changelog-generator

changelog-generator is a skill for Claude Code from glincker/claude-code-marketplace. It costs 18 tokens per session (1,604 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool that turns a Git project's commit history into a CHANGELOG.md file, a readable record of changes between releases, using the Keep a Changelog format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a new changelog, update an existing one, link entries to commits and pull requests, and organize conventional commit messages.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of reviewing commits and sorting updates into categories such as added, changed, fixed, or documented.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to create a new changelog, update an existing one, link entries to commits and pull requests, and organize conventional commit messages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/glincker/claude-code-marketplace/changelog-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 glincker/claude-code-marketplace --skill changelog-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/glincker/claude-code-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin changelog-generator/plugin install changelog-generator after adding the marketplace above.

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README.md
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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,604 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 $0.00018 $0.01604
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00802
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00321
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00160

Measured 10d ago against content hash 38c8b0c62b7b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

changelog-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 10d 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/automation/changelog-generator/SKILL.md · 271 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 271 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Changelog Generator

Automatically generate CHANGELOG.md from git commit history following Keep a Changelog format. Groups changes by type, links commits, and maintains semantic versioning.

What This Skill Does

  • Parses git commit history
  • Groups changes by type (Added, Changed, Fixed, etc.)
  • Follows Keep a Changelog format
  • Links to commits and PRs
  • Supports conventional commits
  • Updates existing CHANGELOG.md

Instructions

Phase 1: Analyze Git History

# Get commits since last release
git log v1.0.0..HEAD --pretty=format:"%H|%s|%an|%ad" --date=short

# Or all commits if no releases
git log --pretty=format:"%H|%s|%an|%ad" --date=short

Phase 2: Parse Commit Messages

Detect commit types (Conventional Commits):

feat: Add user authentication → Added
fix: Resolve login bug → Fixed
docs: Update README → Documentation
refactor: Simplify auth logic → Changed
perf: Optimize database queries → Changed
test: Add unit tests → Testing
chore: Update dependencies → Maintenance

Phase 3: Generate CHANGELOG

Format (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/en/1.0.0/),
and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).

## [Unreleased]

### Added
- User authentication with JWT tokens [#42](https://github.com/user/repo/pull/42)
- Password reset functionality [@johndoe](https://github.com/johndoe) [abc123](https://github.com/user/repo/commit/abc123)
- Two-factor authentication support

### Changed
- Improved error handling in API endpoints
- Updated UI components to use new design system
- Refactored database connection pooling

### Fixed
- Login button not working on mobile devices [#38](https://github.com/user/repo/issues/38)
- Memory leak in background job processor
- SQL injection vulnerability in search endpoint

### Security
- Updated dependencies with known vulnerabilities
- Implemented rate limiting on auth endpoints
- Added CSRF protection

## [1.2.0] - 2025-01-10

### Added
- Dark mode support
- Export data to CSV functionality

### Fixed
- Cache invalidation issue
- Timezone handling in date picker

## [1.1.0] - 2025-01-05

### Added
- User profile customization
- Email notifications

### Changed
- Improved performance of dashboard queries

## [1.0.0] - 2025-01-01

### Added
- Initial release
- Core functionality
- Basic user management
- API endpoints

[Unreleased]: https://github.com/user/repo/compare/v1.2.0...HEAD
[1.2.0]: https://github.com/user/repo/compare/v1.1.0...v1.2.0
[1.1.0]: https://github.com/user/repo/compare/v1.0.0...v1.1.0
[1.0.0]: https://github.com/user/repo/releases/tag/v1.0.0

Read the full file on GitHub · 271 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. 10d ago First seen · 271 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 38c8b0c62b7b

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changelog-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository glincker/claude-code-marketplace (36 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,604 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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