Draft Release Notes

Draft Release Notes is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by cobusgreyling in loop-engineering.

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Install Draft Release Notes

Copy Draft Release Notes into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering/tree/main/starters/changelog-drafter/.grok/skills/draft-release-notes ~/.claude/skills/draft-release-notes

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: starters/changelog-drafter/.grok/skills/draft-release-notes/SKILL.md in cobusgreyling/loop-engineering
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/draft-release-notes
Collection: One of 23 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Draft Release Notes does

Draft Release Notes turns a structured list of changes from changelog-scan into a clean, categorized, user-facing release notes draft. Use it after a changelog scan to prepare a release notes file for human review without publishing.

Draft Release Notes is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Draft Release Notes comes from a repository tagged agentic-ai, ai-agents, ai-coding, anthropic and automation.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Draft Release Notes Skill

Inputs

Structured output from changelog-scan (the list of items + summary)
Previous release version (from state)
Target next version (or "unreleased" / "next")
Optional: short "Release voice" guidance from AGENTS.md or a project skill (tone, what to highlight, what to omit)

Output

Write a ready-to-review draft to RELEASE_NOTES_DRAFT.md (or print it clearly so the loop can save it).

Use this structure (adapt section names to what actually exists; omit empty sections):

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Draft Release Notes

What else does cobusgreyling publish alongside Draft Release Notes?
Draft Release Notes is one of 23 skills that DirSkills catalogs from cobusgreyling/loop-engineering, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Budget Negotiator, CI Triage and CI Triage. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Draft Release Notes does, and is maintained by cobusgreyling in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the cobusgreyling/loop-engineering page.
How does Draft Release Notes compare to other Writing skills?
Draft Release Notes ranks #94 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Draft Release Notes against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.