ai-changelog

ai-changelog is a skill for Claude Code from sammcj/agentic-coding. It costs 81 tokens per session (1,905 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A system for keeping a changelog, a dated record of changes made to a project, with instructions that AI agents can follow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add or improve changelog management in software projects or non-code collections such as documentation, research, notes, or configuration files.
Why use it?
It prevents change records from becoming inconsistent and separates release versioning from the act of recording changes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it to add or improve changelog management in software projects or non-code collections such as documentation, research, notes, or configuration files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sammcj/agentic-coding/ai-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 sammcj/agentic-coding --skill ai-changelog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sammcj/agentic-coding

Made for: Claude Code.

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
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sammcj/agentic-coding/ai-changelog"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sammcj/agentic-coding/ai-changelog.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,905 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00081 $0.01905
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00953
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00381
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00191

Measured 7d ago against content hash c51732c2ffa1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/version.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/ai-changelog/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI-Driven Changelog

Set up a changelog system AI agents maintain during development. Two shapes, chosen by project type:

  • Software projects: agents write entries under ## [Unreleased]; automation stamps version numbers at release time (CalVer or SemVer). No agent ever writes version numbers; the build process handles that.
  • Non-code projects (no build system): agents add terse bullets under a date heading (## YYYY-MM-DD) by hand. No script, no version numbers. See references/dated.md.

Setup workflow

  1. Detect the build system: Check for Makefile, Justfile, package.json, Cargo.toml, pyproject.toml, go.mod. Note which config files contain a "version" field.

  2. Check whether this is a software project at all. If there's no build system from step 1 and no version convention (a docs repo, writing or notes vault, content site, research or config collection), use Dated mode: date-based changelog headings, no version script, no build integration. Skip straight to references/dated.md and ignore the script/build steps below. Otherwise, detect the versioning scheme by inspecting (highest confidence first):

    • CHANGELOG.md heading style: ## [YYYY.M.N] headings → CalVer; ## [X.Y.Z] headings or prose mentioning "SemVer" → SemVer
    • Git tags from git tag --list | head: vX.Y.Z → SemVer; YYYY.M.N → CalVer
    • VERSION file with content matching ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+ → SemVer
    • Manifest version field (package.json, Cargo.toml, pyproject.toml) matching X.Y.Z → SemVer

    If signals are absent or contradictory, ask the user. Suggest SemVer for projects with established version history (existing tags, manifest versions, prior changelog entries) and CalVer for greenfield projects where automatic versioning is preferable. Each scheme has trade-offs documented in its reference file.

  3. Read the scheme reference that matches the chosen scheme. It contains the build integration recipes, CLAUDE.md snippet, GitHub Actions pattern, and scheme-specific gotchas:

    • CalVer → references/calver.md
    • SemVer → references/semver.md
    • Dated (non-code projects) → references/dated.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 7d ago First seen · 85 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A c51732c2ffa1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ai-changelog is a skill published in the GitHub repository sammcj/agentic-coding (160 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,905 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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