changes-report

A guide for summarizing all repository changes that entered a target branch during a specified date or period, grouped by product change rather than by commit or pull request.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for daily, weekly, or date-range change reports, including summaries of affected behavior and evidence from the repository.
Why use it?
It turns scattered version-control history into a plain-English account of what changed and why it matters, while requiring exact time boundaries.

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/yarlson/yarstack/changes-report
Any agent
npx skills add yarlson/yarstack --skill changes-report
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yarlson/yarstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 927 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 $0.00054 $0.00927
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00464
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00093

Measured yesterday against content hash fa88ae0bd566, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

changes-report 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.

plugins/yarstack/skills/changes-report/SKILL.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Report Changes for a Period

Produce one evidence-based account of what changed and why it matters, independent of commit and pull request boundaries.

Required Input

Require a date or period. Accept a single YYYY-MM-DD date, an explicit start and end date, or a clear relative period such as today, this week, or last week. If the user did not specify one, ask which date or period to report and stop. If it cannot be resolved to exact bounds, ask for a precise date or period and stop.

Use the repository's local timezone unless the user specifies another timezone. Treat a single date as the half-open period from 00:00 on that date to 00:00 on the next date. Treat an explicit end date as inclusive by ending at 00:00 on the following date. Resolve calendar weeks from Monday at 00:00. End a relative period that includes the present, such as today or this week, at the current time; use full calendar bounds for completed periods such as yesterday or last week.

Before inspecting changes, record the resolved start, exclusive end, timezone, and human-readable period label. Use those exact bounds throughout the report.

Workflow

  1. Confirm the repository and target branch. Use the current repository and branch when the user does not name them.
  2. Find each merge, squash, and direct commit added to the target branch during the period, using first-parent history and committer time to define inclusion. Inspect the net change from the branch state immediately before the period through its final in-period state, then inspect individual diffs, full changed files, tests, configuration, and relevant surrounding code as needed. Account for changes inside merge commits without counting their constituent commits twice.
  3. Use the authenticated gh CLI when available to read GitHub commit metadata, linked pull requests, pull request descriptions, reviews, and issue context. Prefer gh over browser scraping or ad hoc GitHub API calls. Fall back to local evidence or another authorized read-only tool when gh is unavailable or the repository is not hosted on GitHub. Treat this material as evidence of intent, not proof of behavior, and do not require network access when repository evidence is enough.
  4. Apply changes-explain to identify changed behavior, ownership, boundaries, external effects, compatibility, operations, and risk. Separate observed behavior, documented intent, and inference.
  5. Reconcile overlapping evidence into product changes. Combine commits and pull requests that serve the same user, operator, or business outcome. Split one pull request when it contains distinct outcomes. Do not use commits, pull requests, files, or authors as the report's organizing structure.
  6. Explain why each change was made when evidence supports it and what it means for users, operators, developers, or the business. Include implementation detail only when a reader needs it to understand the effect, constraint, risk, or evidence limit. Never invent a rationale.
  7. Use text-improve on the complete draft. Remove jargon, vague abstractions, repeated meaning, needless qualifiers, and low-level narration while preserving technical precision.

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 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. yesterday First seen · 57 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A fa88ae0bd566

Subscribe to this mod's changes

changes-report is a skill published in the GitHub repository yarlson/yarstack (3 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 927 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 2026-08-31.

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