changelog-writer

changelog-writer is a skill for Claude Code from hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter. It costs 48 tokens per session (324 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for turning recent Git history into user-facing release notes in Keep a Changelog format. Git history records changes made to a code project, while Keep a Changelog is a common structure for organizing release notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It reads recent commits and prepares or updates a CHANGELOG.md entry after collecting the release version and date.
Why use it?
It translates technical commit messages into changes users can understand and separates additions, behavior changes, fixes, removals, and security updates.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit It reads recent commits and prepares or updates a CHANGELOG.md entry after collecting the release version and date.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 324 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 $0.00048 $0.00324
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00162
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00032

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7eb421ab2406, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

changelog-writer 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/changelog-writer/SKILL.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Run git log --oneline to get the recent commits. Ask the user: "What version number is this release, and what date?"

Then produce a changelog entry:

[Version] — [Date]

Added

New features visible to users. One bullet per feature. Start each bullet with a verb (e.g. "Added ability to…", "New export option for…").

Changed

Behavior that changed for existing users. Flag anything that changes how something works, even if it's an improvement.

Fixed

Bugs that were resolved. Be specific — "Fixed crash when uploading files larger than 10MB" not "Fixed bugs."

Removed

Features or settings that are gone. If something was deprecated, this is where it moves to.

Security

Security fixes always get their own section, even if minor.


Rules:

  • Write for users, not engineers — no commit hashes, branch names, or internal ticket IDs
  • If a commit message is too technical to translate, ask what the user-facing impact was
  • One bullet per change — don't merge multiple changes into one line
  • Present tense: "Adds…" or past tense: "Added…" — pick one and be consistent

Append the entry to CHANGELOG.md if it exists. Create it if it doesn't.

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 · 36 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 7eb421ab2406

Subscribe to this mod's changes

changelog-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter (141 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 324 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.