write-release-notes

A skill for writing release notes, which explain what changed in a software version to its users. It retrieves a GitHub release and its linked pull requests, then organizes the changes into categories.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating release notes from a version tag, including features, bug fixes, performance changes, refactors, maintenance, and dependency updates.
Why use it?
It removes the need to collect pull-request details and turn them into a readable summary by hand.

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/justrach/codegraff2/write-release-notes
Any agent
npx skills add justrach/codegraff2 --skill write-release-notes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/justrach/codegraff2

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,328 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00105 $0.01328
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00664
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00133

Measured yesterday against content hash 91f2ef140471, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

write-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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/fetch-release-data.sh, scripts/validate-release-notes.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to write-release-notes — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.forge/skills/write-release-notes/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Write Release Notes

Generate clear, informative, and enthusiastic release notes by pulling live data from GitHub and synthesizing every PR into a cohesive narrative.

Workflow

1. Fetch Release Data

Run the bundled script to pull the release metadata and all linked PR details in one shot:

bash .forge/skills/write-release-notes/scripts/fetch-release-data.sh <version> [owner/repo]
  • <version>: The release tag (e.g. v1.32.0)
  • [owner/repo]: Optional. Defaults to the current repo detected via gh repo view.

The script outputs two sections:

  • ### RELEASE METADATA ### — tag name, publish date, release name, raw body
  • ### PR DETAILS ### — one JSON object per PR with: number, title, body, labels, author, mergedAt, url

2. Categorize Changes

Group PRs by their conventional commit prefix or label:

Category Prefixes / Labels
Features feat, type: feature
Bug Fixes fix, type: fix
Performance perf
Refactors refactor
Maintenance chore, docs, ci, build, deps

Dependency bumps (e.g. Dependabot PRs) go into Maintenance. Skip PRs with error: "not found".

3. Write the Release Notes

Produce a Markdown document with the following structure. Keep the tone informative and enthusiastic — explain what changed and why it matters, without resorting to marketing fluff.

# [Product Name] [Version] — [Descriptive Tagline]

> One-sentence summary of what this release focuses on.

## What's New

[2-4 sentence narrative covering the biggest features and fixes. 
Describe what changed and what users can now do. Use active voice. Be factual but upbeat.]

## Highlights

### [Feature/Fix Category]
**[PR Title rephrased as a clear description of the change]**
[1-2 sentences expanding on the PR description. Explain what changed and what users can now do differently. 
If the PR body has useful context, distill it. If empty, infer from the title.]

[Repeat for each significant PR — skip pure chores/dep bumps unless noteworthy]

## Bug Fixes & Reliability

[Bullet list of fixes, each with a brief impact statement]

## Under the Hood

[Brief paragraph or bullet list covering refactors, maintenance, and dep updates — 
keep it light, acknowledge the work without boring the reader]

## Contributors

A huge thank you to everyone who made this release happen: [list @handles — exclude bots like @dependabot]

---
**Full changelog**: [GitHub Release link]

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 130 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 91f2ef140471

Subscribe to this mod's changes

write-release-notes is a skill published in the GitHub repository justrach/codegraff2 (24 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 1,328 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to write-release-notes, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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