release-and-changelog

release-and-changelog is a skill for Claude Code from duthaho/claudekit. It costs 99 tokens per session (2,833 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release workflow for changing a software version and recording what changed in a changelog, the file that explains updates to users and developers.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps bump package versions, write changelog entries, prepare release notes, create tags, and publish a release.
Why use it?
It prevents vague release notes and version mistakes by tying the release description to the actual code changes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the claudekit plugin — 15 skills, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps bump package versions, write changelog entries, prepare release notes, create tags, and publish a release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/duthaho/claudekit/release-and-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 duthaho/claudekit --skill release-and-changelog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/duthaho/claudekit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claudekit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 8 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,833 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

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How audits are shown
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 $0.00099 $0.02833
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01417
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00567
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00283

Measured 11d ago against content hash 6efb678de572, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-and-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 11d 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/release-and-changelog/SKILL.md · 220 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 220 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release and Changelog

Overview

A workflow for cutting a clean release: bump the version, write changelog entries that reflect the actual diff, tag, publish. The skill exists because the most common release-time failure isn't the publishing mechanism — it's the changelog that says "various improvements" or "performance enhancements" without naming what changed. Users reading the notes can't decide whether to upgrade; engineers debugging six months later can't bisect on the release. This skill enforces that the changelog is built from the diff, not from a remembered list of features. Used after code-review-loop and before publishing/tagging.

When to Use

  • Cutting a numbered release (v1.2.0, v2.0.0-rc1, etc.)
  • Updating a CHANGELOG.md after a feature merge in projects with a rolling-changelog policy
  • Bumping a package version in a published library
  • Writing release notes for a deploy that crosses a version boundary

When NOT to Use

  • Continuous-deployment projects with no version concept (every merge is a deploy; there's no release event)
  • Internal services where deploys don't carry version semantics for consumers
  • A trivial doc-only or test-only change (changelog entry optional per project policy)

Process

Step 1: Determine the version bump

Goal: Pick the correct SemVer level.

Inputs: The set of changes since the last release.

Actions:

  1. List every change since the last tag: git log <last-tag>..HEAD --oneline.
  2. Classify each change:
    • Breaking (incompatible API change, removed feature, changed behavior that callers depend on) → MAJOR bump
    • New feature (additive, backward-compatible) → MINOR bump
    • Bug fix or internal improvement (no behavioral change for callers) → PATCH bump
  3. The bump is the highest classification across all changes. One breaking change in a release of 50 fixes is still a MAJOR bump.
  4. If the project is pre-1.0 (0.x.y), treat MINOR as breaking-allowed and PATCH as the conservative bump. The 0.x.y SemVer license to break is real but should still be exercised consciously.

Read the full file on GitHub · 220 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. 11d ago First seen · 220 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 6efb678de572

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release-and-changelog is a skill published in the GitHub repository duthaho/claudekit (97 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 2,833 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.