project-change-log

project-change-log is a skill for Claude Code from hackermanishackerman/claude-skills-vault. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,007 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for maintaining a CHANGELOG.md file, a project record of notable changes, using the Keep a Changelog format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after commits, when releasing a version, or when asked to update the changelog while following the Keep a Changelog and semantic-versioning conventions.
Why use it?
It keeps release and development changes organized under categories such as added, changed, fixed, removed, and security updates.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it after commits, when releasing a version, or when asked to update the changelog while following the Keep a Changelog and semantic-versioning conventions.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,007 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 $0.00000 $0.01007
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00504
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00101

Measured 8d ago against content hash 745918bf119e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 8d 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.

.claude/skills/project-change-log/SKILL.md · 204 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 204 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

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

4. Update Changelog

Read the full file on GitHub · 204 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. 8d ago First seen · 204 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 745918bf119e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-change-log is a skill published in the GitHub repository hackermanishackerman/claude-skills-vault (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,007 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.

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