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Best changelog and release notes skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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/ | 50k | 2 repos | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 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/ | 12k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 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/ | 38k | — | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 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/ | 57k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 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/ | 69k | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | today |
| 6 | 6.Release Cut a FastMCP release end to end. An agent skill from PrefectHQ/fastmcp. | PrefectHQ/ | 28k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 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/ | 57k | — | ~941 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 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/ | 5.1k | 1 repo | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 4 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/ | 69k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | today |
| 10 | Generate comprehensive release notes for Bit from git commits and pull requests. | teambit/ | 18k | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 11 | Maintains the IdeaVim changelog (CHANGES.md). An agent skill from JetBrains/ideavim. | JetBrains/ | 10k | 1 repo | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 12 | 12.Release Bump 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/ | 57k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 13 | Cut a Devbox CLI release — recommend the version bump, write the release notes, and drive the draft or publish flow. | jetify-com/ | 12k | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 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/ | 102k | 2 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 4 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/ | 37k | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 16 | 16.Cut Release 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/ | 2.7k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 17 | Universal release workflow. An agent skill from nexmoe/eve. | nexmoe/ | 421 | 3 repos | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 6 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/ | 18k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 19 | Create or edit Yaak changelogs. An agent skill from mountain-loop/yaak. | mountain-loop/ | 19k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 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/ | 22k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | BSD-2-Clause | yesterday |
| 21 | Maintainer workflow for preparing, publishing, verifying and curating Hunk releases, with confirmation gates before tags, publishes and public edits. | modem-dev/ | 9.5k | — | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 22 | Publish and verify a new release of the App-Store-Connect-CLI repository. | rorkai/ | 7.7k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 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/ | 43k | — | ~289 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 24 | 24.Changelog 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/ | 24k | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 25 | 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/ | 70k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 26 | Create a changeset for the Astro monorepo. An agent skill from withastro/astro. | withastro/ | 63k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 27 | 27.Commitizen 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/ | 3.5k | — | ~839 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 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/ | 1.1k | 2 repos | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| 29 | NG-ZORRO/ng-zorro-antd repository release workflow. An agent skill from NG-ZORRO/ng-zorro-antd. | NG-ZORRO/ | 9.2k | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 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/ | 18k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 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/ | 12k | — | ~497 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 23 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/ | 33k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 28 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/ | 22k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 34 | 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/ | 6.4k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 4 days ago |
| 35 | Generate a GitHub release note draft for this Obsidian plugin repository. | RAIT-09/ | 2.4k | — | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 5 days ago |
| 36 | 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/ | 7.7k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 37 | 37.Sepia Make AI-generated writing read as human-written, in fiction and in professional prose. | Nanako0129/ | 3k | — | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 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/ | 9.2k | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 39 | 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/ | 3.5k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 3 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/ | 6.4k | — | ~431 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 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/ | 28k | 1 repo | ~830 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 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/ | 71k | — | ~570 | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | today |
| 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/ | 2.8k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 19 days ago |
| 44 | 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/ | 4k | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 45 | Walks a maintainer through cutting a Worktrunk release: sync the release branch, pass two test gates, review the changes, then publish. | max-sixty/ | 8.9k | — | ~6.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 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/ | 18k | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 47 | Authoring conventions, design principles, and file formats for the d2mcpp (D2X) Modern C++ tutorial project. | mcpp-community/ | 1.8k | — | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 mo ago |
| 48 | Generate Yaak release notes from git history and PR metadata, including feedback links and full changelog compare links. | mountain-loop/ | 19k | — | ~548 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
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.
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