changelog-format

changelog-format is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sequenzia/claude-plugins. It costs 11 tokens per session (1,087 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of changelog-format, MIT.

Writing guidance for changelogs, which record what changed in each software release. It follows the Keep a Changelog format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to structure a new changelog, add an Unreleased section, or write entries for features, changes, removals, fixes, and security updates.
Why use it?
It helps make release notes consistent, readable, grouped by change type, dated, and easy to compare between versions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the dev-tools plugin — 6 skills, 5 commands, 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/claude-plugins/changelog-format
Any agent
npx skills add sequenzia/claude-plugins --skill changelog-format
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sequenzia/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install dev-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 5 commands, 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/claude-plugins/changelog-format.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/sequenzia/claude-plugins/changelog-format)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sequenzia/claude-plugins/changelog-format"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sequenzia/claude-plugins/changelog-format.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 11 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 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00011 $0.01087
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00544
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00217
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00109

Measured 4d ago against content hash 300e3f6b6179, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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

This is a copy

88% identical to changelog-format — 12 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/dev-tools/skills/changelog-format/SKILL.md · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 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 · 174 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. 4d ago First seen · 174 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 300e3f6b6179

Subscribe to this mod's changes

changelog-format is a skill published in the GitHub repository sequenzia/claude-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 1,087 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to changelog-format, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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