What is generating-changelog?

A changelog generator that reads Git commit history and turns it into release notes. A changelog is a record of changes between software versions, and the tool supports common formats including GitHub-style notes.

Use it when preparing a release, editing a changelog file, reviewing commits between versions, or writing release notes.

It removes the need to manually reconstruct what changed since a tag or earlier version and helps identify possible major, minor, or patch version changes.

generating-changelog — Skill by joaquimscosta/arkhe-claude-plugins

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 joaquimscosta/arkhe-claude-plugins --skill generating-changelog

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joaquimscosta/arkhe-claude-plugins

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,689 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00117	$0.01689
Opus 5.5	$0.00047	$0.00676
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00023	$0.00338
Haiku 4.5	$0.00012	$0.00169

Measured yesterday against content hash 6d6e1873d849, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generating-changelog 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/git/skills/generating-changelog/SKILL.md · 217 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 217 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Git Changelog Generation

Automatically analyze git commit history and generate comprehensive changelogs following industry-standard formats.

Auto-Invoke Triggers

This skill automatically activates when:

Editing changelog files: CHANGELOG.md, CHANGELOG.txt, HISTORY.md
Mentioning keywords: "changelog", "release notes", "version", "semantic versioning"
Git tagging operations: Creating or discussing version tags
Release preparation: Discussing release preparation or deployment

What This Skill Delivers

When invoked, this skill provides:

1. Git History Analysis Report

Commit range analysis (since last tag or specified range)
Commit categorization by type (feat, fix, docs, etc.)
Semantic version bump recommendation (MAJOR, MINOR, PATCH)
Breaking changes detection
Author and PR number extraction

2. Formatted Changelog

Choose from multiple formats:

Keep a Changelog (default) - Industry standard, human-friendly
Conventional - Follows Conventional Commits specification
GitHub - GitHub-style release notes with PR links

3. Update Strategy

Append to existing CHANGELOG.md (preserves history)
Overwrite with fresh changelog
Create new version section
Merge with existing sections

Common Use Cases

Project Types

Microservices: Track changes across multiple services
Frontend Applications: UI updates and features
API Development: REST API versioning and breaking changes
Infrastructure: Deployment, CI/CD, DevOps updates
Documentation: Technical docs, API docs, guides

Conventional Commit Examples

The skill recognizes standard commit conventions:

feat: add new authentication endpoint
fix: resolve token expiration issue
docs: update API documentation
refactor: optimize database queries
perf: improve calculation performance
test: add integration tests
build: upgrade framework version
ci: configure automated testing
chore: update dependencies

Read the full file on GitHub · 217 lines

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.

yesterday First seen · 217 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A 6d6e1873d849

Subscribe to this mod's changes

generating-changelog is a skill published in the GitHub repository joaquimscosta/arkhe-claude-plugins (21 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 1,689 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-10-16.

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dev-rc

The last gate before merge — QA, security audit, review and changelog, with objective pass conditions.

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changelog-generator

Automatically creates user-facing changelogs from git commits by analyzing commit history, categorizing changes, and transforming technical commits into clear, customer-friendly release notes. Turns hours of manual changelog writing into minutes of automated generation.

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