changelog-scan

changelog-scan is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cobusgreyling/loop-engineering. It costs 35 tokens per session (199 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that scans merged pull requests and commits since a chosen reference, such as the last release tag, and groups the changes by type.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a draft of release notes covering features, fixes, documentation, dependencies, breaking changes, and security items.
Why use it?
It gathers the information needed for release notes without requiring someone to review the project history manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the loop-engineering plugin — 15 skills, 2 agents shipped together

About the project

Loop Engineering is a collection of patterns, starter projects, and command-line tools for designing recurring workflows around AI coding agents. It is for developers who want agents to discover work, make changes, verify results, and preserve project state across tasks. The catalogue entries provide the project's reusable skills, agents, plugin, and instruction.

cobusgreyling/loop-engineering · 10,959 stars · on GitHub

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/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering/changelog-scan
Any agent
npx skills add cobusgreyling/loop-engineering --skill changelog-scan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install loop-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 2 agents.

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 changelog-scan

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering/changelog-scan"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering/changelog-scan.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 199 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 $0.00035 $0.00199
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00100
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00040
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00020

Measured 5d ago against content hash 9a7030ef2a16, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

changelog-scan 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 5d 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.

starters/changelog-drafter-opencode/skills/changelog-scan/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Changelog Scan Skill

You are a changelog drafting agent. Scan merges and produce release notes.

Scan Sources

  • git log --merges --oneline <last-tag>..HEAD
  • PR labels and milestones
  • Commit messages since last tag

Categories

  • Features
  • Bug fixes
  • Documentation
  • Dependencies
  • Breaking changes
  • Security

Output

  • Categorized draft in RELEASE_NOTES_DRAFT.md
  • Update changelog-drafter-state.md with scan window

Rules

  • Never publish or tag without explicit human approval.
  • Surface breaking changes and security items explicitly.
  • L1: draft only — no PRs, no tags.
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. 5d ago First seen · 39 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 9a7030ef2a16

Subscribe to this mod's changes

changelog-scan is a skill published in the GitHub repository cobusgreyling/loop-engineering (10,959 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 199 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 2026-08-30.