generate-changelog

generate-changelog is a skill for Claude Code from sembraniteam/claude-plugins. It costs 84 tokens per session (1,374 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release-note helper that reads Git commit history and creates or updates CHANGELOG.md using the Keep a Changelog format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a new version, summarize changes since the last release, and add release notes to a changelog.
Why use it?
It removes the need to review commits and format release entries by hand. It can also determine a semantic version bump from the changes.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the changelog-manager plugin — 3 skills, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare a new version, summarize changes since the last release, and add release notes to a changelog.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add sembraniteam/claude-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install changelog-manager

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install changelog-manager, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 2 agents.

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,374 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 $0.00084 $0.01374
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00687
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00275
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00137

Measured 10d ago against content hash 001e68a7e62b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generate-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.

changelog-manager/skills/generate-changelog/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generate Changelog

Generate or update CHANGELOG.md by analyzing git commit history and formatting entries following the Keep a Changelog standard with automatic semantic version bumping.

Prerequisites

  • Git repository with conventional commits
  • jq installed (brew install jq or apt install jq)

Settings Check

Check whether .claude/changelog-manager.local.md exists:

[ -f ".claude/changelog-manager.local.md" ] && echo "exists" || echo "missing"

If missing — invoke changelog-manager:changelog-config via Skill tool to create it. Wait for it to complete before continuing.

If exists — read the current languages and platforms values; use them as defaults in the pre-flight questions below.

Pre-flight Questions

Ask all questions at once using the AskUserQuestion tool:

  1. Release notes — Do you want release notes generated after the changelog is created?
  2. Platform(s) (only if #1 = Yes) — Which platform(s)? Show current value from settings as default.
    • A. App Store
    • B. Play Store
    • C. Web
    • Accept single or multiple answers (e.g., "A", "A and B", "all").
  3. Languages (only if #1 = Yes) — Which languages? Show current value from settings as default. (Locale codes in language_REGION format, e.g. en_US, id_ID)

After answers, confirm selections:

Your selections:

  • Release notes: Yes / No
  • Platform(s): App Store / Play Store / Web (omit if release notes = No)
  • Languages: en_US, id_ID (omit if release notes = No)

Commit Analysis

Run the commit analysis script:

bash $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/analyze-commits.sh

If the script prints No changes since last release., inform the user and stop.

The JSON output contains:

Field Description
last_tag Last git tag, or v0.0.0 if none
next_version Computed next semver tag
date Today's date (YYYY-MM-DD)
commits Array of { category, message, pr, breaking } objects

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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 · 125 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 001e68a7e62b

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generate-changelog is a skill published in the GitHub repository sembraniteam/claude-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 1,374 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 2026-08-31.