Changelog Generator — Documentation skill for Claude Code
Build a user-facing changelog from a repo's entire git history by reading actual diffs, not commit messages.
How to install Changelog Generator
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/chrismccoy-forge-changelog-generator/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/chrismccoy-forge-changelog-generator && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrismccoy/forge/HEAD/commands/changelog-generator.md -o ~/.claude/skills/chrismccoy-forge-changelog-generator/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Changelog Generator does
description: Build a user-facing changelog from a repo's entire git history by reading actual diffs, not commit messages argument-hint: [optional path to a git repository] allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Write, Grep, Glob, Task disable-model-invocation: true
**Load first.** Read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/changelog-generator/SKILL.md` in full before anything else - intake, tool calls, or output. That file is the authoritative procedure for this command; every mention of "the `changelog
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