release-notes-generator

release-notes-generator is a skill for Claude Code from FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-plugins. It costs 59 tokens per session (1,572 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release-note generator that reads git commits and produces a changelog, pull-request body, and Slack announcement.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for summarizing features, fixes, improvements, security changes, breaking changes, and database migrations for a release.
Why use it?
It removes repetitive release writing and turns commit-level technical details into clearer updates for different audiences.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the release-automation plugin — 3 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit It is for summarizing features, fixes, improvements, security changes, breaking changes, and database migrations for a release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/florianbruniaux/claude-code-plugins/release-notes-generator
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 FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-plugins --skill release-notes-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install release-automation, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 1 command.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,572 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 $0.00059 $0.01572
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00629
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00314
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00157

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c5a968fe89fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-notes-generator 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 1mo 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.

plugins/release-automation/skills/release-notes-generator/SKILL.md · 251 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 251 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Notes Generator

Generate comprehensive release notes in 3 formats from git commits.

Workflow

  1. Analyze git history since last release tag or specified version
  2. Fetch PR details (titles, descriptions, labels) via gh api
  3. Categorize changes into features, bug fixes, improvements, security, breaking changes
  4. Generate 3 outputs: CHANGELOG.md section (technical), PR release body (semi-technical), Slack message (user-friendly)
  5. Transform language from technical jargon to accessible messaging
  6. Alert on migrations if database migrations are detected

How to Use

Basic Usage

Generate release notes since last release
Create release notes for version 0.18.0

With Specific Range

Generate release notes from v0.17.0 to HEAD

Preview Only

Preview release notes without writing files

Output Formats

1. CHANGELOG.md Section

Technical format for developers:

## [0.18.0] - 2025-12-08

### Objective
[1-2 sentence summary]

### New Features
#### [Feature Name] (#PR)
- **Description**: ...
- **Impact**: ...

### Bug Fixes
- **[Module]**: Description (#issue, [error-tracker] ISSUE-XX)

### Technical Improvements
#### Performance / UI/UX / Architecture
- [Description]

### Database Migrations
[If applicable]

### Statistics
- PRs: X
- Features: Y
- Bugs: Z

2. PR Release Body

Uses template from .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/release.md:

  • Objective summary
  • Features with specs links
  • Bug fixes with error tracker references
  • Improvements by category
  • Migration instructions
  • Deployment checklist

3. Slack Announcement

Product-focused format from .github/COMMUNICATION_TEMPLATE/slack-release.md:

  • PR link included for traceability
  • Non-technical language
  • Focus on user impact (end-users, admins, stakeholders)
  • Emojis for readability
  • Statistics summary

Workflow Integration

This skill integrates with the release workflow:

1. Analyze commits: git log <last-tag>..HEAD
2. Determine version number (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH)
3. Generate 3 outputs
4. Create PR develop -> main with "Release" label
5. Update CHANGELOG.md
6. After merge: create git tag
7. Generate Slack announcement

Read the full file on GitHub · 251 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 1mo ago First seen · 251 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A c5a968fe89fa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-notes-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-plugins (42 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,572 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-04.

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