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changeset-writerlisted

Writes the release note for a change using the repository's own convention, and picks the version bump from what the change did to the public surface rather than from how big the diff looks. Detects Changesets, Conventional Commits or a hand-maintained changelog and follows whichever is already in use. Use when the user needs a changeset, release note, changelog entry or version bump decision for work they just finished.
Contexory/skills · ★ 0 · AI & Automation · score 73
Install: claude install-skill Contexory/skills
# Changeset writer Two things go wrong with release notes, and both are mechanical enough to fix. The note describes the diff instead of the consequence — "refactored the parser" tells a consumer nothing about whether to upgrade. And the bump is chosen by feel: a large diff gets a minor, a small one gets a patch, when the only question that matters is what happened to the surface other people depend on. ## Procedure ### 1. Read the change's effect on the public surface `<skill-dir>` is the directory this SKILL.md was loaded from — the skill installs outside your project, so its script is named by full path, never relatively. ``` python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/change_surface.py # working tree vs merge-base with main python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/change_surface.py origin/main # explicit base ``` The script reports which packages the diff touches, whether each is published or private, the exported symbols **added, removed and signature-changed** per package, and the repository's existing release convention with an example of a recent entry. ### 2. Pick the bump from the surface, not the diff size - **major** — an export was removed, renamed, or had its signature narrowed; a default changed in a way existing callers would notice; a runtime floor was raised - **minor** — an export was added, and nothing existing changed - **patch** — no change to the public surface at all A private package usually needs no changeset. Say so rather than writing an empty one. **A