project-change-log

project-change-log is a skill for Claude Code from georgekhananaev/claude-skills-vault. It costs 87 tokens per session (1,705 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for maintaining a CHANGELOG.md, a file that records notable software changes by release. It follows the Keep a Changelog format and groups changes such as additions, fixes, and security updates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after commits, before releases, or when updating a project's documented history according to standard release categories.
Why use it?
It keeps release history understandable and prevents change notes from becoming inconsistent or too large. Older releases can be organized into separate archive files.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it after commits, before releases, or when updating a project's documented history according to standard release categories.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/georgekhananaev/claude-skills-vault/project-change-log
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 georgekhananaev/claude-skills-vault --skill project-change-log
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/georgekhananaev/claude-skills-vault

Made for: Claude Code.

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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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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,705 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 $0.00087 $0.01705
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00852
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00341
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00170

Measured 9d ago against content hash fd31e11fb8a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-change-log 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/rotate_changelog.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.claude/skills/project-change-log/SKILL.md · 260 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 260 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Change Log

Automatically maintain a CHANGELOG.md file following the Keep a Changelog standard.

When to Use

  • After creating a commit
  • When /commit command is executed
  • When user asks to update changelog
  • When releasing a new version
  • When CHANGELOG.md has grown large (rotate old releases into archives — see Keeping the changelog small)

Changelog Format

The standard format is CHANGELOG.md in the project root, following Keep a Changelog:

# Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/),
and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).

## [Unreleased]

### Added
- New feature description

### Changed
- Change description

### Fixed
- Bug fix description

## [1.0.0] - 2026-01-04

### Added
- Initial release features

Change Categories

Category Description
Added New features
Changed Changes in existing functionality
Deprecated Soon-to-be removed features
Removed Removed features
Fixed Bug fixes
Security Vulnerability fixes

Process

1. Detect Changelog

Check if CHANGELOG.md exists in project root:

  • If exists: Read current content
  • If not: Create with template

2. Analyze Commit

Extract from the commit:

  • Type: feat, fix, docs, etc.
  • Scope: Affected area
  • Description: What changed
  • Date: Current date (YYYY-MM-DD)
  • Author: From git config

3. Map Commit Type to Category

Commit Type Changelog Category
feat Added
fix Fixed
docs Changed
style Changed
refactor Changed
perf Changed
test Changed
build Changed
ci Changed
chore Changed
security Security
deprecate Deprecated
remove Removed

Read the full file on GitHub · 260 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 260 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A fd31e11fb8a5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-change-log is a skill published in the GitHub repository georgekhananaev/claude-skills-vault (28 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 1,705 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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