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Best changelog and release notes skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.

Skills that turn commits and merged pull requests into changelogs and release notes for users.
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Changelog and release notes skills, ranked

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Changelog and release notes skills, ranked
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Write or rewrite technical text with the rules of ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English so it is clear, unambiguous, and free of AI slop.

moeru-ai/airi50k2 repos~4.6kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
2

Drafts English release notes for a StarRocks patch release from the PRs merged into its release branch, then opens a documentation PR and hands translation to /translate.

StarRocks/starrocks12k—~1.9kAutomated safety check: NotesApache-2.0today
3

A skill your agent uses when cutting, preparing, or debugging a Trilium release — bumping the monorepo version, tagging, or diagnosing a failed "Release" workflow run.

TriliumNext/Trilium38k—~3.2kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0today
4

Polishes pending React Router change files before the versioning scripts run, and decides whether a long-form What's Changed section is warranted.

remix-run/react-router57k—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
5

Runbook for assessing and executing a Mole CLI release: distribution channels, pre-flight checks, capital-V tags, build artifacts and the handoff to curated release notes.

tw93/Mole69k—~2.5kAutomated safety check: PassGPL-3.0today
6

Cut a FastMCP release end to end. An agent skill from PrefectHQ/fastmcp.

PrefectHQ/fastmcp28k—~2.9kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
7

Writes or refreshes the Unreleased section of CHANGELOG.md as a themed narrative built from the commits, PRs and diff since the last version tag.

jamiepine/voicebox57k—~941Automated safety check: PassMITtoday
8

Walks through deprecating an R function or argument in a package: lifecycle warning, silenced tests, a new snapshot test, documentation badge and NEWS entry.

tidyverse/dplyr5.1k1 repo~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown4 mo ago
9

Publishes curated, bilingual release notes for an existing Mole version tag with gh release edit, including contributor thanks and reactions, after the release workflow finishes.

tw93/Mole69k—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassGPL-3.0today
10

Generate comprehensive release notes for Bit from git commits and pull requests.

teambit/bit18k—~2.2kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
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11.ChangelogOfficial

Maintains the IdeaVim changelog (CHANGES.md). An agent skill from JetBrains/ideavim.

JetBrains/ideavim10k1 repo~2.7kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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Ends a release cycle by moving the Unreleased changelog notes under a dated version heading, bumping version files with bumpversion and tagging the commit.

jamiepine/voicebox57k—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
13

Cut a Devbox CLI release — recommend the version bump, write the release notes, and drive the draft or publish flow.

jetify-com/devbox12k—~2.5kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
14

Sets git habits for every change: short-lived branches, atomic commits with descriptive messages, clean pull requests, plus versioning, tagging and changelogs for releases.

addyosmani/agent-skills102k2 repos~3.5kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT4 days ago
15

Curate a pending release page - merging entries that describe one change, dropping notes for defects that never shipped, ordering by importance, and checking the version the intents ask for.

pnpm/pnpm37k—~2.8kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
16

Cut a new versioned release of bpftop — pick the version, open a version-bump PR, sign-tag the merge commit on main, and draft GitHub release notes in the project's established format.

jfernandez/bpftop2.7k—~2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.01 mo ago
17

Universal release workflow. An agent skill from nexmoe/eve.

nexmoe/eve4213 repos~3.3kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence6 mo ago
18

Takes a change through a verdaccio pull request: branch, local checks, changeset, title and body, labels, CI and review rounds, and ports to other release lines.

verdaccio/verdaccio18k—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
19

Create or edit Yaak changelogs. An agent skill from mountain-loop/yaak.

mountain-loop/yaak19k—~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
20

Prepares a go-redis release locally: picks the next semver, gathers merged PRs, writes the RELEASE-NOTES entry and bumps versions, without publishing.

redis/go-redis22k—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassBSD-2-Clauseyesterday
21

Maintainer workflow for preparing, publishing, verifying and curating Hunk releases, with confirmation gates before tags, publishes and public edits.

modem-dev/hunk9.5k—~3.8kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
22

Publish and verify a new release of the App-Store-Connect-CLI repository.

rorkai/App-Store-Connect-CLI7.7k—~2.4kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
23

Audit herdr release readiness by comparing commits since the base release against next-release changelog and docs. Use when asked to run or apply…

herdrdev/herdr43k—~289Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
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依据 git 提交、diff、现有 CHANGELOG 与 tag,生成符合 MAA 规范、可直接写入 CHANGELOG.md 的最终 Markdown。用户提到发版、整理/生成 changelog、写更新日志、发布正式版或 beta 时均应使用本 skill,即使用户没有明确说出 "changelog" 一词。

MaaAssistantArknights/MaaAssistantArknights24k—~2.8kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0today
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Guides publishing a one-time What's new dialog in the Cline desktop app: deciding if one is due, picking highlights from the changelog and editing one content file.

cline/cline70k—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
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26.ChangesetOfficial

Create a changeset for the Astro monorepo. An agent skill from withastro/astro.

withastro/astro63k—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
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A skill your agent uses for tasks involving Conventional Commits, commit message validation, Commitizen configuration, semantic version bumps, changelog generation, or CI/release automation with the…

commitizen-tools/commitizen3.5k—~839Automated safety check: PassMITtoday
28

Cut an OpenSEO release — bump the version, draft user-facing release notes from commits since the last tag, run a review + subagent-verification pass, and open a "release: vX.X.X" PR.

VladSez/easy-invoice-pdf1.1k2 repos~1.8kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.04 days ago
29

NG-ZORRO/ng-zorro-antd repository release workflow. An agent skill from NG-ZORRO/ng-zorro-antd.

NG-ZORRO/ng-zorro-antd9.2k—~3.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
30

Opens the pybind11 release-preparation pull request: picking the release base, bumping the version in common.h and integrating the changelog, following docs/release.rst.

pybind/pybind1118k—~1.7kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
31

Prepares an npm release of ant-design-mobile up to the version commit, then tags and publishes the GitHub Release after you run the publish command yourself.

ant-design/ant-design-mobile12k—~497Automated safety check: PassMIT23 days ago
32

Automates an AionUi release: checks the latest AionCore release and its artifacts, updates package.json, writes the changelog, opens a PR and tags the release.

iOfficeAI/AionUi33k—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.028 days ago
33

Validates .NET release data with the release-notes CLI: download URL liveness, SHA512 hashes, CDN latest.version files and aka.ms redirects.

dotnet/core22k—~1.8kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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Runs the DeepChat repository's release flow: prepares bilingual release notes and a version bump on dev, cuts or updates a release branch, then fast-forwards main and tags the version.

ThinkInAIXYZ/deepchat6.4k—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.04 days ago
35

Generate a GitHub release note draft for this Obsidian plugin repository.

RAIT-09/obsidian-agent-client2.4k—~4.2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.05 days ago
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Write Git commit messages and pull request titles/descriptions using the Chris Beams / Tim Pope conventions (subject/body split, ~50-char subject, imperative mood, why-not-how body) plus ASD-STE100…

superplanehq/superplane7.7k—~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
37

Make AI-generated writing read as human-written, in fiction and in professional prose.

Nanako0129/sepia3k—~3.6kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
38

Drafts Plannotator release notes with full contributor credit, bumps versions in dependency order, builds, and starts the tag-driven release pipeline, in four reviewed phases.

backnotprop/plannotator9.2k—~4.6kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0yesterday
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39.Add AnalyzerOfficial

A skill your agent uses when adding a new RCS diagnostic in roslynator (RCS0 formatting, RCS1 general, RCS9 code-analysis), wiring roslynator EditorConfig options, or when docs say CHANGELOG.md…

dotnet/roslynator3.5k—~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown3 days ago
40

A skill your agent uses when cutting or preparing a new Aptos CLI release, bumping the aptos crate version, or editing crates/aptos/CHANGELOG.md for a release

aptos-labs/aptos-core6.4k—~431Automated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
41

Runs the cmux release process: gathers per-PR changelog lines since the last tag, bumps the version, guards against a bad tag, then tags and pushes the macOS DMG release.

manaflow-ai/cmux28k1 repo~830Automated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
42

Reviews an Ansible pull request by number, following the steps in the project's CLAUDE.md, with early checks for changelog fragments and tests.

ansible/ansible71k—~570Automated safety check: PassGPL-3.0today
43

Runs a coordinated EthereumJS npm release round in six human-gated phases — intent and readiness, CHANGELOG, version bump, publish (human executes), post-publish verification, and announcements.

ethereumjs/ethereumjs-monorepo2.8k—~2kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence19 days ago
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44.Cut ReleaseOfficial

A skill your agent uses to cut an APM release from the current worktree: assess whether the cycle since the last tag warrants a patch or minor bump (semver discipline against the…

microsoft/apm4k—~2.5kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
45

Walks a maintainer through cutting a Worktrunk release: sync the release branch, pass two test gates, review the changes, then publish.

max-sixty/worktrunk8.9k—~6.9kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
46

Walks a maintainer through publishing a pybind11 release after the preparation PR merges, with preflight checks, confirmations before each push and a GitHub release.

pybind/pybind1118k—~2.5kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
47

Authoring conventions, design principles, and file formats for the d2mcpp (D2X) Modern C++ tutorial project.

mcpp-community/d2mcpp1.8k—~2.7kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown2 mo ago
48

Generate Yaak release notes from git history and PR metadata, including feedback links and full changelog compare links.

mountain-loop/yaak19k—~548Automated safety check: PassMITtoday

Questions, answered from the data.

What is the best changelog and release notes skill?

Simple English from moeru-ai/airi ranks first of the 1,147 changelog and release notes skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 50k GitHub stars, 2 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 4.6k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come StarRocks Release Notes and Cutting A Release.

Which changelog and release notes skills are official?

66 of the 1,147 changelog and release notes skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Changelog, Go-Redis Release Preparation, Changeset, .NET Release Verification, Add Analyzer and 61 more.

How are these skills ranked?

By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.