rewind: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/changelog-writer/SKILL.md

changelog-writer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pdugan20/rewind. It costs 68 tokens per session (2,058 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for adding or reviewing reader-facing entries in a changelog, which records notable product changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when editing docs-mintlify/changelog.mdx or when adding, auditing, or rewriting changelog entries.
Why use it?
It keeps release notes short, consistent, and focused on what users can now do rather than on implementation details.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is pdugan20/rewind's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on rewind itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything rewind configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to pdugan20/rewind. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pdugan20/rewind/main/.agents/skills/changelog-writer/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pdugan20/rewind

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,058 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 $0.00068 $0.02058
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01029
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00412
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00206

Measured 11d ago against content hash 13db074a2a95, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

changelog-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 11d 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.

.agents/skills/changelog-writer/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Changelog Writer

Writes and audits entries in docs-mintlify/changelog.mdx. Enforces a reader-facing voice modeled on Stripe, Linear, Resend, and Mintlify: short, benefit-led, concrete, no vanity.

When to use

  • Adding a new entry after a release
  • Auditing existing entries for consistency
  • Reviewing a draft entry someone wrote for voice and length
  • Cleaning up accumulated drift across the file

The core rule

Every sentence must answer: "what can a reader now do, or rely on?" If a line describes how the team built something, cut it.

Writing rules

  1. Length. One sentence for minor changes. Two short sentences or ≤6 bullets for major releases. Anything longer is two entries pretending to be one.
  2. Voice. Active, present tense, reader as subject. "You can now filter by date" or "Listening endpoints now include apple_music_url" — not "We added date filtering" or "Date filtering has been implemented".
  3. Benefit before mechanism. Lead with the capability. Put the tool/endpoint name second. "Full article text via new get_article tool" — not "New Voyage AI integration enables get_article".
  4. Concrete nouns. Name the endpoint, field, tool, or parameter explicitly (wrap in backticks). Vague ("improvements to reading") is useless.
  5. Link out. For anything with its own doc page, link it. Don't re-explain in the changelog.
  6. No emojis. No exclamation marks. Project-wide rule and matches Stripe/Linear convention.

Anti-patterns — always cut

  • Version archaeology. "Rolls up v0.3.0 → v0.4.3 into one entry", "this release combines…". The date label does this work.
  • Vanity metrics. Coverage percentages, "rescues NYT/Reuters", "3x faster", "now supports 12 providers". Readers don't care about the work; they care about the outcome. If a number matters (a new cap, a new limit), state it flatly — no celebration.
  • Future work. "Coming soon", "planned for next release", "future: Goodreads support". Changelogs are for shipped things only. File futures in a roadmap doc.
  • Implementation trivia. Embedding model names, algorithm constants (RRF k=60, cosine, 512 dim), tokenizer details, cache TTLs, internal class names (verify_credentials method), framework specifics. Exception: if a reader can pass or observe the thing, it stays.
  • Counting the work. "12 new tools", "10 entity resources", "3 new prompts" — numbers without named items are filler. Either name the useful ones or omit.
  • Self-reference to prior entries. "As mentioned last release…", "building on the March update…". Each entry stands alone.
  • Hedged language. "We've begun rolling out", "some users may see". Either it shipped or it didn't.

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 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. 11d ago First seen · 184 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 13db074a2a95

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changelog-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository pdugan20/rewind (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 2,058 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.

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