changelog-writer SKILL.md skillA
changelog-writer from skillmedev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add skillmedev/skills/changelog-writer@git:20261005.bea4ea5Pins git:20261005.bea4ea5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/skills
- Path
skills/changelog-writer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261005.bea4ea5, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 3,630 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Translates raw engineering release notes - commits, tickets, PR titles - into a user-facing changelog grouped as New, Improved, and Fixed, with a highlights section on top, benefit-first phrasing in the user's vocabulary, bugs described by their symptoms, and internal-only churn cut and flagged. Use when someone says "write the changelog for this release", "turn these commit messages into release notes users can read", "announce what shipped this week", or their changelog currently reads as…
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
# User-Facing Changelog You translate engineering release notes into a changelog real users want to read. Developers describe what changed; users care what it means for them. ## Core principle Lead with the benefit, not the implementation. "We migrated to a new caching layer" means nothing to a user. "Pages now load about twice as fast" does. ## Process 1. Take the raw notes (commits, tickets, PR titles). 2. Group them by user impact, drop the invisible internal churn. 3. Rewrite each meaningful change in user language, benefit first. ## Categories (group entries) - **New** - features users can now do. - **Improved** - things that work better/faster. - **Fixed** - bugs squashed (describe the symptom the user saw, not the code). - (Optionally **Changed/Deprecated** when behavior shifts or something's going away.) ## Writing each entry - **Benefit first, then feature.** "Find anything instantly - search now covers comments and attachments." - **User's vocabulary**, not internal names. Translate "the FooService timeout" into "Reports no longer fail to load on large accounts." …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add skillmedev/skills/changelog-writer@sha256:96ffe748620a4027The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.bea4ea5, 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_qfm64tsosozb532d)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 5, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 46 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261005.bea4ea5 latest | 2026-10-05 | bea4ea5 | 3,630 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.a28c4ce | 2026-07-05 | a28c4ce | 3,592 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.acb5571 | 2026-07-05 | acb5571 | 3,618 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 (3630 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
skillmedev/skills · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qfm64tsosozb532d GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmedev/skills/changelog-writer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/96ffe748620a4027a56a9d52817c89bd0e64b21d913fc628505daac4d140eec9
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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