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Agent skill

Whats New

by meain in meain/dotfiles

List notable new tools, scripts, aliases, and config changes from recent git history

MITAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Whats New

skills CLI
$ npx skills add meain/dotfiles --skill whats-new -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install meain/dotfiles whats-new --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/meain/dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/whats-new .claude/skills/whats-new && 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
whats-new
GitHub stars
285
Token cost
~355 tokens
SKILL.md length
148 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
35
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

List notable new tools, scripts, aliases, and config changes from recent git history

  • Works in 4 steps: Get Recent Commits → Identify Alias Changes → Filter and Categorize → …
  • Tasks that involve Changelog and release notes
  • Calls git
  • Tasks that involve Git workflow

What it does

Whats New is an agent skill from meain/dotfiles. List notable new tools, scripts, aliases, and config changes from recent git history

Its SKILL.md is about 360 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Development, covering Changelog and release notes and Git workflow. The repository describes itself as: If there is a shell, there is a way! The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Changelog and release notes
  • Tasks that involve Git workflow

Example prompts

  • “/whats-new”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Get Recent Commits
  2. Identify Alias Changes
  3. Filter and Categorize
  4. Output Format

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 3e336e2. 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:

    • git

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use git, 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

Whats New loads about 355 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 24 tokens; SKILL.md has 148 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~24
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~355

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 meain/dotfiles at commit 3e336e2, republished under its MIT licence (© meain). 148 words, ~355 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/whats-new/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
whats-new
description
List notable new tools, scripts, aliases, and config changes from recent git history

Generate a concise list of notable new features from recent git history. Focus on things the user would actively use, not passive improvements or fixes.

Steps

1. Get Recent Commits
bash
git log --oneline --since="1 month ago"

If the user specifies a different time range, use that instead.

2. Identify Alias Changes

Check for new aliases that map to scripts:

bash
git log --since="1 month ago" -p -- 'zsh/.config/zsh/aliases' 'zsh/.config/zsh/.zsh-custom/*alias*'

Look for added alias lines (lines starting with +alias) to pair with new scripts.

3. Filter and Categorize

Only include items the user would actively invoke or benefit from knowing about. Skip:

  • Bug fixes, refactors, passive improvements
  • Lock file updates, flake input updates
  • Gitignore changes
  • Minor config tweaks

Categorize into:

  • New tools — new scripts or skills with their alias if one exists (format: ,script-name (alias))
  • Config changes worth remembering — non-obvious behavior changes the user should know about
4. Output Format

Use this exact format:

**New tools:**
- `,script-name` (`alias`) — one-line description

**Config changes worth remembering:**
- brief description of the change

Omit a section if empty. Keep descriptions to one line each.

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

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/whats-new of meain/dotfiles.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 3e336e2

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Whats New next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Hunk Release Workflowmodem-dev/hunk9.6k—~3.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
pybind11 Release Preparationpybind/pybind1118k—~1.7kAutomated safety check: PassCustom licence

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Categories

Questions about Whats New

What does Whats New do?

List notable new tools, scripts, aliases, and config changes from recent git history. Whats New is an agent skill from meain/dotfiles.

When should I use Whats New?

Whats New fits situations like: tasks that involve Changelog and release notes; tasks that involve Git workflow.

How do I install Whats New in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add meain/dotfiles --skill whats-new -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/whats-new in meain/dotfiles) into .claude/skills/whats-new in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Whats New in Codex?

Run `npx skills add meain/dotfiles --skill whats-new -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/whats-new in meain/dotfiles) into .agents/skills/whats-new in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Whats New 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 meain/dotfiles --skill whats-new -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/whats-new, .gemini/skills/whats-new, .github/skills/whats-new and .opencode/skills/whats-new in your project.

What does Whats New need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Whats New needs the command-line tools its instructions call (git).

Does Whats New access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Whats New 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 Whats New use?

Whats New 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 Whats New use?

About 355 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.4k 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 Whats New?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Whats New: Release Bump (jamiepine/voicebox, 57k stars), Git Workflow and Versioning (addyosmani/agent-skills, 105k stars), Go-Redis Release Preparation (redis/go-redis, 22k stars) and Hunk Release Workflow (modem-dev/hunk, 9.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Whats New?

meain (a GitHub user) maintains it in meain/dotfiles, which has 285 GitHub stars. The repository holds 35 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

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