release-notes

release-notes is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jnMetaCode/ai-coding-guide. It costs 59 tokens per session (610 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A release-note writer that turns a range of Git commits into user-facing changelog text. It groups changes into features, fixes, and breaking changes, which are changes that may require users to adjust their code or workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare release notes or changelog entries for a version, milestone, or selected range of Git history.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually interpret internal commit messages and rewrite them for users.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to prepare release notes or changelog entries for a version, milestone, or selected range of Git history.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jnmetacode/ai-coding-guide/templates
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 jnMetaCode/ai-coding-guide --skill templates
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jnMetaCode/ai-coding-guide

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 610 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00059 $0.00610
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00244
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00061

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6c21c88af17f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 1mo 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.

codex/templates/SKILL.md · 60 lines

What it actually says

Release Notes Drafter

Generate clear, user-facing release notes from git log between two refs.

When to fire

  • User mentions: "release notes", "changelog", "what shipped", "summarize this milestone"
  • A git ref range or version tag is in scope (e.g. v1.2.0..HEAD, last-tag..main)

Inputs you should gather

  1. The two refs (default: <latest tag>..HEAD if user didn't specify)
  2. Audience: end users (default), API consumers, internal team
  3. Output format: markdown (default), JSON, or plain text

Steps

  1. Run git log <from>..<to> --pretty=format:'%h%x09%s%x09%an' --no-merges
  2. For each commit, classify:
    • feat: / add: → Features
    • fix: / bugfix: → Fixes
    • BREAKING CHANGE: (in body) → Breaking (top of doc, explicit migration note)
    • everything else (chore:, docs:, refactor:, test:) → omit unless user-visible
  3. For each entry, rewrite the commit message in user-facing language (no feat(api): prefix; no internal jargon)
  4. If there's a PR number in the commit ((#1234)), link it
  5. Group by category, sort by impact (breaking > features > fixes > minor)

Output template

## <version> — <date>

### ⚠️ Breaking changes
- <one-sentence summary>. **Migration:** <what to do>. ([#PR])

### ✨ Features
- <user-visible benefit>. ([#PR])

### 🐛 Fixes
- <symptom that's now fixed>. ([#PR])

Gotchas

  • Don't dump raw commit messages — rewrite from the user's perspective
  • Squash-merged repos: each merge commit covers many internal commits; read the PR description for context
  • Conventional Commit chore: and docs: rarely belong in user-facing notes
  • If BREAKING CHANGE: is in the body of a feat:, the entry must surface as Breaking, not Feature
  • For monorepos, prefix entries with the affected package name ([@org/auth])

References

  • See references/conventional-commits.md for the full type list
  • See examples/v1.2.0.md for a polished sample
Files

What ships with it

3 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. 1mo ago First seen · 60 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 6c21c88af17f

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release-notes is a skill published in the GitHub repository jnMetaCode/ai-coding-guide (544 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 610 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.