release-notes

A writing aid that turns a list of software changes into notes for the people using the product.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to group changes into new features, fixes, and behaviour changes, then produce a short introduction and bullet list.
Why use it?
It removes internal implementation details and focuses the update on changes users can see or feel.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 234 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 $0.00031 $0.00234
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00117
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00047
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00023

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7eb854a54bae, 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 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.

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.

examples/demo-plugin/skills/release-notes/SKILL.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Release notes

Write notes for the people who use the software, not the people who wrote it.

Process

  1. Group changes by what a user would notice: new capabilities, fixed behaviour, and things that now work differently.
  2. Drop anything with no user-visible effect — refactors, test changes, dependency bumps that changed nothing observable.
  3. Lead each entry with the effect, not the mechanism. "Workflows resume after a dashboard stop" beats "added handle_dashboard_stop".

Delegating

When the notes need a second opinion on tone or padding, hand the draft to the demo:editor subagent rather than revising in place. It is tuned to cut filler, and asking it is the point of enabling this plugin — the skill and the subagent ship together.

Output

A short intro line, then grouped bullets. No version numbers unless you were given one.

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 · 31 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 7eb854a54bae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-notes is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/conductor (408 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 234 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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