Changelog Automation

A practical automation toolkit that generates standardized changelogs from your commit history using Keep a Changelog format and Conventional Commits. You get configurations for standard-version, semantic-release, git-cliff, and GitHub Actions workflows that automatically parse commit messages, categorize changes, bump semantic versions, and publish release notes. The skill includes commit linting setup with husky, release branch strategies, and templates for both manual and fully automated releases. Most developers will want this for any project where they're tired of manually writing release notes or want to enforce consistent commit messaging across their team.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add wshobson/agents --skill changelog-automation --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Changelog Automation

Patterns and tools for automating changelog generation, release notes, and version management following industry standards.

When to Use This Skill

Setting up automated changelog generation
Implementing Conventional Commits
Creating release note workflows
Standardizing commit message formats
Generating GitHub/GitLab release notes
Managing semantic versioning

Core Concepts

1. Keep a Changelog Format

# Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).

## Detailed patterns and worked examples

Detailed pattern documentation lives in `references/details.md`. Read that file when the navigation tier above is insufficient.

## Summary

This release introduces dark mode support and improves checkout performance
by 40%. It also includes important security updates.

## Highlights

### 🌙 Dark Mode

Users can now switch to dark mode from settings. The preference is
automatically saved and synced across devices.

### ⚡ Performance

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