release-notes

A release-writing helper for ToolHive that reviews the changes merged between two version tags, which mark successive software releases, and drafts GitHub release notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when publishing a ToolHive release from a GitHub release URL or version tag, including when you need a formatted summary of changes and compatibility risks.
Why use it?
It gathers the relevant pull requests and issues and checks for breaking changes, reducing the manual work needed to explain a release accurately.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/stacklok/toolhive/release-notes
Any agent
npx skills add stacklok/toolhive --skill release-notes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stacklok/toolhive

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,410 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 $0.00064 $0.02410
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01205
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00482
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00241

Measured yesterday against content hash 4b63b1355bb0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-notes 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/skills/release-notes/SKILL.md · 257 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 257 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Notes Generator

Produces publication-ready GitHub release notes by deeply analyzing every PR merged between two version tags.

Arguments

/release-notes https://github.com/stacklok/toolhive/releases/tag/v0.18.0
/release-notes v0.18.0

Input: $ARGUMENTS — a GitHub release URL or a tag name.


Phase 1: Gather Raw Data

Step 1: Resolve the release and prior tag

# If given a URL, extract the tag from the path
# Then find the immediately preceding release tag
gh release view <tag> --json tagName,name,body,publishedAt
git tag --sort=-v:refname | grep -A1 "^<tag>$" | tail -1

Store:

  • CURRENT_TAG (e.g., v0.18.0)
  • PREVIOUS_TAG (e.g., v0.17.0)
  • PUBLISHED_AT date

Step 2: Get the auto-generated changelog

Fetch the existing release body. GitHub's auto-generated "What's Changed" block (PR title by @author with links) will be preserved verbatim as the commit log at the bottom of the final output. Save it as AUTO_CHANGELOG.

Step 3: List all PRs between tags

gh api repos/stacklok/toolhive/compare/{PREVIOUS_TAG}...{CURRENT_TAG} \
  --jq '.commits[] | "\(.sha[0:8]) \(.commit.message | split("\n")[0])"'

Extract every PR number from commit messages (look for (#NNNN) suffixes). Exclude the release PR itself (e.g., "Release vX.Y.Z").

Step 3b: Separate dependency PRs

Filter out PRs authored by renovate[bot], dependabot[bot], or with labels containing dependencies. These go directly into the Dependencies section — they do not need expert review or further classification. Record them separately.

Step 4: Fetch PR details

For each PR, fetch:

  • Title, labels, body
  • Whether the "Breaking change" checkbox is checked in the body
  • Linked issues (look for Closes #N, Fixes #N, Part of #N, Resolves #N)
  • Migration guide content (if present in the PR body)
gh pr view <number> --json title,labels,body

Step 5: Fetch linked issue details

For each unique linked issue number, fetch title and labels:

Read the full file on GitHub · 257 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. yesterday First seen · 257 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 4b63b1355bb0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-notes is a skill published in the GitHub repository stacklok/toolhive (2,056 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 2,410 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 2026-08-30.

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