update-changelog

update-changelog is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nweii/agent-stuff. It costs 56 tokens per session (386 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task guide for maintaining a project's changelog, which is the file that records released changes. It follows Keep a Changelog categories such as added, changed, fixed, and security.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add or revise changelog entries, create a missing changelog, group changes by type, or bump a version entry.
Why use it?
It keeps change entries organized and consistently formatted, including version headings and dates.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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/nweii/agent-stuff/update-changelog
Any agent
npx skills add nweii/agent-stuff --skill update-changelog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nweii/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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nweii/agent-stuff/update-changelog.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nweii/agent-stuff/update-changelog)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nweii/agent-stuff/update-changelog"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nweii/agent-stuff/update-changelog.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 386 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 5.1 $0.00056 $0.00386
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00193
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00039

Measured 5d ago against content hash d936ab94eea8, 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 5d 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 · 58 lines

What it actually says

Update Changelog

Update changelog files following Keep a Changelog conventions.

Usage

/update-changelog <version> <change_type> <message>

Parameters

  • <version>: Version number (e.g., "1.1.0")
  • <change_type>: One of: "added", "changed", "deprecated", "removed", "fixed", "security"
  • <message>: Description of the change

Process

  1. Check for existing changelog (CHANGELOG.md or changelog.md), create if missing
  2. Find or create section for the specified version with today's date
  3. Add the new entry under the appropriate change type heading
  4. Format according to Keep a Changelog conventions
  5. Write the updated changelog back to file

Format Conventions

  • Group changes by type (Added, Changed, Deprecated, Removed, Fixed, Security)
  • List changes as bullet points
  • Include date for version sections (YYYY-MM-DD)
  • Keep entries concise but descriptive
  • No emojis

Example Output

## [1.2.0] - 2025-01-24

### Added
- New markdown to BlockDoc conversion feature

### Fixed
- Bug in HTML renderer causing incorrect output

Plugin changelogs

For plugin changelog formats, see skill-plugin-conventions.md.

Files

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.

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. 5d ago First seen · 58 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A d936ab94eea8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

update-changelog is a skill published in the GitHub repository nweii/agent-stuff (8 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 386 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.