Changelog Orchestrator

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Generating weekly/monthly release notes
• The user asks to create a changelog from recent merges
• With changelog weekly
• Generate release notes

Example prompts

• “changelog weekly”
• “generate release notes”
• “draft changelog”
• “/changelog-orchestrator”

Requirements

• Python 3
• A credential in GITHUB_TOKEN
• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash(git:*), Bash(gh:*), Bash(python:*), Bash(date:*)

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Read .changelog-config.json from the repo root.
2. 2Validate it with ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/validate_config.py.
3. 3Decide date range
4. 4Load the configured markdown template (or fall back to ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/assets/weekly-template.md).
5. 5Render the final markdown using ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/render_template.py.
6. 6Ensure frontmatter contains at least date (ISO) and version (SemVer if known; otherwise 0.0.0).
7. 7Run deterministic checks using ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/quality_score.py.
8. 8If score is below threshold
9. 9Write the changelog file to the configured output_path.
10. 10Create a branch changelog-YYYY-MM-DD, commit with docs: add changelog for YYYY-MM-DD.
11. 11If gh is configured, open a PR; otherwise, print the exact commands the user should run.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Write
  • Edit
  • Grep
  • Glob
  • Bash(git:*)
  • Bash(gh:*)
  • Bash(python:*)
  • Bash(date:*)

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Ships 3 files in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

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

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

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

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • GITHUB_TOKEN

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

• Compatibility

  Designed for Claude Code

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Changelog Orchestrator loads about 694 tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.5k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 93 tokens; SKILL.md has 214 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~93

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~694

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~1.5k

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

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 214 words, ~694 tokens.

name

changelog-orchestrator

description

Draft changelog PRs by collecting GitHub/Slack/Git changes, formatting with templates, running quality gates, and preparing a branch/PR. Use when generating weekly/monthly release notes or when the user asks to create a changelog from recent merges. Trigger with "changelog weekly", "generate release notes", "draft changelog", "create changelog PR".

allowed-tools

Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash(git:*), Bash(gh:*), Bash(python:*), Bash(date:*)

compatibility

Designed for Claude Code

version

0.4.0

author

Mattyp

license

MIT

tags

automation, changelog-orchestrator

© jeremylongshore, 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 9 other files (scripts, references, assets) in skills/.curated/changelog-orchestrator of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

• SKILL.md
• assets/default-changelog.md
• assets/release-template.md
• assets/weekly-template.md
• references/errors.md
• references/examples.md
• references/implementation.md
• scripts/quality_score.py
• scripts/render_template.py
• scripts/validate_config.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287