changelog-maintenance

changelog-maintenance is a skill for Codex from jeremylongworth-source/AgentSkills. It costs 52 tokens per session (292 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for keeping a software project’s changelog—the file that records what changed between releases—accurate and consistent.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps add unreleased changes, prepare version sections, organize entries such as fixes and security changes, and preserve the project’s existing format.
Why use it?
It prevents missing, invented, or misleading release notes and makes breaking changes and upgrade requirements clear.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit It helps add unreleased changes, prepare version sections, organize entries such as fixes and security changes, and preserve the project’s existing format.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeremylongworth-source/agentskills/changelog-maintenance
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 jeremylongworth-source/AgentSkills --skill changelog-maintenance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongworth-source/AgentSkills

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 292 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 $0.00052 $0.00292
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00146
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00029

Measured 8d ago against content hash eb083fbdbe5f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

changelog-maintenance 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.

skills/changelog-maintenance/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Changelog Maintenance

Core Workflow

  1. Identify the changelog format, current version, target version, and source of changes.
  2. Preserve existing structure and style unless the user asks for a migration.
  3. Add concise entries under stable categories such as Added, Changed, Fixed, Deprecated, Removed, Security, and Docs.
  4. Move completed Unreleased entries into a version section when preparing a release.
  5. Keep issue, PR, and commit references only when they are useful and accurate.
  6. Note breaking changes and migration requirements prominently.

Safety Rules

  • Do not invent change history, issue numbers, contributors, dates, or fixes.
  • Do not rewrite historical entries unless asked.
  • Do not hide breaking changes or security-relevant notes.

Deliverable Shape

For changelog work, provide:

  • Changelog section changed
  • Entries added or moved
  • Version/date assumptions
  • Breaking or migration notes
  • Source changes used
  • Validation or review notes

References

  • Read references/changelog-maintenance-checklist.md when updating or reviewing changelogs.
Files

What ships with it

2 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. 8d ago First seen · 42 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A eb083fbdbe5f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

changelog-maintenance is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeremylongworth-source/AgentSkills (1 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 292 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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