# CHANGELOG.md (Keep a Changelog)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/changelog-md/  
**Website:** https://keepachangelog.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

CHANGELOG.md is a community convention for a human-readable, Markdown- formatted file at the root of a project that records notable changes between versions. The leading specification is "Keep a Changelog" by Olivier Lacan, which defines a stable, opinionated set of section headings (Added, Changed, Deprecated, Removed, Fixed, Security) and recommends pairing with Semantic Versioning (SemVer). The format is widely adopted across open source and enterprise projects as the de facto way to document API and software releases in a way that is readable by humans and parseable by tooling.

## Kin Score — 11.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 11.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 15.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 10.5 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Changelog Md Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC

## Use cases (9)

- **Open Source Project Release Notes**
- **API Change Documentation**
- **SDK Release Notes**
- **Package Manager Metadata**
- **Library Deprecation Tracking**
- **Security Disclosure**
- **Automated Release Tooling**
- **Monorepo Component Changelogs**
- **Regulatory / Compliance Change Records**

## Tags

Changelog, Change Tracking, Documentation, Markdown, Open-Source, Release Management, Semantic Versioning, Software Releases, Versioning

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/changelog-md/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.