changelog-updates

changelog-updates is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jonathimer/devmarketing-skills. It costs 95 tokens per session (3,234 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for developer-facing changelogs and release notes. It covers how to describe shipped changes, version updates, breaking changes, and deprecations—features being phased out.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write changelog entries, release notes, product updates, breaking-change announcements, and deprecation notices for a developer audience.
Why use it?
It helps developers quickly understand changes that may affect their integrations, while making the project's release history easier to trust and follow.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to write changelog entries, release notes, product updates, breaking-change announcements, and deprecation notices for a developer audience.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jonathimer/devmarketing-skills/changelog-updates
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 jonathimer/devmarketing-skills --skill changelog-updates
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathimer/devmarketing-skills

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.

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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jonathimer/devmarketing-skills/changelog-updates"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jonathimer/devmarketing-skills/changelog-updates.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,234 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00095 $0.03234
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01617
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00647
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00323

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5c4c2e2ea18d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

changelog-updates scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 10d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl https://api.example.com/v2/users
skills/changelog-updates/SKILL.md · 541 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 541 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Changelogs and Product Updates Developers Care About

Release notes are developer communication, not documentation. When done well, they build trust, demonstrate momentum, and turn updates into marketing moments.

Overview

Changelogs serve multiple audiences and purposes:

  • Active developers: "What changed that affects my integration?"
  • Evaluating developers: "Is this product actively maintained?"
  • Developer advocates: "What's worth sharing with my audience?"
  • Your team: Historical record of what shipped and when

This skill covers creating changelogs that inform, build trust, and occasionally delight.

Before You Start

Review the developer-audience-context skill to understand:

  • How do your developers prefer to receive updates?
  • What changes do they care most about?
  • How much detail do they need?
  • What's their tolerance for breaking changes?

Your changelog tone and detail level should match your audience.

Changelog Format

The Standard Structure

# Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/),
and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).

## [Unreleased]
### Added
- New feature in development

## [2.3.0] - 2024-01-15
### Added
- New `analyze()` method for sentiment analysis
- Support for batch processing up to 100 items

### Changed
- Improved error messages with troubleshooting links
- Default timeout increased from 30s to 60s

### Deprecated
- `old_analyze()` will be removed in v3.0.0

### Fixed
- Race condition in concurrent requests (#234)
- Memory leak when processing large files (#256)

## [2.2.1] - 2024-01-08
### Fixed
- Critical security patch for authentication bypass

## [2.2.0] - 2024-01-01
...

Change Categories

Category Use For
Added New features, new endpoints, new parameters
Changed Behavior changes, performance improvements
Deprecated Features being phased out (still working)
Removed Features that no longer exist
Fixed Bug fixes
Security Security-related changes

Read the full file on GitHub · 541 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago First seen · 541 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 5c4c2e2ea18d

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changelog-updates is a skill published in the GitHub repository jonathimer/devmarketing-skills (86 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 3,234 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.