update-changelog

update-changelog is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mitsuhiko/agent-stuff. It costs 12 tokens per session (782 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Instructions for updating a repository's changelog with notable user-facing changes since the latest release. A changelog is a record of changes between software versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
For adding features, fixes, and breaking changes to `CHANGELOG.md` or `CHANGELOG` under the Unreleased section.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to find unreleased changes and place them in the correct section.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit For adding features, fixes, and breaking changes to CHANGELOG.md or CHANGELOG under…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mitsuhiko/agent-stuff/update-changelog
About the project

Agent Stuff is a personal package of reusable skills, extensions, prompt commands, themes, and utilities for the Pi Coding Agent. Its author uses these tools across projects, and the catalogue entries are components from this package that support that workflow.

mitsuhiko/agent-stuff · 3,058 stars · on GitHub

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 mitsuhiko/agent-stuff --skill update-changelog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mitsuhiko/agent-stuff

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for update-changelog

README.md
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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 782 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 $0.00012 $0.00782
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00391
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00078

Measured 7d ago against content hash 68f67516baaa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

update-changelog 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 7d 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/update-changelog/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Update the repository changelog with changes between the last release and the current version (main) that are not yet incorporated. If CHANGELOG.md does not exist, use CHANGELOG instead.

Step-by-Step Process

1. Determine baseline version

If no baseline version is provided, use the most recent git tag. You can find it with git describe --tags --abbrev=0.

2. Find the commits from git

Use the following commands to gather commit information:

# Get the baseline version (if not provided)
git describe --tags --abbrev=0

# Get all commits since the baseline version
git log <baseline-version>..HEAD

3. Update the changelog

Read the existing changelog file (CHANGELOG.md, or CHANGELOG if missing) and check if there are changes not yet incorporated, then add them. Always add them to the "Unreleased" section only. If there is none yet, add it at the top in the same style as the existing changelog (for example, ## Unreleased vs ## [Unreleased]).

Ground Rules When Writing Changelogs

Content Guidelines

  • Focus on notable changes that affect users (features, fixes, breaking changes)
  • Mention pull requests (#NUMBER) when available, but not raw commit hashes
  • Ignore insignificant changes (typo fixes, internal refactoring, minor documentation updates)
  • Group related changes together when appropriate
  • Order entries by importance: breaking changes first, then features, then fixes

Style Guidelines

  • Use valid markdown syntax
  • Start each entry with a past-tense verb or descriptive phrase
  • Keep entries concise but descriptive enough to understand the change
  • Use bullet points (* or -) for individual changes
  • Format code references with backticks (e.g., `foo.cleanup`)

Example Format

## 2.13.0

* Added multi-key support to the `|sort` filter.  #827
* Fix `not undefined` with strict undefined behavior.  #838
* Added support for free threading Python.  #841

## 2.12.0

* Item or attribute lookup will no longer swallow all errors in Python.  #814
* Added `|zip` filter.  #818
* Fix `break_on_hyphens` for the `|wordwrap` filter.  #823
* Prefer error message from `unknown_method_callback`.  #824
* Ignore `.jinja` and `.jinja2` as extensions in auto escape.  #832

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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. 7d ago First seen · 81 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 68f67516baaa

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update-changelog is a skill published in the GitHub repository mitsuhiko/agent-stuff (3,058 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 782 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.