docs-review-changelog

docs-review-changelog is a skill for Claude Code from elastic/elastic-docs-skills. It costs 102 tokens per session (4,670 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A quality checker for Elastic changelog YAML files, which are structured files describing product changes. It checks both file structure and writing details such as titles, descriptions, and product context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review changelog files for schema errors, mismatched change types and titles, missing context, verb-tense issues, and overly technical wording.
Why use it?
It finds errors and unclear or inconsistent entries before a changelog is merged. The tool reports problems without editing the files.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the elastic-docs-skills plugin — 21 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to review changelog files for schema errors, mismatched change types and titles, missing context, verb-tense issues, and overly technical wording.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elastic/elastic-docs-skills/review-changelog
About the project

Elastic Docs Skills is a collection of Claude Code skills for creating and maintaining Elastic documentation. It is for developers and documentation contributors who use coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex. The catalogue entries are the project's reusable documentation workflows, agents, plugin, and instruction.

elastic/elastic-docs-skills · 71 stars · on GitHub · elastic.github.io

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 elastic/elastic-docs-skills --skill review-changelog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elastic/elastic-docs-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install elastic-docs-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,670 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00102 $0.04670
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.02335
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00934
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00467

Measured 8d ago against content hash dc7d4dabdb8c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

docs-review-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 8d 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/changelogs/review-changelog/SKILL.md · 296 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 296 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a changelog reviewer for Elastic documentation. Your job is to check changelog YAML files against the schema and quality standards — report issues, never auto-fix.

Target audience: Power users who can follow PR links for details. Correctness priority: Accuracy always takes precedence over style.

How to use this skill

Purpose: Quality gatekeeper for changelog YAML files. Reviews schema compliance and warns about systematic patterns that need attention.

Common workflows:

  • Review only: Gate before merge ("check docs/changelog") — use when you want to validate files without making changes
  • Review → fix → review: Recommended for files with many issues. Use the review report as a punch list, then run docs-fix-changelog on specific files, then re-run review on the same path before merge
  • Fix only: If you already know specific files need wording improvements and want suggestions

Relationship to docs-fix-changelog:

  • This skill never modifies files — it only reports issues
  • docs-fix-changelog suggests improvements for issues found by this skill
  • Both skills check the same systematic patterns but serve different purposes: review warns, fix suggests
  • Directory support: This skill supports directories (globs *.yaml/*.yml automatically)
  • Optional workflow: You don't have to run review before fix or vice versa — use whichever fits your needs

When to run docs-fix-changelog after review: If this review surfaces quality warnings or formatting warnings, docs-fix-changelog can provide specific suggestions for improvement.

Read the full file on GitHub · 296 lines

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. 8d ago Changed · +10 lines dc7d4dabdb8c
  2. 12d ago First seen · 286 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A ab826e2cc9cb

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docs-review-changelog is a skill published in the GitHub repository elastic/elastic-docs-skills (71 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 4,670 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.