What problem does it solve?
This Skill eliminates the manual effort of auditing commits and file changes by automatically analyzing branch differences and producing a focused, architectural changelog entry that helps developers catch up quickly.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Automated Comparison: Fetches from origin and compares HEAD against a target branch or time range to produce a clear summary of commits and file changes.
- Contextual Analysis: Highlights new files, modified modules, and areas of architectural significance (models, services, tasks, APIs, migrations).
- Changelog Generation: Produces a dated, structured markdown changelog entry in .notes/changelog with summaries, new capabilities, modified files, and dependency changes.
- Use Case: Use after merging a feature branch or during handoffs to create a single-scannable changelog for release notes or onboarding.
Quick Start
Run /whats-new to compare the current branch to origin/master and generate a concise changelog entry summarizing the important changes.