Changelog Skill

When generating a changelog, follow this structured process. Good release notes tell users and developers what changed, why it matters, and what they need to do about it.

1. Discovery — Understand the Release Context

Detect Versioning Strategy

# Check for existing changelog
cat CHANGELOG.md CHANGELOG CHANGES.md HISTORY.md RELEASE_NOTES.md 2>/dev/null | head -30

# Check package version
cat package.json 2>/dev/null | grep '"version"'
cat pyproject.toml 2>/dev/null | grep 'version'
cat Cargo.toml 2>/dev/null | grep '^version'
cat pom.xml 2>/dev/null | grep -m1 '<version>'
cat build.gradle 2>/dev/null | grep 'version'
cat mix.exs 2>/dev/null | grep '@version'
cat setup.py 2>/dev/null | grep 'version'