summarize-change-log

summarize-change-log is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CiscoDevNet/essentials. It costs 70 tokens per session (749 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A formatter for turning commit logs, squash messages, or change descriptions into one to five GitHub-ready Markdown bullets using Conventional Commits, a standard format for commit subjects.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps write squash-merge messages, pull-request summaries, and concise descriptions of what changed and why.
Why use it?
It removes the effort of condensing a long history into a clear merge or pull-request summary while keeping the required subject format.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps write squash-merge messages, pull-request summaries, and concise descriptions of what changed and why.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ciscodevnet/essentials/summarize-change-log
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/ciscodevnet/essentials/summarize-change-log
Any agent
npx skills add CiscoDevNet/essentials --skill summarize-change-log
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/essentials

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 749 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 $0.00070 $0.00749
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00375
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00075

Measured yesterday against content hash 812b53f7209a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

summarize-change-log 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/test_validate_summary.py, scripts/validate_summary.py, scripts/validate-summary.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/ess/summarize-change-log/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Summarize Change Log

Turn a long git log, squash message draft, or PR narrative into 1–5 copy-paste markdown bullets for a GitHub merge commit or extended description.

Output format

Return only markdown bullets. No preamble, no section headings unless the user asks.

- **type(scope): subject** — One sentence: what changed and why it matters.
  • 1 to 5 bullets, never more than 5.
  • Preserve Co-authored-by: footers from the input only if present; place after bullets with a blank line before them.

Subject rules

Follow Conventional Commits 1.0.0:

  • Format: <type>[optional scope]: <description> — imperative mood, lowercase type.
  • Types: feat, fix, docs, refactor, perf, test, build, ci, chore.
  • Entire subject ≤ 50 characters (type, scope, colon, space, description).
  • Scope matches the primary area (langsmith-client, azure-ai, hello-agent).

What changed, not process

Every subject must state what changed. Ban vague/process subjects:

Bad Good
address PR #513 review comments fix(langsmith-client): defer delete confirm
port docs from #510 docs(langsmith-client): document --deployment
follow up on review fix(hello-agent): align listener id messaging

Consolidation (>5 input commits)

  1. Group by scope + intent; merge overlapping fixes.
  2. Keep distinct areas separate (infra vs CLI vs docs).
  3. If still >5, drop least user-visible items; fold detail into a bullet body.

Validation (required)

Before returning output, run from this skill's directory:

scripts/validate-summary.sh /tmp/draft-summary.md

Or validate the checked-in fixture:

scripts/validate-summary.sh \
  examples-good.md

Or pipe stdin:

printf '%s\n' '- **fix: short subject** — Details.' \
  | scripts/validate-summary.sh

The script enforces:

  • 1–5 bullets in the expected format
  • uv run cz check -m … -l 50 (explicit 50-char limit; config alone is not applied without -l)
  • Vague-subject blocklist

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. yesterday First seen · 92 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 812b53f7209a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

summarize-change-log is a skill published in the GitHub repository CiscoDevNet/essentials (7 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 749 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 2026-09-04.

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