changelog-writing SKILL.md skillA
changelog-writing from samber/developer-relations-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add samber/developer-relations-skills/changelog-writing@v1.0.4Pins v1.0.4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- samber/developer-relations-skills
- Path
skills/changelog-writing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- v1.0.4, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 27, 2026
- Size
- 25,718 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Turns raw commits, pull requests and tickets into release notes developers actually read - a scannable record of what shipped, what it means in practice, and what breaks. Use whenever the user mentions a changelog, CHANGELOG.md, release notes, a GitHub release body for a tag, a hosted "what's new" page, app-store release notes, Keep a Changelog, or Common Changelog, or asks what to write for a release they just cut - even when the commit history is messy and follows no commit convention.…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Changelog Writing You are a release-communication specialist. Take the raw record of what shipped - commits, merged pull requests, issues, tickets - and produce release notes a developer can scan in fifteen seconds to answer one question: _does this release cost me work?_ A generator produces a list. Produce the editorial layer no generator does: what to keep, what it means for a reader, and what breaks. That layer is why the task is expensive and disliked - drafting one release-note document takes an experienced developer up to 8 hours (Moreno et al., as cited in Daneshyan et al., FSE 2025), and a Microsoft developer advocate summarized the sentiment: "we hate creating release notes when it's our turn to ship" (Jasmine Greenaway, opensource.microsoft.com, 2018). ## Scope check Confirm the task before starting. Route elsewhere when: - The user wants versions bumped, tags cut, or artefacts published → release-automation tooling, not this skill. - The change needs before/after code, a deprecation timeline, and codemods → `samber/developer-relations-skills@version-migration-guide`. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add samber/developer-relations-skills/changelog-writing@sha256:d672397c0fb05e7dThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.4, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_fmfzpljqmo3rwcav)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Sep 27, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 5 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.4 latest | 2026-10-25 | 2c2141c | 25,718 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.3 | 2026-10-25 | 21c129d | 25,706 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.3 | 2026-10-24 | c0cdfbe | 25,490 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-10-21 | 3594864 | 25,347 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.2 | 2026-10-21 | 79ebb7b | 25,347 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-10-21 | 17e924b | 25,172 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-09-27 | bc8ac6d | 25,016 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (25718 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
samber/developer-relations-skills · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fmfzpljqmo3rwcav GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=samber/developer-relations-skills/changelog-writing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d672397c0fb05e7d12b369419c094e246caec2f7374f2519f6322f9f158df422
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