changelog-composer

changelog-composer is a skill for Claude Code from Mathews-Tom/armory. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,734 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for turning Git history and pull request descriptions into changelogs and release notes. A changelog is a dated summary of what changed in a software release.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare release notes, summarize changes since a tag, or document a new version. It supports formats such as Keep a Changelog and GitHub Releases.
Why use it?
It organizes raw commit and pull request details into user-facing categories, while filtering out internal-only changes. It also identifies breaking changes that may require users to update their code.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the armory plugin — 85 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare release notes, summarize changes since a tag, or document a new version. It supports formats such as Keep a Changelog and GitHub Releases.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mathews-tom/armory/changelog-composer
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 Mathews-Tom/armory --skill changelog-composer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mathews-Tom/armory

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install armory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 85 skills.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,734 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Prompt Injection · line 149
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
How audits are shown
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 $0.00067 $0.01734
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00867
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00347
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00173

Measured 10d ago against content hash eb6de9d21c5f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

changelog-composer 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/changelog-composer/SKILL.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Changelog Composer

Transforms raw git history and PR descriptions into polished, audience-appropriate changelogs. Parses conventional commits, classifies changes by impact category, filters internal-only modifications, and produces structured release notes with PR links — following Keep a Changelog conventions.

Reference Files

File Contents Load When
references/conventional-commits.md Commit type parsing, scope extraction, breaking change indicators Repository uses conventional commits
references/categorization-rules.md Change classification logic, audience filtering, severity ordering Always
references/audience-filter.md User-facing vs internal change detection, exclusion patterns Always
references/changelog-formats.md Keep a Changelog, GitHub Releases, announcement copy templates Format selection needed

Prerequisites

  • git — access to the repository history
  • gh (optional) — GitHub CLI for PR description extraction
  • A tagging strategy (semver tags) for identifying release boundaries

Workflow

Phase 1: Gather Raw Changes

Collect all changes between the previous release and the current state:

  1. Identify boundaries — Find the last release tag: git describe --tags --abbrev=0. If no tags exist, use the initial commit or a user-specified starting point.
  2. Extract commitsgit log <last-tag>..HEAD --oneline --no-merges
  3. Extract PR titlesgh pr list --state merged --base main --search "merged:>YYYY-MM-DD" or parse merge commit messages.
  4. Parse conventional commits — If the repository follows conventional commits (feat:, fix:, docs:, etc.), extract type, scope, and description. See references/conventional-commits.md.
  5. Collect breaking change indicators — Look for BREAKING CHANGE: in commit bodies, ! after type (feat!:), or explicit annotations in PR descriptions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 10d ago First seen · 166 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A eb6de9d21c5f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

changelog-composer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mathews-Tom/armory (316 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,734 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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