changelog-draft

changelog-draft is a skill for Claude Code from skilletmd/skillet. It costs 47 tokens per session (669 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for turning merged code changes or pull requests into a changelog written for software users. A changelog is a record of what changed in a release.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when preparing release notes or updating a CHANGELOG from Git history or merged pull requests.
Why use it?
It translates technical commit messages into explanations of what users can now do, what behaves differently, and which bugs or security issues were fixed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when preparing release notes or updating a CHANGELOG from Git history or merged pull requests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skilletmd/skillet/changelog-draft
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 skilletmd/skillet --skill changelog-draft
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skilletmd/skillet

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 669 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 $0.00047 $0.00669
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00334
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00134
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00067

Measured 10d ago against content hash a73e7baf1a43, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

changelog-draft 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.

skills/changelog-draft/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

changelog-draft

A changelog is for the reader deciding whether to upgrade, not a reprint of your git log. "Refactor auth middleware" means nothing to them; "you stay logged in across browser restarts now" does. This skill turns one into the other.

When to use

Cutting a release or writing release notes. Works from git history or a list of merged PRs.

Gather the raw material

# Find the last release tag (empty if the repo has none yet)
LAST=$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0 2>/dev/null)

# Commits since that tag — or the whole history if there's no tag yet
git log ${LAST:+$LAST..}HEAD --oneline

# Or merges since a date, if that's your workflow
git log --merges --since="2 weeks ago" --oneline

Group by what the reader cares about

Drop the internal categories (refactor, chore, test). Use these:

  • Added — new things the user can now do.
  • Changed — behavior that's different; flag anything that changes a default.
  • Fixed — bugs that are gone. Describe the symptom they saw, not the code you touched.
  • Deprecated / Removed — what will stop working, and what to use instead.
  • Security — vulnerabilities fixed. Always its own section; never buried.

Internal-only commits — refactors, test changes, dependency bumps with no user impact — don't go in the changelog. If nothing user-facing changed, write "Internal improvements" and stop.

Rewrite each line for the user

Commit Changelog entry
fix: null check in session loader Fixed a crash when opening the app with an expired session.
feat: add --json flag to export export now accepts --json for machine-readable output.
refactor: extract validation helper (omit — no user-facing change)

Lead each entry with what the user can do, or no longer has to worry about. Past tense, plain language, no ticket numbers mid-sentence (link them at the end if you must).

Call out breaking changes loudly

Anything that breaks existing usage goes at the top, under Breaking changes, with the exact migration step:

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 lines

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 · 65 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A a73e7baf1a43

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changelog-draft is a skill published in the GitHub repository skilletmd/skillet (3 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 669 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 2026-08-31.

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