changelog

changelog is a skill for Claude Code from reidemeister94/development-skills. It costs 26 tokens per session (613 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for maintaining `CHANGELOG.md`, the file that records notable changes between software releases. It follows Keep a Changelog and Semantic Versioning conventions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add an entry, derive entries from Conventional Commits, or prepare suggested commands for a release.
Why use it?
It keeps release notes consistent and helps readers understand what changed without editing version files or creating tags.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the development-skills plugin — 16 skills, 1 agent, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to add an entry, derive entries from Conventional Commits, or prepare suggested commands for a release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/reidemeister94/development-skills/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 reidemeister94/development-skills --skill changelog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/reidemeister94/development-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install development-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 agent, 2 hooks.

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.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/reidemeister94/development-skills/changelog/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/reidemeister94/development-skills/changelog)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/reidemeister94/development-skills/changelog"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/reidemeister94/development-skills/changelog/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/reidemeister94/development-skills/changelog"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/reidemeister94/development-skills/changelog.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 613 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 $0.00026 $0.00613
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00307
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00061

Measured 10d ago against content hash a41a145f4fdd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 10d 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/changelog/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

changelog

Manage CHANGELOG.md per Keep a Changelog 1.1.0 and SemVer 2.0.0:

  • add: one entry;
  • from-commits: derive entries from Conventional Commits;
  • release: cut a version.

Edit only CHANGELOG.md. Never change version files, commit, or tag; release prints suggested commands.

Step 1 — Resolve the action

Resolve add, from-commits (commits), or release from $ARGUMENTS or the request; ask if ambiguous.

Step 2 — Pre-flight (all actions)

root=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null) || root=.
ls "$root/CHANGELOG.md" 2>/dev/null

Always use $root/CHANGELOG.md, never a cwd-relative path.

  • Existing: read and preserve style.
  • Missing for add/from-commits: create the standard linked title, intro, and ## [Unreleased] skeleton.
  • Missing for release: stop and suggest /changelog add or /changelog from-commits.

Step 3 — Insert under [Unreleased] (add, from-commits)

Append - <imperative description> to its category under [Unreleased], creating the category in canonical order. Never edit released sections or date [Unreleased].

Step 4 — Run the action

Load writing guidelines for entry rules, commit mapping, and SemVer bumps.

  • add — use the user's text or ask for one of the six categories and a ≤15-word description; tighten and insert it.
  • from-commits — follow the process below.
  • release — follow references/release.md.

from-commits

The changelog, not git tags, is the source of truth for what shipped — derive entries, don't mirror the log.

  1. Range: use <latest-tag>..HEAD; without tags, find the commit for the latest released section. Without either baseline, show the commit count and ask for all, last 30, last 100, or another range. Never silently choose all.
  2. Gather: inspect subjects and bodies; breaking footers may be in bodies.
  3. Derive: map, filter, aggregate, and deduplicate per the guidelines. Collapse a 10–20-commit feature into 1–3 user-facing entries.
  4. Confirm: show grouped proposals plus skipped or aggregated items with reasons, then insert only after approval.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 10d ago First seen · 55 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A a41a145f4fdd

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changelog is a skill published in the GitHub repository reidemeister94/development-skills (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 613 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.