Release Note Generation

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Asked to create release notes
• Summarize milestone PRs
• Generate changelog
• Prepare release documentation

Example prompts

• “/release-note-generation”

Requirements

• PowerShell

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 8cb9a70. 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

  Ships 6 files in scripts/ (PowerShell), which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • gh

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

• Network

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

Release Note Generation loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~5.9k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 133 tokens; SKILL.md has 374 words of instructions outside code blocks.

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

~133

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

~1.4k

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

~5.9k

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 smith-chem-wisc/MetaMorpheus at commit 8cb9a70, republished under its MIT licence (© smith-chem-wisc). 374 words, ~1,433 tokens.

name

release-note-generation

description

Toolkit for generating PowerToys release notes from GitHub milestone PRs or commit ranges. Use when asked to create release notes, summarize milestone PRs, generate changelog, prepare release documentation, request Copilot reviews for PRs, update README for a new release, manage PR milestones, or collect PRs between commits/tags. Supports PR collection by milestone or commit range, milestone assignment, grouping by label, summarization with external contributor attribution, and README version bumping.

license

Complete terms in LICENSE.txt

Generated Files/ReleaseNotes/
├── milestone_prs.json           # Raw PR data from GitHub
├── sorted_prs.csv               # Sorted PR list with Copilot summaries
├── prs_with_milestone.csv       # Milestone assignment tracking
├── grouped_csv/                 # PRs grouped by label (one CSV per label)
├── grouped_md/                  # Generated markdown summaries per label
└── v{VERSION}-release-notes.md  # Final consolidated release notes

┌────────────────────────────────┐
│ 1.0 Verify gh auth + MemberList │
└────────────────────────────────┘
              ↓
┌────────────────────────────────┐
│ 1.1 Collect PRs (stable range) │
└────────────────────────────────┘
              ↓
┌────────────────────────────────┐
│ 1.2 Assign Milestones           │
└────────────────────────────────┘
              ↓
┌────────────────────────────────┐
│ 2.1–2.4 Label PRs (auto+human)  │
└────────────────────────────────┘
              ↓
┌────────────────────────────────┐
│ 3.1 Request Reviews (Copilot)  │
└────────────────────────────────┘
              ↓
┌────────────────────────────────┐
│ 3.2 Refresh PR data             │
│ (CopilotSummary)                │
└────────────────────────────────┘
              ↓
┌────────────────────────────────┐
│ 3.3 Group by label              │
│ (grouped_csv)                   │
└────────────────────────────────┘
              ↓
┌────────────────────────────────┐
│ 4.1 Summarize (grouped_md)      │
└────────────────────────────────┘
              ↓
┌────────────────────────────────┐
│ 4.2 Final notes (v{VERSION}.md) │
└────────────────────────────────┘

© smith-chem-wisc, 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 11 other files (scripts, references) in skills/release-note-generation of smith-chem-wisc/MetaMorpheus.

• SKILL.md
• references/SampleOutput.md
• references/step1-collection.md
• references/step2-labeling.md
• references/step3-review-grouping.md
• references/step4-summarization.md
• scripts/apply-labels.ps1
• scripts/collect-or-apply-milestones.ps1
• scripts/diff_prs.ps1
• scripts/dump-prs-since-commit.ps1
• scripts/find-commit-by-title.ps1
• scripts/group-prs-by-label.ps1

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 8cb9a70