change-description-authoring

change-description-authoring is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Netcracker/qubership-ai-packages. It costs 174 tokens per session (8,089 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for writing the three descriptions that accompany a code change: the commit message, pull request description, and changelog or release-note entry. It considers readers such as reviewers, maintainers, on-call engineers, and people upgrading the software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before committing code or opening a pull request, and when preparing changelog entries, release notes, or revised change descriptions.
Why use it?
A code change is read at different times by people who were not present when it was made. A description that only satisfies the reviewer may not explain the change to someone debugging it months later or deciding whether to upgrade.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it before committing code or opening a pull request, and when preparing changelog entries, release notes, or revised change descriptions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/netcracker/qubership-ai-packages/change-description-authoring
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 Netcracker/qubership-ai-packages --skill change-description-authoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Netcracker/qubership-ai-packages

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin change-description-authoring/plugin install change-description-authoring after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 174 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,089 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 $0.00174 $0.08089
Opus 5 $0.00087 $0.04045
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.01618
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00809

Measured 6d ago against content hash cd3ee460024d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

change-description-authoring 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 6d 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.

agent-packages/change-description-authoring/.apm/skills/change-description-authoring/SKILL.md · 559 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 559 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Authoring a change description

This skill governs what a change description says, in what order, and for whom. Wording, tense, mood, sentence length, punctuation, and dialect belong to english-developer-style; load it too, and let it own the sentences. Subject length limits, prefix grammar, and trailer syntax belong to commitlint or the platform, not to a prompt.

A change description is three artifacts written at once: the commit message, the pull request description, and the changelog entry. They are read by five readers, at five different moments, holding five different things. The rules below name the reader every time, because the same sentence is essential to one reader and noise to another, and the only way to decide is to ask whose question it answers.

1. The correction that matters most

Write for the readers who are not in the room. The reviewer can ask; the other four cannot. The archaeologist holds a line of code years later, the on-call engineer holds a stack trace at 3 a.m., the upgrading user holds release notes, and the backporter holds a list of subjects. Each of them has one artifact and one search string, and a description that answers the reviewer's questions in the pull request while leaving git log with a title has served the one reader who needed it least.

Reader Holds Opens Asks
R1 Reviewing maintainer The diff The pull request description Was something wrong? Is this behavior right? How was it checked? What is left out?
R2 Archaeologist A line of code, via git blame The commit message Why does this exist? Why this approach? Which constraint forced it?
R3 On-call engineer A stack trace or a log line, and a version The changelog, then the commit a bisect reaches Is this my incident? What triggers it? Am I on an affected version? Is there a workaround?
R4 Upgrading user The version they run and the one they want The release notes What changed that I can observe? Is it compatible? What must I do?
R5 Backporter A maintenance branch Labels, trailers, and the subject list Is this a fix? How severe? Which versions? Does it need another change first?

Read the full file on GitHub · 559 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. 6d ago First seen · 559 lines · 174 tokens per session scan A cd3ee460024d

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change-description-authoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository Netcracker/qubership-ai-packages (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 174 tokens to every session and 8,089 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-09-05.

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