changelog

changelog is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from definite-d/agent-skills. It costs 235 tokens per session (1,556 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for writing and maintaining a CHANGELOG.md file, which records what changed in each software release. It uses Keep a Changelog categories and Semantic Versioning, a system for describing release impact with version numbers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating changelogs, updating existing release notes, categorizing changes, and selecting the next software version.
Why use it?
It turns scattered Git history and release notes into a readable record for developers and users. It also helps determine whether a release needs a major, minor, or patch version change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Creating changelogs, updating existing release notes, categorizing changes, and selecting the next software version.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/definite-d/agent-skills/changelog
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.

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

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.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/definite-d/agent-skills/changelog/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/definite-d/agent-skills/changelog)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/definite-d/agent-skills/changelog"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/definite-d/agent-skills/changelog/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/definite-d/agent-skills/changelog"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/definite-d/agent-skills/changelog.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 235 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,556 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00235 $0.01556
Opus 5 $0.00118 $0.00778
Sonnet 5 $0.00047 $0.00311
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00156

Measured 9d ago against content hash 46094278c4c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 9d 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 · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Changelog Skill

Produce human-readable, release-ready changelogs that follow Keep a Changelog structure and Semantic Versioning bump rules, whether starting from an empty repo or maintaining an existing file.

Mode Selection

Mode Trigger Action
From scratch No CHANGELOG.md exists Build full file from git history / records
Update existing CHANGELOG.md exists Merge new changes, preserving its conventions
Subset User names a version range Extract only that window

Confirm the mode and target (whole repo, a package, a file) before writing.

Gather Records

Prioritize sources in this order:

  1. Existing changelog — parse headings, section names, date format, link style. Preserve them.
  2. Git history — scope per mode:
    git tag --sort=-version:refname              # release anchors
    git log <last_tag>..HEAD --oneline --decorate # unreleased changes
    git log --oneline --decorate                 # full history (from scratch)
    git log -1 --format='%ad %h' --date=short <tag>  # release date for a tag
    
  3. Release records — release notes, PR descriptions, issues closed in a milestone. Treat as ground truth when present; use commits to fill gaps.
  4. User-provided lists — commit messages pasted in chat. Parse them as-is.

Skip merge commits, dependabot noise, and generated files unless they affect users.

Bucket Into Standard Sections

Keep a Changelog categories, ordered as shown:

Section Conventional type mapping Example entry
Added feat, perf (new) - **Added:** rate_limit middleware for public endpoints.
Changed refactor, perf, style - **Changed:** JSON serialization to use orjson.
Fixed fix - **Fixed:** panic on empty payload in the webhook handler.
Removed remove, revert, deprecate follow-up - **Removed:** legacy v1 auth endpoints.
Deprecated deprecate - **Deprecated:** --envflag; use--profile instead.
Security fix (CVE), security - **Security:** patched SSRF in proxy URL validation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 9d ago First seen · 136 lines · 235 tokens per session scan A 46094278c4c5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

changelog is a skill published in the GitHub repository definite-d/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 235 tokens to every session and 1,556 once invoked, about $0.0012 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 2026-08-31.