Agent skill

Happier Release Notes

by happier-dev in happier-dev/happier

Validate and project canonical Happier release-note source, StoryDeck cards, translations, and media assets without making editorial or release-policy decisions.

MITAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Happier Release Notes

skills CLI
$ npx skills add happier-dev/happier --skill happier-release-notes -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install happier-dev/happier happier-release-notes --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/happier-dev/happier.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/happier-release-notes .claude/skills/happier-release-notes && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
happier-release-notes
GitHub stars
1.9k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
441 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
28
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Validate and project canonical Happier release-note source, StoryDeck cards, translations, and media assets without making editorial or release-policy decisions.

  • Works in 3 steps: Read apps/ui/release-notes/README.md and → Inspect… → If UI behavior changes, use the…
  • Tasks that involve Changelog and release notes
  • SKILL.md covers Read first, Canonical changelog and…, StoryDeck source and assets and Validation
  • Calls node and yarn

What it does

Happier Release Notes is an agent skill from happier-dev/happier. Validate and project canonical Happier release-note source, StoryDeck cards, translations, and media assets without making editorial or release-policy decisions.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`).

It sits in Development, covering Changelog and release notes and Translation. The repository describes itself as: Web, Desktop & Mobile client and orchestrator for Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, Pi, Cursor, Grok, Antigravity, Kimi, Augment Code, Qwen, fully end-to-end encrypted. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Changelog and release notes
  • Tasks that involve Translation

Example prompts

  • “/happier-release-notes”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Read apps/ui/release-notes/README.md and
  2. Inspect apps/ui/sources/changelog/releaseNotes/types.ts and
  3. If UI behavior changes, use the canonical UI testkit and TDD.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1f03ccd. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • node
    • yarn

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use yarn, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Happier Release Notes loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 46 tokens; SKILL.md has 441 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~46
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from happier-dev/happier at commit 1f03ccd, republished under its MIT licence (© happier-dev). 441 words, ~1,241 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/happier-release-notes/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
happier-release-notes
description
Validate and project canonical Happier release-note source, StoryDeck cards, translations, and media assets without making editorial or release-policy decisions.

Happier Release Notes

This skill owns only source-coupled release-note mechanics: the canonical changelog section schema, bounded-channel projection, StoryDeck cards, translations, assets, and generation. It does not choose release scope, group changes, write editorial prose, recommend patch/minor/major, approve content, or dispatch a release.

For those decisions, start with the private maintainer release authority:

bash
hmaint release bootstrap --repo <absolute checkout> --json

Read first

  1. Read apps/ui/release-notes/README.md and apps/ui/release-notes/releases/README.md.
  2. Inspect apps/ui/sources/changelog/releaseNotes/types.ts and apps/ui/sources/components/ui/storyDeck/storyDeckCardLimits.ts before changing card data or limits.
  3. If UI behavior changes, use the canonical UI testkit and TDD.

Canonical changelog and bounded projections

apps/ui/CHANGELOG.md is the single authored authority for one release's public Markdown and exact bounded channel text. Put this JSON comment at the start of the matching ## Release <project-release-id> - <date> section. The project release ID is a unique lowercase identifier such as 2026-08-09.1, independent of every component version. Use the date plus an ordinal, increase the ordinal for another release on that date, and keep the same ID from preview through stable. The heading is the only authored source; a workflow input only selects and verifies it:

markdown
<!-- happier-release-note-projections:v1
{
  "expo": { "message": "Approved Expo text." },
  "appStore": { "whatsNew": "Approved App Store text." },
  "playStore": { "whatsNew": "Approved Play Store text." },
  "storyDeck": { "summary": "Approved StoryDeck text." }
}
-->

## Public heading

Approved public Markdown follows here.

The comment is removed from the GitHub/rolling Markdown projection. The script publishes every bounded string exactly as authored—there is no truncation, translation, synthesis, or AI rewrite. Expo is the currently consumed required projection. App Store, Play Store, and StoryDeck projections are optional until the selected release surfaces consume them; when present they are validated. Limits are: Expo 1,024; App Store 4,000; Play 500; StoryDeck 280. The section must contain meaningful public Markdown after the comment.

Project the release with its source identity and independently versioned components:

bash
node scripts/pipeline/release/release-notes/project-release-notes.mjs \
  --release-id <project-release-id> \
  --source-sha <40-lowercase-git-sha> \
  --component-version ui=<ui-semver> \
  --component-version cli=<cli-semver> \
  --component-version stack=<stack-semver> \
  --component-version server=<server-semver> \
  --changelog apps/ui/CHANGELOG.md

The v2 bundle records { id, sourceSha, components }; it does not treat the UI version as a project-wide release identity. Workflow callers must pass the human-authored project ID, the release source SHA they already verified, and every applicable component version, then validate the v2 bundle before use.

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StoryDeck source and assets

  1. Add or update apps/ui/release-notes/releases/<releaseId>.json only with already-approved card content.
  2. Add each referenced translation key to every locale under apps/ui/sources/text/translations/.
  3. Register image-card and video-poster local assets in sources/components/ui/storyDeck/storyDeckBundledAssetRegistry.ts.
  4. Put remote video and optional fallback media in apps/ui/release-notes/assets/<releaseId>/.
  5. Run from apps/ui:
bash
yarn tsx sources/scripts/parseReleaseNotes.ts
  1. Confirm only the generated release-note manifest/index outputs changed.

For remote assets, build and publish only through the canonical scripts:

bash
node scripts/pipeline/release/release-notes/build-release-notes-assets.mjs
node scripts/pipeline/release/release-notes/publish-release-notes-assets.mjs --dry-run

Do not upload or modify a GitHub release unless separately authorized.

Validation

bash
node --test scripts/release/release_notes_projection.contract.test.mjs
cd apps/ui && yarn vitest run --config vitest.config.ts \
  sources/changelog/releaseNotes/schema.test.ts \
  sources/scripts/parseReleaseNotes.test.ts

These checks validate structure, source identity, selected bounded fields, and asset/translation references. They must not judge editorial wording or release selection.

Issue stage:* labels and issue comments are not release-note source. The owning release workflow reconciles availability after verification according to docs/issue-triage.md; keep editorial projection and issue lifecycle as separate consumers of the same proven release.

© happier-dev, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in .agents/skills/happier-release-notes of happier-dev/happier.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1f03ccd

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Questions about Happier Release Notes

What does Happier Release Notes do?

Validate and project canonical Happier release-note source, StoryDeck cards, translations, and media assets without making editorial or release-policy decisions. Happier Release Notes is an agent skill from happier-dev/happier. Validate and project canonical Happier release-note source, StoryDeck cards, translations, and media assets without making editorial or release-policy decisions.

When should I use Happier Release Notes?

Happier Release Notes fits situations like: tasks that involve Changelog and release notes; tasks that involve Translation.

How do I install Happier Release Notes in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add happier-dev/happier --skill happier-release-notes -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/happier-release-notes in happier-dev/happier) into .claude/skills/happier-release-notes in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Happier Release Notes in Codex?

Run `npx skills add happier-dev/happier --skill happier-release-notes -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/happier-release-notes in happier-dev/happier) into .agents/skills/happier-release-notes in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Happier Release Notes in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add happier-dev/happier --skill happier-release-notes -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/happier-release-notes, .gemini/skills/happier-release-notes, .github/skills/happier-release-notes and .opencode/skills/happier-release-notes in your project.

What does Happier Release Notes need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Happier Release Notes needs the command-line tools its instructions call (node and yarn).

Does Happier Release Notes access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Happier Release Notes safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Happier Release Notes use?

Happier Release Notes is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Happier Release Notes use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Happier Release Notes?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Happier Release Notes: DeepChat Release Process (ThinkInAIXYZ/deepchat, 6.4k stars), D2mcpp Authoring (mcpp-community/d2mcpp, 1.8k stars), Pre Release (ZhuoZhuoCrayon/throttled-py, 651 stars) and Pulse Release (qunqin24/Pulse, 516 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Happier Release Notes?

happier-dev (a GitHub organization) maintains it in happier-dev/happier, which has 1,883 GitHub stars. The repository holds 28 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: happier-dev/happier on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.