docs-changelog

docs-changelog is a skill for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI from google-gemini/gemini-cli. It costs 25 tokens per session (1,913 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A release-note writer that creates and formats changelog files from a version, release time, and raw change summary. A changelog records what changed in each software release.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to update release changelog files, select the correct release section, and turn raw release information into formatted highlights.
Why use it?
It removes repetitive formatting work and applies the repository's rules for stable and preview releases. It also helps focus the summary on the most important changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodexGemini CLI

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/google-gemini/gemini-cli/docs-changelog
Any agent
npx skills add google-gemini/gemini-cli --skill docs-changelog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI.

Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,913 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00025 $0.01913
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00957
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00383
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00191

Measured 3d ago against content hash accc09bf6ded, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

docs-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 3d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.gemini/skills/docs-changelog/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Procedure: Updating Changelog for New Releases

Objective

To standardize the process of updating changelog files (latest.md, preview.md, index.md) based on automated release information.

Inputs

  • version: The release version string (e.g., v0.28.0, v0.29.0-preview.2).
  • TIME: The release timestamp (e.g., 2026-02-12T20:33:15Z).
  • BODY: The raw markdown release notes, containing a "What's Changed" section and a "Full Changelog" link.

Guidelines for latest.md and preview.md Highlights

  • Aim for 3-5 key highlight points.
  • Each highlight point must start with a bold-typed title that summarizes the change (e.g., **New Feature:** A brief description...).
  • Prioritize summarizing new features over other changes like bug fixes or chores.
  • Avoid mentioning features that are "experimental" or "in preview" in Stable Releases.
  • DO NOT include PR numbers, links, or author names in these highlights.
  • Refer to .gemini/skills/docs-changelog/references/highlights_examples.md for the correct style and tone.

Initial Processing

  1. Analyze Version: Determine the release path based on the version string.
    • If version contains "nightly", STOP. No changes are made.
    • If version ends in .0, follow the Path A: New Minor Version procedure.
    • If version does not end in .0, follow the Path B: Patch Version procedure.
  2. Process Time: Convert the TIME input into two formats for later use: yyyy-mm-dd and Month dd, yyyy.
  3. Process Body:
    • Save the incoming BODY content to a temporary file for processing.
    • In the "What's Changed" section of the temporary file, reformat all pull request URLs to be markdown links with the PR number as the text (e.g., [#12345](URL)).
    • If a "New Contributors" section exists, delete it.
    • Preserve the "Full Changelog" link. The processed content of this temporary file will be used in subsequent steps.

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 3d ago First seen · 169 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A accc09bf6ded

Subscribe to this mod's changes

docs-changelog is a skill published in the GitHub repository google-gemini/gemini-cli (106,761 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,913 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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