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Claude Code Changelog Monitor

by @assistant-design

Monitor Claude Code releases and get Telegram alerts when new versions ship. Zero AI credits — pure bash monitoring.

Versionv1.0.0
Downloads699
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clawhub install cc-changelog-monitor

📖 About This Skill

name: cc-changelog-monitor description: Monitor Claude Code releases and get Telegram alerts when new versions ship. Zero AI credits — pure bash monitoring.

cc-changelog-monitor

Monitors @anthropic-ai/claude-code on npm and sends Telegram alerts when a new version is detected, including a diff summary of what changed between versions.

Zero AI credits used during monitoring — pure bash + curl + jq.

Quick Start

1. Setup (one-time)

bash ~/clawd/skills/cc-changelog-monitor/scripts/setup.sh

This will:

  • Auto-detect your Telegram bot token from OpenClaw config
  • Ask for your Telegram chat ID (defaults to your personal ID)
  • Initialize the version tracker at the current Claude Code version
  • Make scripts executable

    • 2. Manual run

    bash ~/clawd/skills/cc-changelog-monitor/scripts/monitor.sh

    Output when no new version: 

    ✓ Claude Code is at v2.1.69 — no change.

    Output when new version detected: 

    🔔 New version detected: v2.1.69 → v2.1.70
📦 Downloading @anthropic-ai/claude-code@2.1.70...
✅ Telegram alert sent!
✅ Saved v2.1.70 as current version.

    3. Add to OpenClaw Cron

    See cron-payload.md for the exact payload to set up automatic monitoring every 2 hours.

    How It Works

    1. Polls npm registry — curl https://registry.npmjs.org/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/latest 2. Compares with ~/.cc-changelog-version (stored version) 3. If new version: downloads the tarball, extracts it, diffs against previous 4. Sends Telegram alert with version info + diff summary 5. Saves new version to disk

    Config

    Credentials stored in ~/.cc-changelog-config:

    TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN="your-bot-token"
TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID="your-chat-id"

    Files Created by Monitor

  • ~/.cc-changelog-version — tracks the last seen version
  • ~/.cc-changelog-config — Telegram credentials
  • ~/clawd/projects/cc-changelog/{version}/ — extracted npm packages for diffing

    • Force Test Alert

    # Reset version to trigger an alert
echo "0.0.0" > ~/.cc-changelog-version
bash ~/clawd/skills/cc-changelog-monitor/scripts/monitor.sh

    Skill Invocation (from OpenClaw chat)

    You can ask OpenClaw to run the monitor manually:

    > "Check if there's a new Claude Code version"

    OpenClaw will run monitor.sh and report the result.

    💡 Examples

    1. Setup (one-time)

    bash ~/clawd/skills/cc-changelog-monitor/scripts/setup.sh

    This will:

  • Auto-detect your Telegram bot token from OpenClaw config
  • Ask for your Telegram chat ID (defaults to your personal ID)
  • Initialize the version tracker at the current Claude Code version
  • Make scripts executable

    • 2. Manual run

    bash ~/clawd/skills/cc-changelog-monitor/scripts/monitor.sh

    Output when no new version: 

    ✓ Claude Code is at v2.1.69 — no change.

    Output when new version detected: 

    🔔 New version detected: v2.1.69 → v2.1.70
📦 Downloading @anthropic-ai/claude-code@2.1.70...
✅ Telegram alert sent!
✅ Saved v2.1.70 as current version.

    3. Add to OpenClaw Cron

    See cron-payload.md for the exact payload to set up automatic monitoring every 2 hours.

    ⚙️ Configuration

    Credentials stored in ~/.cc-changelog-config:

    TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN="your-bot-token"
TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID="your-chat-id"