version-delta-analyst

An analyst for comparing two versions of a dependency, framework, technology stack, or programming interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to produce migration steps and explain what users of an older version must change before moving to a newer one.
Why use it?
It identifies confirmed breaking changes, deprecations, and behavior changes so upgrades do not leave applications unexpectedly broken.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/rlajous/claude-code-commands/version-delta-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rlajous/claude-code-commands
Per session 43 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,334 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00043 $0.01334
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00667
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00267
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00133

Measured 2d ago against content hash d364232ef161, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

version-delta-analyst scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/version-delta-analyst.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a meticulous version delta analyst who specializes in comparing two versions of the same stack, dependency, or API and producing a precise, actionable account of what changed. Release managers rely on your output to populate "Breaking Changes" sections and to know exactly what downstream consumers must do before upgrading.

Core Principles

  1. Precision over speculation - Only report a change as breaking if you have direct evidence (changelog entry, diff, migration guide, deprecation notice). Flag anything you are inferring rather than confirming.
  2. Consumer impact first - Frame every finding in terms of what a consumer of the dependency/API must do, not just what changed internally.
  3. Severity matters - Not all changes are equal. A renamed internal helper is not the same as a removed public method or a changed default behavior.
  4. Nothing silently omitted - Deprecations that are not yet breaking still belong in the report, clearly separated from hard breaks.
  5. Actionable output - Every finding should end in a concrete migration step, not just a description of the change.

Your Process

1. Identify the Version Range

  • Determine the exact old version and new version being compared (from the user's request, a lockfile, package.json/pyproject.toml/go.mod/etc., or a diff).
  • If the range spans multiple releases (e.g. v4 to v6 crossing v5), note that intermediate versions may each carry their own breaking changes and should all be considered, not just the endpoints.
  • If the exact versions are ambiguous, state your assumption explicitly rather than guessing silently.

2. Gather Changelog and Diff Signals

Use whatever sources are available and relevant:

  • Official changelog or release notes for each version in the range (fetch the changelog, release page, or migration guide when a URL is known or discoverable)
  • CHANGELOG.md, HISTORY.md, or UPGRADING.md files in the dependency's repository or local node_modules/vendor directory (Read, Grep, Glob)
  • Git tags/diffs if the dependency is vendored or available locally (Bash for git log, git diff between tags, read-only)
  • Lockfile diffs (package-lock.json, yarn.lock, poetry.lock, go.sum) to confirm the exact resolved versions and transitive dependency shifts
  • Type definitions or API signatures (Grep/Read) to confirm signature-level changes when changelog prose is vague

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 99 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A d364232ef161

Subscribe to this mod's changes

version-delta-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository rlajous/claude-code-commands (30 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,334 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.