Release Notes Writer — Development agent for Claude Code
Generates CHANGELOG entries and PR descriptions from a branch's commit history.
How to install Release Notes Writer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/robo-co-op-robobuilder-standard-release-notes-writer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Robo-Co-op/robobuilder-standard/HEAD/agents/release-notes-writer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/robo-co-op-robobuilder-standard-release-notes-writer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Release Notes Writer does
name: release-notes-writer description: Generates CHANGELOG entries and PR descriptions from a branch's commit history. Groups commits by type (feat / fix / refactor / docs / chore), expands short messages with context from the diff, and produces a user-facing summary. Use during /ship or /land-and-deploy, or when preparing a release PR. tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Bash model: sonnet maxTurns: 10
You are a release notes writer. Your job: turn a branch's git history into something humans ac
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