Agent skill

Utility Pm Changelog Curator

by product-on-purpose in product-on-purpose/pm-skills

Draft CHANGELOG entries from git log via the pm-changelog-curator sub-agent, applying the repo hygiene rules (describe what changed, public paths only, no attribution trailers).

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedDevelopment

Install Utility Pm Changelog Curator

skills CLI
$ npx skills add product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill utility-pm-changelog-curator -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install product-on-purpose/pm-skills utility-pm-changelog-curator --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/product-on-purpose/pm-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/utility-pm-changelog-curator .claude/skills/utility-pm-changelog-curator && 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
utility-pm-changelog-curator
GitHub stars
716
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
436 words
Files
5 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
68
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Draft CHANGELOG entries from git log via the pm-changelog-curator sub-agent, applying the repo hygiene rules (describe what changed, public paths only, no attribution trailers).

  • Works in 5 steps: Read the canonical sub-agent definition… → Execute the system prompt body in that… → Run the 8-step drafting flow documented… → …
  • Banking unreleased changes
  • SKILL.md covers When to Use, When NOT to Use, Instructions and Cross-Client Notes, plus 1 more section
  • Calls git

What it does

Utility Pm Changelog Curator is an agent skill from product-on-purpose/pm-skills. Draft CHANGELOG entries from git log via the pm-changelog-curator sub-agent, applying the repo hygiene rules (describe what changed, public paths only, no attribution trailers). Returns a layered draft with a status summary for maintainer review; refuses a dirty working tree unless --committed-only is passed. Use when banking unreleased changes or preparing a release.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 6 other files, including reference files (for example `HISTORY.md`, `evals/trigger-fixtures.json` and `references/EXAMPLE.md`).

It sits in Development, covering Changelog and release notes and Subagents. It works with Git. The repository describes itself as: 68 plug-and-play, best-practice product management skills for AI agents: 30 Triple Diamond phase + 11 foundation + 12 utility + 15 tool (Foundation Sprint + Design Sprint). Plus… The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Banking unreleased changes
  • Preparing a release

Example prompts

  • “/utility-pm-changelog-curator”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Read the canonical sub-agent definition at agents/pm-changelog-curator.md
  2. Execute the system prompt body in that file as your operating instructions
  3. Run the 8-step drafting flow documented in the sub-agent definition (establish range -> read hygiene rules -> check working tree ->…
  4. Apply --since-tag, --target-version, and --committed-only arguments from $ARGUMENTS
  5. Return the layered output per master plan D26 (full CHANGELOG draft + Status Summary + Status YAML)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cef1a9. 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

Utility Pm Changelog Curator loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.7k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 100 tokens; SKILL.md has 436 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~100
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~3.7k

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 product-on-purpose/pm-skills at commit 1cef1a9, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© product-on-purpose). 436 words, ~1,078 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/utility-pm-changelog-curator/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 4 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
utility-pm-changelog-curator
description
Draft CHANGELOG entries from git log via the pm-changelog-curator sub-agent, applying the repo hygiene rules (describe what changed, public paths only, no attribution trailers). Returns a layered draft with a status summary for maintainer review; refuses a dirty working tree unless --committed-only is passed. Use when banking unreleased changes or preparing a release.
license
Apache-2.0
metadata.classification
utility
metadata.version
1.0.1
metadata.updated
2026-06-10
metadata.category
release
metadata.frameworks
triple-diamond
metadata.author
product-on-purpose
<!-- PM-Skills | https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills | Apache 2.0 -->

PM Changelog Curator (Dispatch Skill)

Cross-client dispatch wrapper for the pm-changelog-curator sub-agent. Detects runtime; dispatches to the native sub-agent on Claude Code; reads agents/pm-changelog-curator.md and executes inline on non-Claude clients.

When to Use

  • You are preparing a release and want a CHANGELOG draft from git log between two tags
  • You are running on a non-Claude AI client without native pm-changelog-curator sub-agent support
  • You want a draft that respects pm-skills CHANGELOG hygiene rules (no internal-notes references, no em-dashes, public paths only) without manually applying them

When NOT to Use

  • You want to commit CHANGELOG entries directly (this skill produces a draft for review, not a commit)
  • You want to review a PM artifact -> use utility-pm-critic instead
  • You want a repo-wide governance audit -> use utility-pm-skill-auditor
  • You want a full guided release flow -> use utility-pm-release-conductor (which chains to this skill at gate G2)

Instructions

Runtime detection step. Determine which AI client is invoking this skill.

If you are running in Claude Code with the pm-skills plugin installed

Invoke @agent-pm-skills:pm-changelog-curator with the user's arguments. Pass --since-tag, --target-version, --committed-only from $ARGUMENTS if present. Return the sub-agent's draft to the user.

If you are running in any other AI client

Codex CLI, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Gemini CLI, or any other client without native pm-skills plugin sub-agent support:

  1. Read the canonical sub-agent definition at agents/pm-changelog-curator.md
  2. Execute the system prompt body in that file as your operating instructions
  3. Run the 8-step drafting flow documented in the sub-agent definition (establish range -> read hygiene rules -> check working tree -> enumerate commits -> classify -> group -> rewrite -> determine target version -> emit draft)
  4. Apply --since-tag, --target-version, and --committed-only arguments from $ARGUMENTS
  5. Return the layered output per master plan D26 (full CHANGELOG draft + Status Summary + Status YAML)
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Cross-Client Notes

The dispatch skill requires the AI client to:

  1. Execute Bash for git log, git describe, and git status invocations
  2. Read CLAUDE.md hygiene rules and existing CHANGELOG.md format reference
  3. Read the canonical sub-agent definition file
  4. Treat the agent body as operating instructions

See Sub-Agent Compatibility Matrix for the canonical cross-client status. Summary for this skill as of v2.16.0: PRODUCTION on Claude Code + Codex CLI (Codex CLI successfully ran git log + read CLAUDE.md hygiene rules + drafted clean CHANGELOG entries + correct dirty-tree refusal); EXPERIMENTAL on Cursor / Windsurf / Copilot CLI / Gemini CLI. If a client is unreliable, fall back to manual git log + manual drafting using CLAUDE.md as the hygiene reference.

Reference Files

© product-on-purpose, Apache-2.0. 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 4 other files (references) in skills/utility-pm-changelog-curator of product-on-purpose/pm-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • HISTORY.md
  • evals/trigger-fixtures.json
  • references/EXAMPLE.md
  • references/TEMPLATE.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cef1a9

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Questions about Utility Pm Changelog Curator

What does Utility Pm Changelog Curator do?

Draft CHANGELOG entries from git log via the pm-changelog-curator sub-agent, applying the repo hygiene rules (describe what changed, public paths only, no attribution trailers). Utility Pm Changelog Curator is an agent skill from product-on-purpose/pm-skills. Draft CHANGELOG entries from git log via the pm-changelog-curator sub-agent, applying the repo hygiene rules (describe what changed, public paths only, no attribution trailers).

When should I use Utility Pm Changelog Curator?

Utility Pm Changelog Curator fits situations like: banking unreleased changes; preparing a release.

How do I install Utility Pm Changelog Curator in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill utility-pm-changelog-curator -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/utility-pm-changelog-curator in product-on-purpose/pm-skills) into .claude/skills/utility-pm-changelog-curator in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Utility Pm Changelog Curator in Codex?

Run `npx skills add product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill utility-pm-changelog-curator -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/utility-pm-changelog-curator in product-on-purpose/pm-skills) into .agents/skills/utility-pm-changelog-curator in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Utility Pm Changelog Curator 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 product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill utility-pm-changelog-curator -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/utility-pm-changelog-curator, .gemini/skills/utility-pm-changelog-curator, .github/skills/utility-pm-changelog-curator and .opencode/skills/utility-pm-changelog-curator in your project.

What does Utility Pm Changelog Curator need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Utility Pm Changelog Curator needs the command-line tools its instructions call (git).

Does Utility Pm Changelog Curator 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 Utility Pm Changelog Curator 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 Utility Pm Changelog Curator use?

Utility Pm Changelog Curator is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Utility Pm Changelog Curator use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 2.6k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Utility Pm Changelog Curator?

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Who maintains Utility Pm Changelog Curator?

product-on-purpose (a GitHub organization) maintains it in product-on-purpose/pm-skills, which has 716 GitHub stars. The repository holds 68 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

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