Release Notes Generator
Skill Verified ActiveGenerate customer-facing release notes from git logs, changelogs, or manual input. Narrative style focused on customer benefit, not feature names. Supports multiple output formats: blog post, email snippet, in-app notification, changelog entry. Use when someone says "release notes", "changelog", "what shipped", "customer update", "release communication", "what's new", "product update email", "in-app notification", "ship log", or "announce this release".
To efficiently transform technical release details into clear, benefit-driven customer communications, saving product teams time and improving user understanding.
Features
- Generate release notes from git logs, changelogs, or manual input
- Focus on customer benefit, not technical feature names
- Supports multiple output formats (blog post, email, in-app notification, changelog)
- Provides detailed process guidance and quality checklists
- Handles compliance and regulatory communication patterns
Use Cases
- Writing customer-facing release notes for a new product version
- Drafting a "what's new" email to customers
- Creating in-app notification copy for new features
- Translating technical Jira tickets into user-friendly changelog entries
Non-Goals
- Generating internal technical documentation
- Writing marketing copy unrelated to product releases
- Directly publishing release notes to external platforms
- Translating technical changes into code snippets
Workflow
- Gather input (changes, audience, format)
- Categorize changes (new feature, improvement, fix, compliance, etc.)
- Write release notes following defined patterns for chosen formats
- Review against quality checklist
- Suggest distribution plan
Practices
- Customer Communication
- Product Documentation
- Release Management
Prerequisites
- Input data (git log, changelog, or manual description)
- Understanding of the target audience and product context (via domain-context.md)
Practical Utility
- info:Usage examplesWhile the skill provides detailed templates for various outputs, explicit ready-to-run examples with inputs and outputs are not present.
Installation
First, add the marketplace
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