diff --git a/.claude/skills/release-notes/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/release-notes/SKILL.md
index 25dd48869..aa5754fef 100644
--- a/.claude/skills/release-notes/SKILL.md
+++ b/.claude/skills/release-notes/SKILL.md
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 ---
 name: release-notes
-description: Generate GitHub release notes from git tags. Usage - /release-notes <from_tag> <to_tag>. Runs the changelog script, then rewrites the output into polished GitHub release notes.
-disable-model-invocation: true
-argument-hint: <from_tag> <to_tag>
+description: Generate GitHub release notes from git refs (tags, commits, or HEAD). Usage - /release-notes <from> <to>. Runs the changelog script, then rewrites the output into polished GitHub release notes.
+argument-hint: <from_ref> [to_ref]
 user-invocable: true
 allowed-tools: Bash(git log *), Bash(git tag *), Bash(git describe *), Bash(bash scripts/changelog.sh *), Bash(gh release *), Read, Agent
 ---
@@ -18,12 +17,14 @@ Generate polished GitHub release notes for the code-android-app repository.
 
 ## Input
 
-Parse the two tags from `$ARGUMENTS`, e.g.:
+Parse the two refs from `$ARGUMENTS`. Each ref can be a tag, a commit SHA, a commit number (Nth commit in repo history), or `HEAD`:
 - `/release-notes fcash/2026.4.10 fcash/2026.4.11`
 - `/release-notes fcash/2026.4.9 HEAD`
+- `/release-notes a3f2417 HEAD`
+- `/release-notes 3599 HEAD` (from the 3599th commit to HEAD)
 
-If only one tag is provided, use it as `<from>` and default `<to>` to `HEAD`.
-If no tags are provided, use the pre-flight latest tag as `<from>` and `HEAD` as `<to>`.
+If only one ref is provided, use it as `<from>` and default `<to>` to `HEAD`.
+If no refs are provided, use the pre-flight latest tag as `<from>` and `HEAD` as `<to>`.
 
 ## Steps
 
@@ -42,14 +43,15 @@ Use the Agent tool with `model: "haiku"`. Pass the raw changelog output with thi
 > Given these git commits (conventional commit format), write user-facing release notes.
 >
 > Rules:
-> - Group under: **Features**, **Bug Fixes**, **Improvements** (omit empty sections)
+> - Group under: **Features**, **Bug Fixes**, **Improvements**, **Dependencies** (omit empty sections)
 > - Write for end users — no jargon, file names, or internals
 > - One short sentence per item
 > - Group related commits into a single bullet when they address the same area
 > - Use scope as context but write in plain language; keep scope in **bold** prefix when it adds clarity
-> - Drop internal-only changes (pure refactors, CI tweaks, build config) unless user-facing
+> - ALWAYS include bug fixes — only drop pure refactors, CI pipeline changes, and release/manifest bookkeeping
 > - Feature bullets start with a lowercase verb (e.g., "add", "support", "enable")
 > - Bug fix bullets start with "Fixed" (capitalized)
+> - **Dependencies** section: list each dependency bump as `Name X.Y.Z → A.B.C` (use the human-readable library name, not the Maven coordinate). Include targetSdkVersion and Gradle wrapper bumps in this section too.
 > - Use 2-space indent before each bullet (`  - `)
 > - Do NOT include commit hashes
 > - If no user-facing changes, output: Bug fixes and performance improvements.
diff --git a/scripts/changelog.sh b/scripts/changelog.sh
index 1a6ef0f2a..e71b43776 100755
--- a/scripts/changelog.sh
+++ b/scripts/changelog.sh
@@ -10,8 +10,27 @@
 
 set -euo pipefail
 
-FROM="${1:?Usage: changelog.sh <from> <to>}"
-TO="${2:-HEAD}"
+# Resolve a ref that might be a commit number (e.g. 3599 = the 3599th commit).
+# Pure numbers with fewer than 7 digits are always treated as commit ordinals
+# (7 is the minimum git short-SHA length, so this avoids ambiguity).
+# Everything else (tags, SHAs, HEAD) passes through as-is.
+resolve_ref() {
+  local ref="$1"
+  if [[ "$ref" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] && [ "${#ref}" -lt 7 ]; then
+    local sha
+    sha=$(git rev-list --reverse HEAD | sed -n "${ref}p")
+    if [ -z "$sha" ]; then
+      echo "Error: commit #$ref not found (repo has $(git rev-list --count HEAD) commits)" >&2
+      exit 1
+    fi
+    echo "$sha"
+  else
+    echo "$ref"
+  fi
+}
+
+FROM=$(resolve_ref "${1:?Usage: changelog.sh <from|commit#> [to|commit#]}")
+TO=$(resolve_ref "${2:-HEAD}")
 
 # Collect commits (skip merges)
 COMMITS=$(git log --no-merges --format="%H %s" "$FROM".."$TO")