release-notes

A release-note generator that turns Git history between two versions into user-facing notes for GitHub.

In plain words
What is it for?
It compares tags, commits, or the current revision, runs the project's changelog script, and organizes the results into release notes.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually collect commits and rewrite technical commit messages for a release.

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/code-payments/code-android-app/release-notes
Any agent
npx skills add code-payments/code-android-app --skill release-notes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/code-payments/code-android-app

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,049 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 $0.00050 $0.01049
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00524
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00210
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00105

Measured 2d ago against content hash 89a8cdc0f89d, 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 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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/release-notes/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Notes Generator

Generate polished GitHub release notes for the code-android-app repository.

Pre-flight context

  • Latest tag: !git describe --tags --match 'fcash/*' --abbrev=0 HEAD 2>/dev/null || echo "no tags found"
  • All recent tags: !git tag --sort=-creatordate | head -10

Input

Parse the two refs from $ARGUMENTS. Each ref can be a tag, a commit SHA, a commit number (Nth commit in repo history), or HEAD:

  • /release-notes fcash/2026.4.10 fcash/2026.4.11
  • /release-notes fcash/2026.4.9 HEAD
  • /release-notes a3f2417 HEAD
  • /release-notes 3599 HEAD (from the 3599th commit to HEAD)

If only one ref is provided, use it as <from> and default <to> to HEAD. If no refs are provided, use the pre-flight latest tag as <from> and HEAD as <to>.

Steps

1. Run the changelog script

bash scripts/changelog.sh <from_tag> <to_tag>

Display the raw output for the user to see.

2. Rewrite into release notes

Use the Agent tool with model: "haiku". Pass the raw changelog output with this prompt:

Given these git commits (conventional commit format), write user-facing release notes.

Rules:

  • Group under: Features, Bug Fixes, Improvements, Dependencies (omit empty sections)
  • Write for end users — no jargon, file names, or internals
  • One short sentence per item
  • Group related commits into a single bullet when they address the same area
  • Use scope as context but write in plain language; keep scope in bold prefix when it adds clarity
  • ALWAYS include bug fixes — only drop pure refactors, CI pipeline changes, and release/manifest bookkeeping
  • Feature bullets start with a lowercase verb (e.g., "add", "support", "enable")
  • Bug fix bullets start with "Fixed" (capitalized)
  • Dependencies section: list each dependency bump as Name X.Y.Z → A.B.C (use the human-readable library name, not the Maven coordinate). Include targetSdkVersion and Gradle wrapper bumps in this section too.
  • Use 2-space indent before each bullet ( -)
  • Do NOT include commit hashes
  • If no user-facing changes, output: Bug fixes and performance improvements.
  • Output ONLY the section markdown, no title or fences

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 2d ago First seen · 102 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 89a8cdc0f89d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-notes is a skill published in the GitHub repository code-payments/code-android-app (23 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,049 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 2026-08-30.

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