changelog-from-commits

changelog-from-commits is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rockscy/solo-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,093 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that turns a range of Git commits into release notes for users. Git commits are records of changes made to a code project; release notes explain the user-visible changes in a new version.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when preparing a release from a tag, date, or commit reference. It is meant for products with a user-facing surface, not internal code or marketing announcements.
Why use it?
It removes developer-focused implementation details and organizes a batch of changes into additions, noticeable fixes, and a brief internal summary.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when preparing a release from a tag, date, or commit reference. It is meant for products with a user-facing surface, not internal code or marketing announcements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rockscy/solo-skills/changelog-from-commits
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 rockscy/solo-skills --skill changelog-from-commits
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rockscy/solo-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,093 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 $0.00055 $0.01093
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00547
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00109

Measured 12d ago against content hash b6104ec4d9fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

changelog-from-commits 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 12d 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-from-commits/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Changelog from Commits / 提交转更新日志

When to use

  • The user is cutting a release and needs user-facing release notes.
  • There is a clear range: a tag, a date, or a commit SHA to diff from.
  • The audience is users, not contributors (Conventional Commits already exists for the latter).

When NOT to use

  • The repo has no user-facing surface (internal libraries, scripts) — a commit log is fine.
  • The range covers months of work. Break it into smaller releases first.
  • The user wants a marketing post — that's launch-tweet, not a changelog.

Approach

  1. Get the raw commit list:
    git log <prev-tag>..HEAD --pretty=format:"%h %s%n%b" --no-merges
    
  2. Group commits into three buckets, in this order:
    • Added — net-new user-visible capability.
    • Changed / Fixed — behavior that users would notice.
    • Internal — refactors, deps, docs (collapse into a single line at the bottom).
  3. Translate from dev-speak to user-speak.
    • ❌ "refactor: extract validation middleware"
    • ✅ (skip — internal)
    • ❌ "fix: handle null in payment.processor"
    • ✅ "Fixed a crash when applying coupons to gift cards."
  4. Drop noise. Typo fixes, README tweaks, CI tweaks, version bumps → cut.
  5. Each bullet is one sentence, past tense, user perspective.
  6. If a bullet needs more than one sentence, it deserves its own blog post — link out.

Output format

## v<version> — YYYY-MM-DD

### Added
- <bullet>

### Changed
- <bullet>

### Fixed
- <bullet>

### Internal
- <one-line summary>: deps bumped, tests added, docs polished.

Skip empty sections entirely.

Worked example

Input commits:

a1b2c3d feat: add CSV export to reports
e4f5g6h fix: correct rounding in monthly totals
1a2b3c4 chore: bump axios to 1.7.5
9z8y7x6 refactor: split UserService
5d4c3b2 docs: fix typo in README
abcdef0 feat: dark mode toggle

Output:

## v1.4.0 — 2026-04-30

### Added
- CSV export for any report — find it in the report toolbar.
- Dark mode toggle in Settings → Appearance.

### Fixed
- Monthly totals now round consistently with daily totals (off-by-1¢ on edge cases).

### Internal
- Dependency updates and a service refactor; no user impact expected.

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 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. 12d ago First seen · 127 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A b6104ec4d9fb

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changelog-from-commits is a skill published in the GitHub repository rockscy/solo-skills (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,093 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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