write-changelog

write-changelog is a skill for Claude Code from leifericf/agentic-sdk. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,118 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing changelog entries and preparing releases. A changelog is a user-facing record of important changes between project versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding whether a change belongs in the changelog or when cutting a release.
Why use it?
It keeps release notes aimed at users and prevents entries from being added when the project is still in an early alpha or beta stage.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when deciding whether a change belongs in the changelog or when cutting a release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/leifericf/agentic-sdk/write-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 leifericf/agentic-sdk --skill write-changelog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/leifericf/agentic-sdk

Made for: Claude Code.

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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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Per session 49 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 $0.00049 $0.01118
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00559
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00112

Measured 4d ago against content hash 58665b8f5b28, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

write-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 4d 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/write-changelog/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

write-changelog

The changelog is written for users of the project; the commit log is written for maintainers. Same change, two audiences. Voice rules: skills/shared/references/prose-style.md. Mechanics: during a fix loop the editor and writer agents do not edit the changelog file, they return their CHANGELOG: lines (see apply-findings), the orchestrator holds them in context, and places them into the changelog at land time. The changelog is the committed, durable artifact; the lines reach it as return values, never as files read back from disk.

Stage gate: alpha and beta projects keep no changelog

Before authoring or placing any entry, check the project's stage. The descriptor's version string or the project's stated release line carries it. If the project is in alpha or beta (version suffix -alphaN, -betaN, or any prerelease tag; CalVer or SemVer alike), the project keeps no CHANGELOG.md at all. Return immediately with no entry; do not create the file, do not append to it, do not return CHANGELOG: lines from editors or writers.

Rationale: an alpha or beta surface is shifting too fast for a changelog to carry signal. Every entry would either describe a surface that gets retracted next week or duplicate what the commit log already says. The changelog starts with the first stable release. Until then, the commit log is the history; the README's versioning section is the contract.

If you are asked to cut a release on an alpha or beta project, refuse the changelog step. The version tag and the release notes (if any) are the only artifacts.

When the project crosses to stable (v1.0, the first unqualified CalVer date, or whatever the project's stage convention marks as stable), the first stable release creates CHANGELOG.md with a top heading, the first version section, and the entries accumulated since the stage decision. From there the rituals below apply.

Does it deserve an entry?

Yes: behavior a user can observe changed. A new surface (a menu, a view, a scripting entry point), a fix to wrong output, a crash, a glitch, performance a user would notice (frame rate, throughput), anything security-relevant (always), removed or changed surface.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 101 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 58665b8f5b28

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write-changelog is a skill published in the GitHub repository leifericf/agentic-sdk (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 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.