changelog

changelog is a skill for Claude Code from tony/skills. It costs 13 tokens per session (6,333 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that turns branch commits and pull request details into proposed entries for a project's changelog, the file that records notable changes. It places them in the unreleased section after you review them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft changelog entries from ongoing development work and add the reviewed entries to the changelog.
Why use it?
It removes the need to read and categorize commits manually while avoiding guesses about which software version will contain the changes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to draft changelog entries from ongoing development work and add the reviewed entries to the changelog.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tony/skills/changelog
View source ↗ tony/skills
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 tony/skills --skill changelog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tony/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tony/skills/changelog/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tony/skills/changelog)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tony/skills/changelog"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tony/skills/changelog/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for changelog

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tony/skills/changelog"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tony/skills/changelog.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,333 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 $0.00013 $0.06333
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.03166
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.01267
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00633

Measured 10d ago against content hash b64c79a32aca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

.agents/skills/changelog/SKILL.md · 445 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 445 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Changelog Entry Generator

Generate well-formatted changelog entries from the current branch's commits and PR context. This command analyzes commits, categorizes them, and inserts entries into the changelog file after user review.

Additional context from user: $ARGUMENTS


Core Constraint: A Branch Is Not a Release

This command documents changes; it does not ship them. Every run is release-agnostic unless the user explicitly says otherwise (see The one exception below). Regardless of what the branch is named, what the commits contain, or how release-shaped the work looks:

  • Never create, rename, or date a version heading (## v1.53.0, ## [1.2.3] - YYYY-MM-DD). Entries land in the unreleased section.
  • Never state or predict which version the changes will land in — not in entry text, not in headings, not in the commit message, not in the summary shown to the user. The next version isn't knowable from a branch: other work may land first, the size of the bump depends on what else ships, and the maintainer decides when to cut.
  • Never derive a version from the commits. A breaking change in the diff does not make this 2.0.0; a feat does not make it a minor bump. Do not reason about SemVer at all.
  • Never edit version files (pyproject.toml, package.json, Cargo.toml, __about__.py, version.*, …), create tags, or convert an existing Unreleased / placeholder heading into a version heading.

If the changelog has no unreleased section, ask the user what to call it — mirroring the project's own convention — and create that, never a version heading.

The one exception

Cut or prepare a release only when the user explicitly asks for one and the version is settled — e.g. "cut v1.53.0", "prepare the 2.0 release", "this branch is the release branch for 0.9.4, date the heading".

These are not explicit requests, and none of them authorize touching a version heading:

  • A branch named release/1.2, rc-3, or v2.
  • A milestone, label, or PR title mentioning a version.
  • A version bump already present in the branch's diff.
  • A commit message that references an upcoming release.

Read the full file on GitHub · 445 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 · 445 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A b64c79a32aca

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changelog is a skill published in the GitHub repository tony/skills (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 6,333 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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