Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/moasq/ios-dev-agentnpx agentmods add skills/moasq/ios-dev-agent/asc-whats-new-writerWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/moasq/ios-dev-agent/asc-whats-new-writer)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/moasq/ios-dev-agent/asc-whats-new-writer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/moasq/ios-dev-agent/asc-whats-new-writer/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/moasq/ios-dev-agent/asc-whats-new-writer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/moasq/ios-dev-agent/asc-whats-new-writer.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00036 | $0.01635 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00817 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00327 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00163 |
Grade A, and why
asc-whats-new-writer 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.
This is a copy
95% identical to asc-whats-new-writer — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
asc What's New Writer
Generate engaging, localized release notes from flexible input. Optionally pair with promotional text updates.
Preconditions
- Metadata pulled locally into canonical files via
asc metadata pull --app "APP_ID" --version "1.2.3" --dir "./metadata". OR: user provides keywords manually. - Auth configured for upload (
asc auth loginorASC_*env vars). - The primary locale is
en-USunless the user specifies otherwise.
Before You Start
- Read
references/release_notes_guidelines.mdfor tone, structure, and examples. - Identify the latest version directory under
metadata/version/(highest semver). Use this for all metadata reads. - Enumerate existing locales by listing the JSON files in that version directory.
Phase 1: Gather Input
Accept one of three input modes (auto-detect):
Git Log
Parse commits since the last tag:
# Find latest tag
git describe --tags --abbrev=0
# List commits since that tag
git log $(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)..HEAD --oneline --no-merges
Filter out noise: merge commits, dependency bumps, CI changes, formatting-only commits. Extract user-facing changes.
Bullet Points
User provides rough bullets like:
- "improved search"
- "fixed crash on launch"
- "added sleep timer"
Free Text
User describes changes conversationally:
"We made search faster, fixed that annoying crash when you open the app, and added a sleep timer feature"
The skill extracts and structures the changes from the text.
No Input Provided
Prompt the user: "What changed in this release? You can paste git log output, bullet points, or just describe the changes."
Phase 2: Draft Notes (Primary Locale)
Step 1: Classify Changes
Group changes into sections per the guidelines:
- New — new features or capabilities
- Improved — enhancements to existing features
- Fixed — bug fixes users would notice
Omit empty sections. If all changes are fixes, only show "Fixed."
Step 2: Write Benefit-Focused Copy
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 186 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 37ab0922df16
asc-whats-new-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository moasq/ios-dev-agent (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,635 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to asc-whats-new-writer, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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