changelog

changelog is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from drn/dots. It costs 25 tokens per session (720 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that turns recent Git commits into readable release notes. A changelog is a record of what changed between software versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for a chosen period, tag range, or date range, especially when merge commits or sparse commit messages need extra inspection.
Why use it?
It saves time summarizing commit history and organizes changes for people who need to understand 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/drn/dots/changelog
Any agent
npx skills add drn/dots --skill changelog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drn/dots

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.

agentmods badge for changelog

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/drn/dots/changelog.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/drn/dots/changelog)
Your own site
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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 720 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 $0.00025 $0.00720
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00360
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00072

Measured 4d ago against content hash cecbd178d51c, 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 4d 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.

agents/skills/changelog/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context

  • Current branch: !git branch --show-current
  • Latest tag: !git describe --tags --abbrev=0 2>/dev/null | head -1
  • Recent commits (last 7 days): !git log --oneline --since="7 days ago" 2>/dev/null | head -20

Arguments

  • $ARGUMENTS - Optional: time period to look back (e.g., "2 weeks", "since v1.2.0", "last 30 days", "2025-01-01..2025-02-01")

Your task

Generate a well-organized, human-readable changelog from recent git history.

Step 1: Determine the time range

If the user provided a time period in $ARGUMENTS, use it. Otherwise, ask the user what time period they want the changelog to cover. Suggest useful options based on the context above:

  • Since a specific tag (if tags exist)
  • Last N days/weeks
  • A date range
  • Since a specific commit

Step 2: Gather commits

Run git log for the chosen time range with full commit messages:

git log --format="%H%n%s%n%b%n---END---" <range>

If there are merge commits, also look at what was merged:

git log --merges --format="%H %s" <range>

If there are very few commits, also inspect the diffs to understand what changed:

git diff --stat <range>

Step 3: Analyze and categorize

Read through all commit messages and diffs. Group changes into categories. Use only categories that have entries — skip empty ones. Choose from:

  • Added — new features, commands, tools, or capabilities
  • Changed — modifications to existing behavior, UI updates, refactors
  • Fixed — bug fixes
  • Removed — deleted features, deprecated code removal
  • Infrastructure — CI/CD, build system, dependency updates, tooling
  • Documentation — README, docs, comments

Step 4: Write the changelog

Write a changelog that is:

  • Grouped by category with clear headers
  • Concise but meaningful — each entry should explain what and why, not just parrot the commit message
  • Deduplicated — combine related commits into a single entry (e.g., a feature + its follow-up fix = one entry)
  • Ordered by significance within each category
  • Free of noise — omit trivial changes like typo fixes or formatting unless nothing else happened

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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. 4d ago First seen · 93 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A cecbd178d51c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

changelog is a skill published in the GitHub repository drn/dots (23 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 720 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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