changelog-generator

changelog-generator is a skill for Claude Code from kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,118 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release-note generator that reads a project's Git commit history and turns relevant changes into a user-friendly changelog. A changelog is a record of what changed between software releases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when preparing releases, app-store updates, GitHub releases, Slack announcements, or a CHANGELOG.md file.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually scan technical commit messages and rewrite them for users.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it when preparing releases, app-store updates, GitHub releases, Slack announcements, or a CHANGELOG.md file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding/changelog-generator
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 kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding --skill changelog-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,118 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 $0.00035 $0.01118
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00559
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00112

Measured 7d ago against content hash d264f3c7e6d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

changelog-generator 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 7d 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.

.claude/skills/changelog-generator/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Iron Law: Never generate a changelog without reading actual git history or diff; always base entries on verified commits, not assumptions.

Changelog Generator Skill

Transform git commit history into polished, user-friendly changelogs. Works with any tech stack by auto-detecting the project structure.

High-Level Process

  1. Detect project structure - Scan repo for platform markers (Java, Node, Python, Angular, Flutter, etc.) and build a platform label map
  2. Determine commit range - Use tags, dates, or commit count. Ask user if unclear
  3. Extract commits - Pull structured log: git log "$LAST_TAG"..HEAD --pretty=format:"%h|%ai|%an|%s" --no-merges
  4. Categorize - Map conventional commit prefixes to user-facing categories (feat -> New Features, fix -> Bug Fixes, perf -> Performance). Skip refactor/test/chore/ci/build/style
  5. Rewrite - Translate technical commits to user-friendly language. Lead with user benefit, strip jargon
  6. Assemble - Format changelog for the target destination
  7. Output - Write to CHANGELOG.md, GitHub Release, App Store, Slack, or internal format

For detailed step-by-step workflow (project detection scripts, commit parsing, categorization table, rewriting rules, assembly format) -> Read reference/changelog-workflow.md

For output format examples (App Store, Keep a Changelog, internal/technical, Slack/email) -> Read reference/changelog-workflow.md

Key Rules

  • Read CLAUDE.md first if it exists -- it describes the project's tech stack and conventions
  • Always include: feat:, fix:, perf:, security:, BREAKING CHANGE
  • Always skip: refactor:, test:, chore:, ci:, build:, style:
  • Non-conventional commits: categorize by intent, include under "Improvements" if ambiguous
  • Multi-platform repos: prefix entries with platform label (e.g., Mobile App, Web App, Backend)
  • Single-platform repos: skip the label entirely

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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. 7d ago First seen · 89 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A d264f3c7e6d5

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changelog-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding (35 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,118 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.