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How The Lossless Group writes and structures changelog/ entries across all repos (projects, true monorepos, pseudomonorepos). Use whenever shipping or pushing a coherent chunk of work, when scaffolding a new repo's changelog/ directory, when authoring a product release message, when the user says "log this", "write a changelog", or "ship note", or when reviewing a changelog/ file. Also fires when the user drops screenshots for an entry or the work being logged is visual — composes with…

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# Changelog Conventions

> **The single most important rule: it exists.** Everything else is refinement.

Every Lossless repo at every level (project, true monorepo, pseudomonorepo) should have a `changelog/` directory at the root, parallel to `context-v/`. Entries are written when meaningful chunks of work ship — or at least when they push.

**Changelog First Development** is a working Lossless theory: a fast-moving, meaningful changelog signals momentum to clients, audiences, contributors, and your own future self. The bus is leaving. The cruise ship is full. See `references/changelog-first-development.md`.

## When to use this skill

- You just shipped or pushed a coherent chunk of work
- The user drops screenshots for an entry, or the work being logged is visual enough that prose alone undersells it (compose with [[prep-images-for-embed]])
- The user says "log this", "write a changelog", "ship note", "publish update"
- Scaffolding a new repo's `changelog/` directory
- Reviewing or updating an existing changelog entry
- Authoring a product release message (see `releases/` subfolder below)

## When to write an entry

**Yes:**
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Source

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lossless-group/lossless-agent-skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main

API

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