changelog-keeper

changelog-keeper is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JayRHa/AgentSkills. It costs 103 tokens per session (1,739 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that maintains CHANGELOG.md using Keep a Changelog and Semantic Versioning. It records user-facing changes under categories such as Added, Changed, Fixed, and Security, and can prepare dated releases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or update a changelog, add entries to an Unreleased section, draft release notes from Git history, audit its structure, or cut a versioned release.
Why use it?
It turns scattered development changes into a consistent history that helps users understand releases and helps teams communicate version changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/jayrha/agentskills/changelog-keeper
Any agent
npx skills add JayRHa/AgentSkills --skill changelog-keeper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JayRHa/AgentSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for changelog-keeper

README.md
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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,739 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 $0.00103 $0.01739
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00870
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00348
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00174

Measured 5d ago against content hash 298d6c5699e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

changelog-keeper 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/changelog_tool.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.

changelog-keeper/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Changelog Keeper

Overview

Keywords: changelog, CHANGELOG.md, Keep a Changelog, keepachangelog, semantic versioning, semver, release notes, version bump, Unreleased, changelog entry, release.

This skill maintains a human-readable CHANGELOG.md following the Keep a Changelog convention and Semantic Versioning. It writes entries that describe what changed for users, not raw commit messages, groups them under the six canonical change types, accumulates them under ## [Unreleased], and cuts dated, versioned releases when shipping.

Use it to: start a new changelog, add an entry for a change, cut a release (move Unreleased to a dated version + bump the version number), draft release notes from a git diff/log, or audit/repair an existing changelog's structure.

The six canonical groups (use these exact names, in this order): Added · Changed · Deprecated · Removed · Fixed · Security

Workflow

  1. Locate or create the changelog. Look for CHANGELOG.md at the repo root. If none exists, create one from templates/CHANGELOG.template.md. Never invent a parallel file (e.g. changes.txt).

  2. Classify the change into exactly one of the six groups. Use the decision table below. If a change spans groups (e.g. removed a flag and added its replacement), write one entry per group.

  3. Write a user-facing entry. Each entry is a single bullet, imperative or descriptive, focused on observable behavior. Translate commit-speak into user-speak. See references/keep-a-changelog.md for entry-writing rules and good/bad examples.

  4. Place it under ## [Unreleased] in the correct ### Group subsection. Create the subsection if absent. Keep the canonical group order. Do NOT add a date — Unreleased is undated by definition.

  5. Link issues/PRs at the end of the bullet when available (e.g. (#412)), and credit external contributors when appropriate.

  6. Cut a release when asked to ship/tag/bump.

    • Pick the new version using SemVer (see decision rule below).
    • Rename ## [Unreleased] content to ## [x.y.z] - YYYY-MM-DD (today's date, ISO 8601).
    • Insert a fresh empty ## [Unreleased] above it.
    • Update comparison links at the bottom if the file uses them.
    • The helper does steps 2–3 mechanically: python3 scripts/changelog_tool.py release CHANGELOG.md 1.3.0 2026-06-08.

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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. 5d ago First seen · 115 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 298d6c5699e1

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changelog-keeper is a skill published in the GitHub repository JayRHa/AgentSkills (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 1,739 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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