keep-a-changelog

keep-a-changelog is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from samuelgudi/iknowkungfu. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,292 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for creating a CHANGELOG, a human-readable record of notable changes in each software release. It follows the Keep a Changelog format and explains how entries relate to semantic versioning, which communicates the impact of upgrades.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a CHANGELOG, adding notable changes, preparing release notes, or deciding whether a change belongs under Unreleased or a numbered version.
Why use it?
It prevents release notes from becoming a raw list of commits and helps users understand what changed and whether an upgrade may affect them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when starting a CHANGELOG, adding notable changes, preparing release notes, or deciding whether a change belongs under Unreleased or a numbered version.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/samuelgudi/iknowkungfu/keep-a-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 samuelgudi/iknowkungfu --skill keep-a-changelog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/samuelgudi/iknowkungfu

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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
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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,292 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 $0.00057 $0.01292
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00646
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00258
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00129

Measured 12d ago against content hash 62de8a220af8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

keep-a-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 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/samuelgudi/keep-a-changelog/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

keep-a-changelog

A changelog is a curated, human-readable list of notable changes per release. It is not a git log. The git log is a complete, machine-generated record of every commit; a changelog is a deliberate, edited summary of what a user of the project needs to know. Conflating the two produces a changelog nobody reads.

This skill follows the Keep a Changelog convention.

Use this skill when

  • A project has no CHANGELOG.md and you are adding one.
  • You are about to cut a release and need to turn the accumulated changes into release notes.
  • You made a notable change and need to decide whether — and where — it goes in the changelog.

Core principles

  • For humans, by humans. Every entry is written for a person deciding whether to upgrade and what will change for them. "Bumped dependency X" matters only if it changes observable behaviour.
  • One section per version. Reverse chronological — newest at the top.
  • An [Unreleased] section at the very top. This is where entries land as the work happens. At release time it gets a version number and a date; a fresh empty [Unreleased] takes its place.
  • Dates in ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD). Unambiguous across locales.
  • Notable, not exhaustive. Internal refactors, formatting, test-only changes, and CI tweaks usually do not belong. If it does not change what a user can observe, leave it out.

The six categories

Every entry goes under exactly one of these headings. They are fixed — do not invent new ones.

Heading For
Added New features, new public surface.
Changed Changes to existing behaviour.
Deprecated Features still present but slated for removal — warn users now.
Removed Features taken out in this release.
Fixed Bug fixes.
Security Fixes for vulnerabilities. Call these out so users know to upgrade urgently.

Within a version, list only the categories that actually have entries. A release with just bug fixes has only a Fixed heading.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 12d ago First seen · 103 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 62de8a220af8

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keep-a-changelog is a skill published in the GitHub repository samuelgudi/iknowkungfu (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,292 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.