release-notes

A process for preparing GitHub release notes, which summarize changes included in a software version.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating a changelog for the Membrane API gateway by comparing the latest release with the master branch.
Why use it?
It organizes commits into useful sections and connects each change to its pull request.

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/membrane/api-gateway/release-notes
Any agent
npx skills add membrane/api-gateway --skill release-notes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/membrane/api-gateway

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,639 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00124 $0.01639
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.00820
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00164

Measured yesterday against content hash 0322b80b9e27, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/skills/release-notes/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release notes

Produce release notes for the next Membrane release by diffing master against the last release and turning the intervening commits into a clean, grouped, PR-linked changelog — the kind that goes on the project's GitHub Releases page.

Repo: membrane/api-gateway. PR URL pattern: https://github.com/membrane/api-gateway/pull/<N>.

1. Determine the range: <base>..master

The base is the last released version. Releases are marked by a commit whose subject is Release X.Y.Z (#PR) (immediately followed by a Snapshot version commit). The local tags lag behind, so detect the base from these commits, not from git tag.

  • If the user named a version (e.g. "since 7.2.3"), use that commit as the base:
    # Note the trailing space — git uses POSIX regex, so `\b` is NOT supported here.
    BASE=$(git log -E --grep="^Release 7\.2\.3 " --format=%H master | head -1)
    
  • Otherwise auto-detect the most recent release:
    git log -E --grep="^Release [0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+ " --format="%H %s" master | head -1
    
    Take its hash as BASE and read the version from its subject.

The new version being released is the pom version minus -SNAPSHOT:

grep -m1 '<version>' pom.xml   # e.g. 7.2.4-SNAPSHOT  ->  7.2.4

Sanity-check the range before writing anything:

git log --oneline $BASE..master | wc -l      # how many commits
git log --pretty="%s" $BASE..master          # the subjects to triage

If the range is empty (master == last release), say so and stop.

2. Collect and enrich

For each commit on $BASE..master, pull the subject and the trailing PR number:

git log --pretty="%s" $BASE..master

Most subjects end in (#NNNN) — that's the PR. Turn it into a link [#NNNN](https://github.com/membrane/api-gateway/pull/NNNN). If a subject has two trailing numbers (e.g. ... (#2988) (#2995)), the last one is the merge PR — link that one.

Read the subject for meaning; rewrite terse or type:-prefixed subjects into a user-facing sentence. Strip conventional-commit prefixes (feat:, fix:, chore:, build:, refactor:, docs:) from the displayed text — they only inform which group the entry belongs in.

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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. yesterday First seen · 121 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A 0322b80b9e27

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-notes is a skill published in the GitHub repository membrane/api-gateway (638 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 1,639 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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