changelog-generator

changelog-generator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from manu14357/zskills. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,339 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing aid that turns technical Git commit messages into changelogs and release notes that customers and other non-developers can understand.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing release notes, product update summaries, app-store submissions, update notifications, public changelogs, and internal release documentation.
Why use it?
It removes developer shorthand and organizes scattered commit details into user-facing update information.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Preparing release notes, product update summaries, app-store submissions, update notifications, public changelogs, and internal release documentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/manu14357/zskills/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 manu14357/zskills --skill changelog-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/manu14357/zskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,339 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 $0.00040 $0.01339
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00669
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00134

Measured 12d ago against content hash f8dc29d19bec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 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/changelog-generator/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Changelog Generator

Use This Skill When

  • Preparing release notes for a new product version
  • Creating weekly or monthly product update summaries
  • Documenting changes for customers or stakeholders
  • Writing app store changelog submissions
  • Generating update notifications for users
  • Maintaining public changelog or product update pages
  • Creating internal release documentation
  • Need to transform commits into customer-facing language

When NOT to Use

  • Internal developer documentation (keep technical commit language)
  • When commits already have clear user-facing descriptions
  • For non-git version control systems
  • When detailed technical accuracy is required for developers
  • For automated CI/CD commit logs (use raw commits instead)

Context: Changelog Maturity

Undeveloped: Raw git commits listed, technical jargon, unclear for customers.

Target: Commits categorized by type, translated to user language, grouped logically, professional formatting.

Optimized: Polished changelog with strategic storytelling, emphasis on customer impact, brand voice, multimedia integration.

Core Principle

Users deserve clear, accessible changelogs that celebrate product improvements. Transform technical commits into customer language that highlights impact, not implementation.

Instructions

Step 1: Gather Commit History

Identify the scope:

Scope Type Example Use Case
Date Range "March 1–15" Weekly/monthly updates
Version Range "v2.4.0 to v2.5.0" Release-specific
Time Period "Last 7 days" Recent changes
Branch "main since last release" Staged features

Command pattern (provide to user):

Get all commits from [DATE] to [DATE]
or
Get all commits between version [V1] and [V2]
or
Get all commits from the past [N] days

Step 2: Categorize Changes

Standard Categories:

Category Indicators Icon
Features "feat:", new functionality, user-facing
Improvements "perf:", "improve", speed, UX enhancements 🔧
Bug Fixes "fix:", "resolved", issues, errors 🐛
Breaking Changes "BREAKING", incompatible changes ⚠️
Security "security", "CVE", vulnerability fixes 🔒
Documentation "docs:", guides, README, help 📖

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 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. 12d ago First seen · 186 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A f8dc29d19bec

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changelog-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository manu14357/zskills (16 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,339 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 2026-08-30.

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