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release-notes-generator

Generate release notes in 3 formats (CHANGELOG.md, PR body, Slack announcement) from git commits. Automatically categorizes changes and converts technical language to user-friendly messaging. Use for releases, changelogs, version notes, what's new summaries, or ship announcements.

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Quality

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

65%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is highly actionable with real commands and templates, but it is verbose and undermines its own progressive-disclosure design by duplicating reference-file content inline while also carrying two misaligned workflow sequences. Tightening the duplication and consolidating the workflow would raise conciseness and clarity.

Suggestions

Remove the inline Tech-to-Product and Commit Categories tables from SKILL.md and rely on references/tech-to-product-mappings.md and references/commit-categories.md, keeping only a one-line pointer to each — this removes duplication and tightens the body.

Consolidate the two overlapping "Workflow" and "Workflow Integration" sections into a single sequenced list that marks migration detection and the --preview flag as explicit validation gates.

Drop the redundant "Example" console block (it repeats the migration alert already shown in Console Output Format) and trim the generic Tips to only non-obvious items.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is mostly efficient and operational but is padded: the Tech-to-Product and Commit-Categories tables and the CHANGELOG/Slack templates are duplicated inline despite existing as bundle files, the "Example" repeats the migration alert box, and the Tips section is generic. It is not a lean every-token-earns-its-place document, so it sits at the mostly-efficient-could-be-tightened anchor rather than 3.

2 / 3

Actionability

Provides fully executable commands (e.g. `git tag --sort=-v:refname | head -n 1`, `gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{number}`, `git diff <last-tag>..HEAD --name-only -- migrations/`), concrete output templates, and a worked example — copy-paste ready with normal placeholder substitution.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Steps are sequenced and a migration-detection checkpoint exists, but two overlapping non-aligned sequences ("Workflow" 6 steps vs "Workflow Integration" 7 steps) create mild ambiguity and there is no error-recovery feedback loop, fitting the steps-present-but-checkpoints-gaps anchor.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

Reference files exist and are clearly listed in a "Reference Files" section at one level deep, but content that should live in those files (templates, transformation and category tables) is duplicated inline, so the split is undermined rather than appropriately structured.

2 / 3

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Description

100%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong, third-person description that states concrete capabilities, gives an explicit "Use for" trigger with natural terms, and occupies a distinct niche. It cleanly answers both what the skill does and when to invoke it.

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Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions in third person — "Generate release notes in 3 formats (CHANGELOG.md, PR body, Slack announcement)", "categorizes changes", "converts technical language to user-friendly messaging" — matching the multiple-specific-actions anchor.

3 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ("Generate release notes in 3 formats ... from git commits") and when ("Use for releases, changelogs, version notes ..."), with an explicit trigger clause.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

The "Use for releases, changelogs, version notes, what's new summaries, or ship announcements" clause covers natural terms a user would actually say, with good variation coverage.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The release-notes-from-git-commits across three named formats is a clear niche with distinct triggers unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.

3 / 3

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12

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12

Passed

Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository
FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-ultimate-guide
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