update-changelog

update-changelog is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tobihagemann/turbo. It costs 68 tokens per session (458 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for adding a concise entry to the Unreleased section of a project's CHANGELOG.md based on current code changes. A changelog records notable changes between software releases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when recording a user-visible feature, fix, or other change that should appear in the next release.
Why use it?
It prevents useful changes from being forgotten and avoids duplicate or misleading release notes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when recording a user-visible feature, fix, or other change that should appear in the next release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tobihagemann/turbo/update-changelog
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 tobihagemann/turbo --skill update-changelog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tobihagemann/turbo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 458 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00068 $0.00458
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00229
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00046

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1a6e2e5a5816, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

update-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 8d 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.

claude/skills/update-changelog/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

Update Changelog

Update the Unreleased section of the changelog based on the current changes.

Step 1: Run /changelog-rules Skill

Run the /changelog-rules skill to load shared changelog conventions.

Step 2: Check for Changelog

Use git rev-parse --show-toplevel to find the repository root. Look for the changelog file per /changelog-rules. If it does not exist, skip this skill. Do not create it.

Step 3: Analyze the Changes

Determine what changed:

  • Read git diff --cached for staged changes
  • If nothing is staged, read git diff for unstaged changes
  • Use the conversation context for the intent behind the changes

Step 4: Assess Changelog-Worthiness

Apply the /changelog-rules changelog-worthiness and net-delta criteria. Skip fixes to code introduced by the same branch or PR.

If no changes are changelog-worthy, skip this skill.

Step 5: Check Existing Unreleased Entries

Read the current Unreleased section of the changelog. Look for entries that relate to the same feature or fix. This prevents duplicates across multiple commits for the same body of work.

  • If an existing entry covers the same change, update its wording only if the current commit meaningfully extends or refines the feature. Do not add a duplicate entry.

Step 6: Update the Unreleased Section

Add or update entries in the Unreleased section following /changelog-rules conventions. Create subsection headers as needed (e.g., ### Added).

Then use the TaskList tool and proceed to any remaining task.

Rules

  • Never modify released version sections. Only the Unreleased section is in scope.
  • Do not stage the modified file. Staging is handled separately.
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. 8d ago First seen · 48 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 1a6e2e5a5816

Subscribe to this mod's changes

update-changelog is a skill published in the GitHub repository tobihagemann/turbo (402 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 458 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 2026-09-03.

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