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changelog-generator

Automatically creates user-facing changelogs from git commits by analyzing commit history, categorizing changes, and transforming technical commits into clear, customer-friendly release notes. Turns hours of manual changelog writing into minutes of automated generation.

79

1.03x
Quality

70%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

99%

1.03x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No findings from the security scan

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SKILL.md
Quality
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Security

Quality

Content

57%

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

The body is well-structured and free of concept-explaining padding, but it reads as a use-case catalog with sample output rather than actionable, executable guidance, leaving actionability and workflow clarity at 2.

Suggestions

Replace the descriptive step list with a concrete, executable procedure (e.g., exact git log commands to run and how to parse/format the output).

Trim the 'When to Use' and 'Related Use Cases' bullet lists to the few most common triggers to reduce token weight.

Add a validation checkpoint (e.g., review the draft against CHANGELOG_STYLE.md and confirm no internal/noise commits leaked in) before publishing.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

Mostly efficient with clear sections, but the seven 'When to Use' bullets, four 'Related Use Cases', and the long illustrative output example add padding that could be tightened; it does not explain concepts Claude already knows, so it stays above level 1.

2 / 3

Actionability

The body gives example user utterances and a sample output but no concrete instructions, commands, or procedure for how Claude should actually generate the changelog — guidance that describes rather than instructs.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

'What This Skill Does' lists six sequenced steps, but they are descriptive labels with no executable commands or validation/checkpoint steps, matching the level-2 anchor of a present but checkpoint-free sequence.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

Content is organized into clearly labeled sections (When to Use, What it Does, How to Use, Example, Tips) with no nested or multi-level references and no need for external files, matching the well-organized level-3 anchor.

3 / 3

Total

9

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12

Passed

Description

82%

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

The description is specific and distinctive with good natural trigger terms, but it omits any explicit 'when to use' guidance, which caps completeness at 2.

Suggestions

Add an explicit trigger clause such as 'Use when the user asks for release notes, changelogs, or wants to summarize git commits for customers.'

Include common phrasing variations like 'release notes', 'what's new', or 'version updates' to broaden trigger coverage.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — 'analyzing commit history, categorizing changes, and transforming technical commits into clear, customer-friendly release notes' — matching the multi-action anchor rather than the domain-only level 2.

3 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers 'what' (creates changelogs from commits) but never states 'when' to use it — there is no 'Use when...' clause, which caps completeness at 2 per the guidelines.

2 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Uses natural terms users would actually say — 'git commits', 'changelogs', 'release notes' — giving good coverage rather than the partial level-2 set.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Carves a clear niche (git-commit-to-changelog transformation) with distinct triggers unlikely to collide with other skills, matching the level-3 anchor.

3 / 3

Total

11

/

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

CriteriaDescriptionResult

frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

Warning

Total

15

/

16

Passed

Repository
davepoon/buildwithclaude
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