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changelog-automation

Automate changelog generation from commits, PRs, and releases following Keep a Changelog format. Use when setting up release workflows, generating release notes, or standardizing commit conventions.

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Quality

Content

72%

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

The skill body is actionable with concrete, copy-paste-ready examples and clean one-level-deep progressive disclosure. It is weakened by an oversized illustrative changelog example that adds padding and by the absence of an explicit sequenced workflow.

Suggestions

Trim the Keep a Changelog example to a minimal skeleton (headers and one or two sample entries) instead of full Highlights/dark-mode/dependency prose to improve token efficiency.

Add a short ordered workflow for generating a changelog (e.g., parse commits -> categorize by type -> map to Keep a Changelog sections -> write file) so the multi-step process is explicit rather than implicit.

Move the detailed dependency-update table and Known Issues sample content into references/details.md, keeping the body focused on the format structure and conventions.

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Conciseness

The body is mostly efficient, but the large Keep a Changelog example block (full Highlights, dark-mode prose, dependency tables) is illustrative padding that Claude could largely generate itself rather than lean instructional content.

2 / 3

Actionability

It provides copy-paste-ready format templates and concrete commit-message examples (feat(auth), fix(checkout), breaking-change footers), giving fully executable patterns rather than vague direction.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Content is organized as reference patterns and examples with a "When to Use" list, but there is no explicit multi-step sequence or checkpoints; guidance is present yet steps are implicit rather than sequenced.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The body points to "references/details.md" with a clear one-level-deep signal ("Read that file when the navigation tier above is insufficient"), and the referenced file exists, giving well-signaled navigation.

3 / 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 description that concisely states concrete capabilities and provides an explicit "Use when" trigger clause in third-person voice. It is specific, well-triggered, and clearly distinct from other skills.

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Specificity

"Automate changelog generation from commits, PRs, and releases following Keep a Changelog format" lists multiple concrete actions tied to specific sources, matching the anchor that requires several specific concrete actions.

3 / 3

Completeness

It explicitly answers both what (automate changelog generation from commits/PRs/releases, Keep a Changelog format) and when ("Use when setting up release workflows, generating release notes, or standardizing commit conventions"), with an explicit trigger clause.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

"release workflows", "generating release notes", and "standardizing commit conventions" are natural phrases a user would say when needing this skill, giving good coverage of common variations rather than jargon.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The Keep a Changelog / release-notes / commit-conventions niche is distinct with specific triggers, and the description uses third-person voice, making it unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.

3 / 3

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Validation

100%

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

Validation16 / 16 Passed

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No warnings or errors.

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