changelog

Instructions for updating the Unreleased section of a changelog, a file that records software changes, from recent Git commits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find changes since the latest release, summarize them one per line, and add them to CHANGELOG.md.
Why use it?
It turns commit history into concise release notes and links each entry to its commit or pull request.

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/codeaholicguy/ai-devkit/changelog
Any agent
npx skills add codeaholicguy/ai-devkit --skill changelog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codeaholicguy/ai-devkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 383 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 $0.00049 $0.00383
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00192
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00038

Measured 2d ago against content hash c0b6dc7f2908, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

skills/changelog/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Changelog

Update the top Unreleased list in CHANGELOG.md from commits after the latest release.

Workflow

  1. Find the latest release base:
    • Prefer the latest reachable tag: git describe --tags --abbrev=0.
    • If there are no tags, search recent history for a release commit and use that hash.
  2. Get commits: git log <base>..HEAD --reverse --format='%H%x09%s'.
  3. Derive the GitHub repo URL from git remote get-url origin.
  4. For each commit, add one concise changelog line:
    • Format: - [<short-hash>](<url>) <one-line summary>
    • If the commit clearly relates to a PR, link the hash to the PR URL instead of the commit URL.
    • Detect PRs from subjects like (#123), merge commits, or gh pr list --search <hash> --state all --json number,url.
  5. Insert the new lines into the top Unreleased section/list in CHANGELOG.md.
    • If no Unreleased section exists, create one at the top.
    • Do not create a dated release heading unless the user asks for a release.

Rules

  • Keep one line per commit.
  • Preserve the existing changelog style when obvious.
  • Always add entries to the top Unreleased list.
  • Skip noisy commits only when clearly non-user-facing and explain what was skipped.
  • Do not invent PR links; use commit links when PR evidence is missing.
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 32 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A c0b6dc7f2908

Subscribe to this mod's changes

changelog is a skill published in the GitHub repository codeaholicguy/ai-devkit (1,601 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 383 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.

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