generate-release-notes

generate-release-notes is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jmrplens/gitlab-mcp-server. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,320 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for writing release notes by comparing two Git references, such as version tags, branches, or commit IDs. It gathers changes and organizes them into categories readers can scan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare releases, branches, or commits in an accessible GitLab project and prepare notes covering features, fixes, improvements, breaking changes, and documentation.
Why use it?
Raw commit histories and diffs are difficult for users and teams to understand. Categorized notes explain what changed between releases or deployments, including breaking 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/jmrplens/gitlab-mcp-server/generate-release-notes
Any agent
npx skills add jmrplens/gitlab-mcp-server --skill generate-release-notes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jmrplens/gitlab-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,320 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 $0.00067 $0.01320
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00660
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00264
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00132

Measured 4d ago against content hash b2f9d06ef854, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generate-release-notes 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 4d 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.

.github/skills/generate-release-notes/SKILL.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generate Release Notes

Overview

Generate polished, categorized release notes for a GitLab project by comparing two Git refs. This skill orchestrates multiple MCP tools to gather commits, merged merge requests, and diffs, then produces human-readable release notes.

When to Use

  • Creating release notes for a new tag or version
  • Summarizing changes between any two Git references (tags, branches, SHAs)
  • Preparing changelog entries for a release
  • Reviewing what changed between deployments

Prerequisites

  • A GitLab project accessible via the MCP server
  • Two valid Git refs (tags, branches, or commit SHAs) to compare

Workflow

Step 1: Identify the Project and Refs

Determine the project ID (or namespace/project path) and the two refs to compare.

Common patterns:

  • Tag to tag: v1.0.0v1.1.0
  • Tag to branch: v1.0.0main
  • Branch to branch: release/1.0release/1.1
  • Commit to tag: abc1234v1.1.0

Step 2: Gather Data (Choose One Approach)

Approach A: Manual Orchestration (Recommended)

Orchestrate the tools manually and categorize the results yourself:

  1. Compare refs to get commits and diffs:

    Use gitlab_repository with action "compare":
      - project_id: <project_id>
      - from: <base_ref>
      - to: <target_ref>
    
  2. Search for merged MRs in the change range:

    Use gitlab_merge_request with action "list":
      - project_id: <project_id>
      - state: "merged"
      - per_page: 100
    
  3. Correlate commits with MRs to enrich the data.

  4. Categorize changes based on MR labels, commit prefixes, and descriptions.

Approach B: Use the MCP Prompt

For a prompt-based approach that provides enriched context to the LLM:

Use the generate_release_notes prompt with:
  - project_id: <project_id>
  - from: <base_ref>
  - to: <target_ref>

Step 3: Format the Release Notes

Organize changes into these categories (skip empty categories):

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 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. 4d ago First seen · 170 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A b2f9d06ef854

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generate-release-notes is a skill published in the GitHub repository jmrplens/gitlab-mcp-server (31 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,320 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 2026-08-30.

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