-notes/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release notes

Produce accurate, maintainer-reviewed GitHub release notes that follow the style of recent curated releases in this repository.

Gather evidence

  1. Confirm the target version and inspect its current GitHub release, if one exists.
  2. Identify the comparison base from the release series and verify the full comparison range. Do not rely only on locally fetched tags.
  3. Inspect a recent curated release, such as v1.19.0, for layout and level of detail. Treat it as a style reference, not a fixed template.
  4. Collect every pull request in the comparison range. Read the pull request descriptions and changed files for user-facing changes. Inspect source at the target tag when needed to verify tool names, arguments, defaults, limits, and behavior.

Use gh for GitHub data when available. Do not infer technical details from pull request titles alone.

Draft the release

Start with a short paragraph describing the most important user outcomes. Then use the following sections when they have relevant content:

  • ## What's Changed, with concise categories such as Features, Agent Guidance, Development and Evals, and Dependencies.
  • ## Tool Changes, describing new tools and material changes to existing tools in practical terms.
  • ## New Contributors, when applicable.
  • A **Full Changelog** comparison link as the final line.

For each pull request in What's Changed, preserve its title, author attribution, and URL. Ensure every pull request in the comparison range appears exactly once in those categorized lists. The narrative Tool Changes section may discuss the same work without repeating attribution.

Prefer concise, factual language. Focus on externally observable behavior and agent outcomes. Exclude implementation detail unless it explains a limit, compatibility constraint, or operational risk. Do not use em dashes.

Review and update

Always show the complete Markdown draft and stop. Wait for a new user response that explicitly approves that exact body before changing GitHub, even when the initial request asks to draft and update the release in one step. Approval to draft notes or general permission to update a release is not approval of the generated body. If the draft changes, present the complete revised Markdown and wait for approval again. After approval:

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. yesterday First seen · 65 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 5d11c2cb8d84

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-notes is a skill published in the GitHub repository buildkite/buildkite-mcp-server (53 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 622 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-05.

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