add-to-changelog

add-to-changelog is a skill for Claude Code from kellykampen/agent-skills. It costs 92 tokens per session (630 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A helper for adding entries to CHANGELOG.md, the file that records notable project changes for each release. It follows Keep a Changelog and Semantic Versioning, a common system for describing release changes and version numbers.

In plain words
What is it for?
It adds entries such as added, changed, fixed, removed, deprecated, or security changes under the requested version.
Why use it?
It avoids manually finding or creating the right release and change sections, reducing inconsistent changelog formatting.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the agent-skills plugin — 25 skills, 7 commands shipped together

Good fit It adds entries such as added, changed, fixed, removed, deprecated, or security changes under the requested version.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kellykampen/agent-skills/add-to-changelog
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 kellykampen/agent-skills --skill add-to-changelog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kellykampen/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 7 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 630 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00092 $0.00630
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00315
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00063

Measured 12d ago against content hash 64f4e62fac7e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-to-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 12d 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.

skills/engineering/add-to-changelog/SKILL.md · 63 lines

What it actually says

Add to Changelog

Add a new entry to the project's CHANGELOG.md following the Keep a Changelog format and Semantic Versioning.

Arguments

  • <version> — SemVer version (e.g. 1.1.0, 2.0.0-beta.1)
  • <change_type> — one of: added, changed, deprecated, removed, fixed, security
  • <message> — description of the change (quote multi-word messages)

If any argument is missing, infer sensible values from context (e.g. the current work) or ask the user.

Process

  1. Parse the version, change type, and message from the arguments.
  2. Check if CHANGELOG.md exists in the project root. If not, create it with the standard Keep a Changelog header:
    # 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/).
    
  3. Look for an existing ## [<version>] section.
    • If it exists, add the entry under the appropriate ### <Change Type> heading (create the heading if absent).
    • If it doesn't, create a new version section with today's date: ## [<version>] - YYYY-MM-DD (get the date from date +%F), then the change-type heading and entry.
  4. Keep versions in reverse-chronological order and entries tidy.
  5. Write the file back.

Change types

  • Added — new features
  • Changed — changes to existing functionality
  • Deprecated — soon-to-be-removed features
  • Removed — removed features
  • Fixed — bug fixes
  • Security — security fixes

Example

/add-to-changelog 1.1.0 added "Waitlist referral source configuration"

## [1.1.0] - 2026-01-15

### Added

- Waitlist referral source configuration
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. 12d ago First seen · 63 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 64f4e62fac7e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

add-to-changelog is a skill published in the GitHub repository kellykampen/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 630 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.