Changelog Generator Skill

Generate release notes from conventional commits by parsing git history to extract type, scope, subject, and breaking changes, then automatically grouping them into categorized changelog sections. The skill outputs structured release notes ready for publication.

Group git commits into categories for a changelog by mapping conventional commit types to predefined sections such as Features, Bug Fixes, Breaking Changes, Performance, and Documentation. This automated category mapping ensures structured and readable release notes.

You can output your changelog as JSON, plain text, or markdown. This multi-format output capability supports various release artifacts and integration pipelines, allowing you to select the format that best fits your downstream release process.

This changelog generator supports multi-repo histories. It applies to release pipelines across multiple repositories, parsing conventional commits from combined git histories to produce a unified and categorized changelog for your release.

Conventional commit parsing handles breaking change detection by extracting breaking change indicators from commit messages. It enforces this detection to ensure breaking changes are explicitly highlighted in the changelog and reflected in semantic versioning suggestions.

You can get semantic versioning suggestions from your git history by configuring a current version. The generator analyzes parsed conventional commits and detected breaking changes to recommend the next appropriate semantic version for your release.