changelog-format

changelog-format is a skill for Claude Code from sequenzia/agent-alchemy. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,087 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidelines for writing a changelog: a human-readable record of what changed in each software release.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or updating CHANGELOG.md entries and when following the Keep a Changelog format.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork about how to organize release notes and describe new, changed, deprecated, removed, fixed, and security-related work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the agent-alchemy-dev-tools plugin — 9 skills, 4 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sequenzia/agent-alchemy/changelog-format
Any agent
npx skills add sequenzia/agent-alchemy --skill changelog-format
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sequenzia/agent-alchemy

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-alchemy-dev-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 4 agents.

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.

agentmods badge for changelog-format

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sequenzia/agent-alchemy/changelog-format.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/sequenzia/agent-alchemy/changelog-format)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sequenzia/agent-alchemy/changelog-format"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sequenzia/agent-alchemy/changelog-format.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,087 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00036 $0.01087
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00544
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00217
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00109

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4a3649e46646, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

changelog-format 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 6d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

claude/dev-tools/skills/changelog-format/SKILL.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Keep a Changelog Format

This skill provides guidelines for writing and formatting changelogs following the Keep a Changelog specification.

Core Principles

  1. Changelogs are for humans - Write for users, not machines
  2. Every version gets a section - Including [Unreleased] for upcoming changes
  3. Changes are grouped by type - Consistent categorization
  4. Versions are linkable - Each version header links to comparison
  5. Latest version comes first - Reverse chronological order
  6. Release dates are shown - ISO format: YYYY-MM-DD

Change Categories

Use these categories in this order:

Category Description When to Use
Added New features New functionality users can now do
Changed Changes in existing functionality Behavior modifications, improvements
Deprecated Soon-to-be removed features Features marked for future removal
Removed Removed features Features that no longer exist
Fixed Bug fixes Corrections to existing functionality
Security Security vulnerability fixes Security-related changes

Category Guidelines

Added

  • New user-facing features
  • New API endpoints
  • New configuration options
  • New integrations

Changed

  • Performance improvements
  • UX/UI changes
  • Default value changes
  • Behavior modifications

Deprecated

  • Features planned for removal
  • APIs being replaced
  • Include migration path when possible

Removed

  • Breaking changes (removed functionality)
  • Deleted APIs or features
  • Always note what replaced it (if applicable)

Fixed

  • Bug corrections
  • Error handling improvements
  • Edge case fixes

Security

  • Vulnerability patches
  • Security-related fixes
  • Always include CVE if available

Entry Writing Guidelines

Use Imperative Mood

Start entries with imperative verbs:

Do Don't
Add support for... Added support for...
Fix crash when... Fixed a crash that occurred when...
Remove deprecated... Removed the deprecated...
Change default to... Changed the default to...

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 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. 6d ago First seen · 170 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 4a3649e46646

Subscribe to this mod's changes

changelog-format is a skill published in the GitHub repository sequenzia/agent-alchemy (44 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,087 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.