diff --git a/scripts/changelog-section.sh b/scripts/changelog-section.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..37360dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/changelog-section.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Vendored from heavy-duty/ceremony 0.6.3:
+#   lib/changelog.sh (changelog_section + changelog_section_problem)
+#   bin/changelog-section
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+changelog_section() {
+  awk -v ver="$2" '
+    /^## / { if (found) exit; found = ($2 == ver); next }
+    found && !body && /^[[:space:]]*$/ { next }
+    found { body = 1; print }
+  ' "$1"
+}
+
+changelog_section_problem() {
+  local file="$1" ver="$2" notes problem
+
+  if ! awk -v ver="$ver" '/^## / && $2 == ver { found = 1; exit } END { exit !found }' "$file"; then
+    printf "no section for '%s'\n" "$ver"
+    return 1
+  fi
+
+  [ "$ver" = "Unreleased" ] && return 0
+
+  notes="$(changelog_section "$file" "$ver")"
+  if ! printf '%s\n' "$notes" | awk '/^[[:space:]]*[-*][[:space:]]/ { found = 1; exit } END { exit !found }'; then
+    printf "section '%s' has no entries — a heading is not an entry\n" "$ver"
+    return 1
+  fi
+
+  problem="$(
+    printf '%s\n' "$notes" | awk '
+      /^### / {
+        if (heading != "" && !entry) {
+          reported = 1
+          print heading
+          exit
+        }
+        heading = $0
+        entry = 0
+        next
+      }
+      heading != "" && /^[[:space:]]*[-*][[:space:]]/ { entry = 1 }
+      END {
+        if (!reported && heading != "" && !entry) print heading
+      }
+    '
+  )"
+  if [ -n "$problem" ]; then
+    printf "section '%s' has an empty heading: '%s'\n" "$ver" "$problem"
+    return 1
+  fi
+}
+
+ver="${1:-}"
+changelog="${2:-CHANGELOG.md}"
+if [ -z "$ver" ]; then
+  echo "usage: changelog-section.sh <version> [<changelog>]" >&2
+  exit 2
+fi
+[ -f "$changelog" ] || {
+  echo "changelog-section: no such file: $changelog" >&2
+  exit 1
+}
+
+if ! diagnosis="$(changelog_section_problem "$changelog" "$ver")"; then
+  echo "changelog-section: $changelog has no publishable section for '$ver'" >&2
+  printf 'changelog-section: %s\n' "$diagnosis" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+notes="$(changelog_section "$changelog" "$ver")"
+printf '%s\n' "$notes"
diff --git a/test/changelog-section.test.js b/test/changelog-section.test.js
index 18b64bb..e28da16 100644
--- a/test/changelog-section.test.js
+++ b/test/changelog-section.test.js
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ test('heading without a list entry is rejected as empty', () => {
 
     assert.equal(result.status, 1);
     assert.equal(result.stdout, '');
-    assert.match(result.stderr, /section for '2\.0\.0' has no changelog entries/);
+    assert.match(result.stderr, /section '2\.0\.0' has no entries/);
   });
 });
 
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ test('extraction stops before the next version heading', () => {
     const result = extract('2.0.0', changelog);
 
     assert.equal(result.status, 0, result.stderr);
-    assert.equal(result.stdout, '### Added\n\n- Current change.\n\n');
+    assert.equal(result.stdout, '### Added\n\n- Current change.\n');
     assert.doesNotMatch(result.stdout, /Older change/);
   });
 });