ensemble-claude-changelog

ensemble-claude-changelog is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from FortiumPartners/ensemble. It costs 32 tokens per session (768 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A development skill for retrieving Claude release notes from Anthropic documentation. It can filter the changelog by version, date, category, and importance, and caches results for 24 hours.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check Claude updates, refresh cached changelog data, validate search filters, and display matching release information.
Why use it?
It avoids manually searching release notes and can reuse recent results when the same information is requested again.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: user-invocable in frontmatter, but also installed under .codex/. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the ensemble-codex plugin — 40 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to check Claude updates, refresh cached changelog data, validate search filters, and display matching release information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fortiumpartners/ensemble/ensemble-claude-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 FortiumPartners/ensemble --skill ensemble-claude-changelog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FortiumPartners/ensemble

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ensemble-codex, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 skills.

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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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
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 768 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 $0.00032 $0.00768
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00384
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00154
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00077

Measured 12d ago against content hash 12c31a65998e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ensemble-claude-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 12d 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.

packages/codex/.codex/skills/commands/ensemble-claude-changelog/SKILL.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ensemble Command: /ensemble:claude-changelog

This Codex skill mirrors the Ensemble slash command /ensemble:claude-changelog. Follow the workflow below, adapt to the current repository, and keep outputs structured.

This command fetches and displays Claude changelog information from Anthropic documentation. It provides intelligent filtering by version, date, category, and importance level. Results are cached for 24 hours to optimize performance.

Workflow

Phase 1: Parameter Parsing

1. Validate Parameters Parse and validate command parameters

  • Parse command-line arguments
  • Validate version format (semver)
  • Validate date format (YYYY-MM-DD or relative)
  • Validate category names
  • Validate output format

2. Handle Help Flag Display help if requested

  • Check if --help flag is set
  • Return comprehensive help text if true
  • Continue to workflow if false

Phase 2: Data Fetching

1. Check Cache Check for cached changelog data

  • Skip cache if --refresh flag is set
  • Check cache directory ~/.ensemble/cache/changelog/
  • Verify cache TTL (24 hours)
  • Return cached data if fresh

2. Fetch from Network Fetch changelog from Anthropic documentation

  • Attempt WebFetch MCP integration (if available)
  • Fall back to Node.js HTTPS module
  • Apply 5-second timeout
  • Retry with exponential backoff (max 2 retries)
  • Handle network errors gracefully

3. Cache Response Store fetched data in cache

  • Create cache directory if needed
  • Write JSON cache file with TTL metadata
  • Handle cache write errors (non-critical)

Phase 3: Parsing & Categorization

1. Parse HTML Content Extract structured data from changelog HTML

  • Parse HTML with cheerio
  • Extract version (semver format)
  • Extract release date (ISO 8601)
  • Identify section headers (7 categories)
  • Extract feature descriptions

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 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. 12d ago First seen · 123 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 12c31a65998e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ensemble-claude-changelog is a skill published in the GitHub repository FortiumPartners/ensemble (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 768 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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