Changelog Generator

Tier: POWERFUL Category: Engineering / Release Management Maintainer: Claude Skills Team

Overview

Generate consistent, auditable changelogs and release notes from Conventional Commits. Parses commit messages, detects semantic version bumps (major/minor/patch), renders Keep a Changelog sections, supports monorepo scoped changelogs, integrates with CI for automated release notes, and enforces commit format with linting. Separates commit parsing, bump logic, and rendering so teams can automate releases without losing editorial control.

Keywords

changelog, release notes, conventional commits, semantic versioning, semver, Keep a Changelog, commit linting, release automation, monorepo changelog

Core Capabilities

1. Commit Parsing

• Parse Conventional Commit messages into structured data
• Extract type, scope, description, body, and footer
• Detect breaking changes from ! suffix and BREAKING CHANGE: footer