release-app-store-changelog

release-app-store-changelog is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from patrickserrano/lacquer. It costs 42 tokens per session (816 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for turning git history into user-facing release notes for the Apple App Store.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to collect commits since a release tag and write clear notes about new features, improvements, and fixes.
Why use it?
It helps separate changes users will notice from internal refactoring, dependency updates, and developer-only work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to collect commits since a release tag and write clear notes about new features, improvements, and fixes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/patrickserrano/lacquer/release-app-store-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 patrickserrano/lacquer --skill release-app-store-changelog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/patrickserrano/lacquer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 816 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 $0.00042 $0.00816
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00408
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00082

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6dfc43a6771f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-app-store-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.

profiles/ios/skills/release-app-store-changelog/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

App Store Changelog

Overview

Generate comprehensive, user-facing changelog from git history since the last tag, then translate commits into clear App Store release notes.

Workflow

1) Collect Changes

Get commits since the last tag:

# Find the last tag
git describe --tags --abbrev=0

# List commits since last tag
git log $(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)..HEAD --oneline

# Or with more detail
git log $(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)..HEAD --pretty=format:"%h %s" --no-merges

If comparing specific refs:

git log v1.2.3..HEAD --oneline --no-merges

If no tags exist:

git log --oneline --no-merges -50  # Last 50 commits

2) Triage for User Impact

Scan commits and identify user-visible changes:

Include:

  • New features
  • UI changes
  • Behavior changes
  • Bug fixes users would notice
  • Performance improvements with visible impact

Exclude:

  • Refactors
  • Dependency bumps
  • CI changes
  • Developer tooling
  • Internal logging
  • Analytics changes (unless affecting user privacy/behavior)

Group changes by theme:

  • New: New features and capabilities
  • Improved: Enhancements to existing features
  • Fixed: Bug fixes

3) Draft App Store Notes

Write short, benefit-focused bullets:

  • Use clear verbs and plain language
  • Avoid internal jargon, ticket IDs, file paths
  • Prefer 5-10 bullets unless user specifies different length
  • Each bullet: one sentence, starts with a verb

Language guidance:

  • Translate technical terms to user-facing descriptions
  • Avoid: "API", "refactor", "nil", "crash log", "dependency"
  • Use: "Improved", "Added", "Fixed", "Updated"
  • Keep tense consistent (present or past)

Examples:

  • "Added account switching from the profile menu."
  • "Improved timeline loading speed on slow connections."
  • "Fixed media attachments not opening in full screen."

4) Validate

  • Every bullet maps to a real change in the range
  • No duplicate bullets describing the same change
  • No internal jargon or file paths
  • Final list fits App Store text limits (if provided)

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 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. 5d ago First seen · 139 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 6dfc43a6771f

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release-app-store-changelog is a skill published in the GitHub repository patrickserrano/lacquer (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 816 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.