check-claude-changelog

check-claude-changelog is a skill for Claude Code from noahlz/claude-plugins. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,087 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A skill that checks the Claude Code changelog, the record of changes to Claude Code, for updates relevant to a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you explicitly want to review Claude Code updates, optionally starting from a version such as 2.1.50.
Why use it?
It avoids manually searching release notes and helps identify changes since the last commit or a specified Claude Code version.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the dev-workflow plugin — 10 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when you explicitly want to review Claude Code updates, optionally starting from a version such as 2.1.50.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/noahlz/claude-plugins/check-claude-changelog
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 noahlz/claude-plugins --skill check-claude-changelog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/noahlz/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 4 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,087 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 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 $0.00032 $0.01087
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00544
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00217
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00109

Measured 11d ago against content hash 92c1b2c4f475, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

check-claude-changelog scanned grade B with 2 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/fetch-changelog.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

2. `~/.claude/settings.json` — user-level settings and hooks

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Bash(curl *)
plugins/dev-workflow/skills/check-claude-changelog/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Check for Claude Code updates relevant to the current project.

Activate only on /check-claude-changelog or explicit request about Claude Code updates.

Arguments

Optional: since <version> — show changes since a specific version (e.g. /check-claude-changelog since 2.1.50).

When no argument is provided, defaults to showing changes since the last git commit date.


Skill Context

SKILL_BASE_DIR: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}

VERSION CHECK: If SKILL_BASE_DIR above shows literal ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} instead of a real path, halt: "This skill requires Claude Code 2.1.69 or higher."

Node.js Check: !node "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../lib/check-node-version.js"

HALT if Node.js Check shows ERROR.

Rules

Rule Behavior
DELEGATE_TO Read the referenced file, execute its instructions, return here.
Narration Narrate only STEP_DESCRIPTION steps; all others silent.
Script output Scripts return JSON: status ("success" or "error"), data or message.

Workflow

0. Parse Arguments

If since <version> argument found (must match \d+\.\d+\.\d+): set sinceVersion, skip Step 1, proceed to Step 2.

Otherwise: proceed to Step 1.

1. Get Last Commit Date

STEP_DESCRIPTION: "Checking last commit date"

Run: git log -1 --format="%aI %h %s" HEAD

If the repo has commits: note the ISO date, short date, short SHA, and subject.

If no commits: default to 30 days ago. Note "No commits found — showing recent versions."

2. Fetch Changelog

STEP_DESCRIPTION: "Fetching Claude Code changelog"

If sinceVersion is set:

node "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/fetch-changelog.js" --since-version "{{sinceVersion}}"

Otherwise:

node "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/fetch-changelog.js" --since "{{last_commit_date}}"

On success: the script writes the full changelog to a temp file. Use the Read tool on the changelogFile path from the JSON output to get the content. DO NOT fetch the changelog again — use this file for all subsequent steps.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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.

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. 11d ago First seen · 145 lines · 32 tokens per session scan B 92c1b2c4f475

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check-claude-changelog is a skill published in the GitHub repository noahlz/claude-plugins (5 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,087 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.