changelog

A tool for reading Claude Code release notes, assessing their effect on a repository, and applying selected changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fetch or read changelog entries, compare versions, analyze repository impact, plan edits, implement changes, verify them, and close related issues.
Why use it?
It turns new-version changes into a reviewable process instead of leaving you to find, interpret, and implement them manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/changelog
Any agent
npx skills add melodic-software/claude-code-plugins --skill changelog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,276 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00084 $0.02276
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.01138
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00455
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00228

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2b84359fea8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

changelog scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **`fetch`**. WebFetch + display a version (or latest, or a `v.X..v.Y` range) of `code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog.md` (raw markdown, the smaller, chrome-free channel; WebFetch truncates it and the rendered page alike,
plugins/claude-ops/skills/changelog/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Variables

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Scope

Ingests Claude Code changelog entries and integrates them into the repo. Covers the full arc: read upstream changes → orient on repo impact → research new features → triage with user → plan edits → implement → verify → close matching issues.

Distinct from:

  • /claude-ops:known-issues. Tracks CC bugs/workarounds. This skill integrates CC feature changes into repo config/docs
  • Any release-triage automation the consumer runs (issue filing per release). This skill IMPLEMENTS changes, holistically across a release

Input modes

Three ways to provide changelog content (priority order):

  1. User pastes text. Skill parses inline changelog from conversation context
  2. Specific version. /claude-ops:changelog apply v2.1.152 fetches that version from code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog.md
  3. Auto-detect latest. /claude-ops:changelog apply (no version) automatically fetches changelog, identifies latest version, and proceeds

Version awareness

On every apply or diff invocation, compare the target version against the active terminal's CC version, captured at load:

  • Installed CC version: !claude --version || echo "(CC version unavailable)"

  • If target version > installed version: warn user. "You're applying v2.1.152 changes but running v2.1.150. Update CC first (claude update) or changes may reference features not yet available in your session."

  • If target version = installed version: proceed normally

  • If target version < installed version: fine. Catching up on older release

Applied-version tracking

No persistent tracking file. Git history IS the tracker. Commit messages cite CC versions per Conventional Commits (chore: address Claude Code v2.1.152 changelog). The status action derives applied versions via git log --grep. Avoids drift between tracker file and git state.

Action Router

Parse $ARGUMENTS to extract the action (first token) and remaining arguments.

Action Description Detail
apply Full pipeline: ingest → explore → research → interview → plan → implement → verify → close issues See "Action: apply" below
fetch Fetch + display changelog for version(s). Read-only See "Action: fetch" below
diff Fetch + orient on repo impact. Read-only analysis table See "Action: diff" below
status Show applied versions, open issues, pending work See "Action: status" below
help Show action table (inline)

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 2d ago First seen · 180 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 2b84359fea8e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

changelog is a skill published in the GitHub repository melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (13 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 2,276 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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