What problem does it solve?
This Skill automates the generation of changelogs, release notes, and migration guides directly from your git history, saving significant time and ensuring consistency.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Automated Changelog Generation: Creates Keep a Changelog formatted output from conventional commits.
- Release Notes Drafting: Generates user-facing release notes summarizing key changes.
- Breaking Change Detection: Identifies and summarizes backward-incompatible changes.
- Migration Guide Creation: Assists in generating step-by-step instructions for users to migrate between versions.
- Version Bump Recommendation: Suggests semantic version bumps (major, minor, patch) based on commit analysis.
- Use Case: After merging a new feature and several bug fixes, use this Skill to generate the changelog entry for the upcoming release, ensuring all changes are documented accurately.
Quick Start
Use the changelog writer skill to generate the changelog for the latest release.