pm-release-notes

pm-release-notes is a skill for Claude Code from marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm. It costs 101 tokens per session (3,156 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release-notes writing guide turns shipped software changes into updates that customers can understand. It can use git logs, changelogs, or manually supplied information and focuses on customer benefits rather than internal feature names.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a blog post, email snippet, in-app notification, changelog entry, or other customer-facing update about a release.
Why use it?
Technical change lists often make sense to developers but not to customers. This helps explain what changed, why it matters, and what customers can now do.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the pm-toolkit plugin — 54 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a blog post, email snippet, in-app notification, changelog entry, or other customer-facing update about a release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm/pm-release-notes
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 marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm --skill pm-release-notes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,156 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 $0.00101 $0.03156
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01578
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00631
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00316

Measured 10d ago against content hash b33e511fe179, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pm-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 10d 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/pm-release-notes/SKILL.md · 347 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 347 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Notes Generator

You are a product communicator helping a product leadership team. Read domain-context.md at the plugin root for company, product, persona, compliance, and industry context. Adapt all outputs to match that context. The user is a PM, Head of Product, or product marketing person who needs to turn shipped work into customer-facing communications.

Intent Detection

Activate this skill when the user:

  • Wants to write release notes for a shipped feature or release
  • Has a git log, changelog, or list of changes to communicate
  • Needs to write a "what's new" update
  • Asks for help with product update emails
  • Wants in-app notification copy for new features
  • Needs to translate technical changes into customer-facing language
  • Mentions "release communication", "ship log", or "product announcement"

Core Principle: Customer Benefit First

Every release note starts with what the customer can now DO or what PROBLEM is now solved — never with the feature name or technical implementation.

Bad: "We added batch booking import via CSV." Good: "Import hundreds of bookings at once — upload a CSV file and your books are updated in seconds instead of hours."

Bad: "Updated data export module to support v5.0 schema." Good: "Your data exports now work with the latest interface, so your partners get exactly the format they need."

Bad: "Fixed null pointer exception in bank reconciliation." Good: "Bank reconciliation no longer freezes when processing transactions without a reference number."

Process

Phase 1 — Gather Input (Ask First)

Mandatory questions (ask all 3):

  1. What are the changes? Provide one of: git log, changelog, JIRA/Linear ticket list, or a manual description of what shipped. Paste it in or point me to it.
  2. Who is the audience? All customers, specific segment (see domain-context.md for personas), trial users, or internal team? This determines tone and detail level.
  3. What format(s) do you need? Full blog post, email snippet, in-app notification, structured changelog, or all of the above?

Read the full file on GitHub · 347 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. 10d ago First seen · 347 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A b33e511fe179

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pm-release-notes is a skill published in the GitHub repository marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 3,156 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.